Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —Bring yourself, roll Curb Your Enthusiasm , 7th Season [Larry David, 2009] Hard to beat "The Table Read," no doubt, among so many episodes this season, but, once again, LD proves how smart he is about people's petty shit and everybody's desire for a fairytale—despite knowing all too well that most things in life, as it turns out, aren't just jokes but...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Cinema Review: The latest film from Alain Resnais shows that the 87 year-old French director has lost none of his ability to make entertaining and challenging cinema. Noel Megahey reviews the film's recent French release.
Cinebeats (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In 1962 Alain Resnais’ film Last Year at Marienbad aka L’année dernière à Marienbad (1961) debuted in America and apparently made quite a splash with film critics as well as fashionistas. As the following fashion article from ‘62 makes clear, women were obviously inspired by the lovely Delphine Seyrig and attempted to mimic her look [...]
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) .. Bela Tarr The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Ivan the Terrible, Part Two (1946) .. Sergei M. Eisenstein The Mother and the Whore (1973) .. Jean Eustache The...
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974) .. Jacques Rivette Gertrud (1964) .. Carl Theodor Dreyer The Green Ray (1986) .. Eric Rohmer Chimes at Midnight (1965) .. Orson Welles Early Summer (1951) .. Yasujiro Ozu Late Spring (1949) .. Yasujiro Ozu Sans Soleil (1983) .. Chris Marker L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Thessaloniki, Greece - The northern Greek port city of Thessaloniki comes under the cinema world spotlight Friday as the International Film Festival (TIFF) gets underway for 10 days of movie screenings. More than 240 films from around the globe will ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Thessaloniki, Greece - The Greek northern port city of Thessaloniki comes under the cinema world spotlight Friday as the International Film Festival gets underway for 10 days of movie screenings. More than 240 films from around the globe will be reve...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
By Veronika Ferdman [ The Alain Resnais series is now playing at Berkeley’s BAMPFA. Click here for more information. ] Back in August, when I first heard about the re-envisioning/discontinuation of LACMA ’s film program, I met the news with a heavy heart and resounding guilt. I’d been living in Los Angeles for the good part of nearly two years, but due to my aversion or, um, blind...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight — Beaming and leaning Last Year at Marienbad [Alain Resnais, 1961] # I could watch this movie a million times. A lot funnier than I remembered, though I remembered it being funny, I think. Another reason to own a Blu-ray player, no doubt. I wrote a smarter, funnier response over here . City of Sadness [Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989] Not quite the emotional experience I'd expected,...
Talking Pictures (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Alongside the felt-free Alain Resnais retrospective, this month the Gene Siskel Film Center is re-running a substantial portion of “Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy,” which was a significant popular success last year for the State Street cinematheque. The...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight The day after I returned to the Bay Area, I saw the new PFA film calendar online and tweeted twice ( 1 , 2 ) about it. But that doesn't quite do justice to how cool a "Welcome Home!" these next two, final months of 2009 promise to be in my backyard cinematheque. A year ago I had quite a time covering the PFA, indulging in almost everything available by Jia Zhang-ke...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
International News: Fewer Greek films in lineup due to protest -- The Thessaloniki Film Festival opens next week with a bigger prize purse and a screening schedule that includes fewer local Greek films because of an ongoing dispute within the Greek film community.
The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Wes Anderson's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (which is, yes, fantastic) begins its platform release domestically two Fridays from now, but it's already out in the UK -- complete with a "Fantastic Mr. Fox Happy Meal" -- and the publicity mill is already grinding. One of the cooler interviews Anderson's done is with French director Arnaud Desplechin (recently ordained the future of cinema by...
Tenerife News Online (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
With works loaned by Tenerife Espacio de las Artes in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a major exhibition opened in the Fundación Pablo Picasso Museo Casa Natal in Málaga.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Eighty-one-year-old Agnès Varda, whose first film heralded the French New Wave, looks back at her life and career in a loose, whimsical and emotional documentary, "The Beaches of Agnès." The film is autobiographical but doesn't seem self-centered because so...
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