SHADOWPLAY (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Agnes Varda and Chris Marker, the cat. Forgot to mention how much I enjoyed THE BEACHES OF AGNES, an autobiographical essay-film by Agnes Varda. An 18 Certificate warned us of “strong sexual imagery,” which turned out to be one shot of man with an erect penis. I almost asked for my money back, then remembered that [...]
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...
GULLGÅSA (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
----------------------- Space. Time. Memory. History. by Chris Marker "The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of...
The Great Swifty Speaketh! (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
I received a phone call yesterday morning from the CON-CAN Movie Festival . They told me that my experimental short, FLEETING IMAGES, had won the Grand Prix. I was shocked. The award ceremony will be next month, along with the film's Japanese premiere. In a year when one surprise after another had happened with my filmmaking career (LOVE SUICIDES getting into Paris Cinema Film Festival, KINGYO getting...
Torontoist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Urban Planner is Torontoist's guide to what's on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you'd like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you've got any—to events@torontoist.com . Still from Chris Marker's Sans Soleil , the opener for Jean-Pierre Gorin's month-long series on the essay film. Courtesy...
PORT (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Attributed to Danele da Volterra, after Michelangelo's "Last Judgment", 16th century Crocker Art Museum Curator William Braezeale will lecture tomorrow evening on Four Centuries of the Human Body: Old Master Drawings From the Crocker Art Museum , which is currently on view at Reed's Cooley Gallery. Gallery viewing hours will be extended for pre-lecture viewing. Curatorial lecture •...
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...
The Oxford Times | Blogs (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Coverage of the European features showing at the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival
Chained to the Cinémathèque (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
from The Owl's Legacy (Chris Marker, 1989) ( via )
The Age (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Visionary filmmaker Chris Marker is the subject of a retrospective. By Jake Wilson.
morphizm (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Comics are coming to life these days, on screens big and small. They’re pwning box offices in Hollywood and Flash-animated versions are ruling downloads in iTunes. So what to call them. Motion comics? Illustrated films? I asked the question aloud for Wired.com. Post-Apocalyptic Comic Godkiller Emerges as Illustrated Film Post-nuclear punk odyssey Godkiller is making the jump [...]
Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Post-nuclear punk odyssey Godkiller is making the jump from indie comic book to “illustrated film” with engaging animation that merges sequential art, 3-D CGI and motion graphics. Which is different from a motion comic because … wait, how is it different again? “It’s a purely aesthetic difference,” explained Matt Pizzolo, the Godkiller writer and filmmaker who [...]...
Lux Lotus (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
"When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done—people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway—in France we have Nathalie Sarraute—and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the...
IndieLondon (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
THERE are some filmmakers who you know work for the sheer joy of the art. One person who has consistently proven to be a part of this invaluable group is Agnes Varda. One of the lucky few to number among those visionaries of the French New Wave, and best known for her biggest contribution to the movement, Cleo from 9 to 5 , Varda has been consistently innovating and intriguing for half a century. Thus...
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rocky221 | 07/04/2009
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