Girish (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
This week I drove up to George Eastman House to catch Jean Eustache’s Mes Petites Amoureuses (1974), which turned out to be one of the greatest coming-of-age films I’ve ever seen. This generally obscure movie deserves to be universally known. The narrative events in the film are extremely small-scale and modest, but Eustache gives them great weight by using them as vehicles for vivid sensations and...
Something Old, Nothing New (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
With all the Irwin Allen mockery, there's a semi-serious question that arises when you look at his filmography: why do producers make such bad directors? Allen started as a producer, moved into directing, found success when he stopped directing and stuck to producing, and finally humiliated himself completely when he returned to directing for The Swarm and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure . There's a...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 01/20/2008
From the Guy de Maupassant story about a soldier returning from the war without prospects and being persuaded to capitalise on his good looks to get ahead. CAST: George Sanders, Angela Lansbury DIR: Albert Lewin (1947)
Michael Sporn Animation - Splog (Free subscription) | 12/21/2007
- Here’s your chance to see some great and important animated features on the big screen. In January, the Museum of Modern Art will present a month of animation from its collection, ranging from early shorts (including three Dave Fleischer Popeye shorts from 1936, ‘37 and ‘39) to four features including 2005’s Wallace & Gromit [...]
