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...
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...
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.
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...
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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I find myself put to a certain degree of alienation when I watch films in English nowadays. I feel more comfortable watching films in either French or in my own native tongue, in Filipino. It is more engaging that way....
By Edmund Mullins The eponymous, middle-aged heroine (Kim Hye-ja) in Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother , looks puzzlingly at a youngster retouching photographs on a computer and remarks: “There’s nothing you can’t do these days.” In Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass , mercurial retiree Georges Palet (André Dussollier) spots the outline of a girl’s black panties showing...
It’s not every day we get actual for-real documentaries out here, but when Wyrd Studios sent me a copy of their upcoming newest, Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown, I figured it was about time we branched out a tick. This is a massive work about the life, times and career of widely known and widely read [...]
By Steven Boone Film Festivals come and go. What's important is what stays with you. I saw some things at this year's New York Film Festival. Moments out of time, as they say (and used to say in a provocative yearly Film Comment roundup). Here are some fragments that are still stuck to my shoe: *** To Die Like a Man An aging, ailing Argentine drag diva orders her pretty young boyfriend to reclaim her...
Catherine Deneuve and Heinz Bennent in Le dérnier metro (The last metro) from 1980 by legendary French director François Truffaut. The film, who was one of Truffauts last and also stars Gerard Depardieu, is screened at Vienna Café on Thursday. Vienna Café cooks up with a Truffaut movie this coming Thursday! One of film history´s most important directors didn't only...
Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog 1955) Directed by Alain Resnais 32 min.; France; Black and White / Color; Mono This weekend I screened a documentary that challenged me to ask questions about two of my favorite subjects: film and history. Nuit et brouillard (Night and Fog) is Alain Resnais'...
So many music videos and television commercials have ripped off the imagery of Alain Resnais's Last Year at Marienbad since its 1961 release that it makes perfect sense for someone to have created a music video consisting entirely of shots from the original film. The Asian singing voice reminds us of the affinities between Resnais's work and the work of Chinese director, Wong Kar-Wai ( 2046 ).
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