What words would you use to describe 1960s French pop sensation Gigi Gaston? With a growing cult discovering her through the dozens of photos, periodicals, songs and videos assembled by Josh Gosfield, some adjectives describing the chanteuse nicknamed the "Black...
Of all the strange characters and figures who drift through Jonathan Lethem's new novel Chronic City – which include an obsessive motormouth of an ex-rock critic, a giant tiger, a soul-redeeming pit bull, Marlon Brando and a cloud that hangs permanently over the place where the World Trade Center might have been – the strangest is New York City itself.
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959) Director: Francois Truffaut By Roderick Heath The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut’s debut film, is a work around which implicit ironies swirl. It looks as much backwards as it does forwards, to...
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, [...]
A couple of 5-star worthy TCM news items to bring across the bow of the Shelf, and more from around the Shelf neighborhood: You may already know that Turner Classic Movies is hosting their first annual TCM Classic Film Festival April of 2010 in Hollywood, CA. They will be presenting more than 50 classic films, and hosted by Robert Osborne- with many talks and special guests such as Leonard Maltin,...
ATLANTA, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- When Turner Classic Movies (TCM) launches the first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival in April 2010 in Hollywood, the spectacular events will include the world premiere of a newly restored edition of George Cukor's music-filled 1954 drama A Star is Born; the North American premiere of a restored version of Fritz Lang's 1927 science-fiction silent masterpiece Metropolis;...
Blu-Ray News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of Jean-Luc Godard's Une Femme Mariée as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 25th January 2010 priced at £24.99 RRP. Released in April 2009 on UK DVD, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film U...
Jon Meacham says Sarah Palin is "an heir to the Goldwater tradition," which is sort of like saying Michael Bay is an heir to the Jean-Luc Godard tradition: Sure, they're both movie directors, and both are known for their signature brands of impressionistic editing, but unless you're trying to make the inverse point that Godard was a brilliant and incredibly influential innovator and Bay is...
I was talking with my former film professor today, who I had for World Cinema I & II, Film Theory and Criticism, and my Advanced Film class on Jean-Luc Godard, and we started talking about what we thought the best films of the decade were.His pick for the #1 film of the 2000s was Guy Maddin's 2000 short, The Heart of the World. It can be seen in its entirety on YouTube. Check it out, it's pretty...
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...
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
I first met Mike Atherton (aka Sizemore) at a Tuttle event a few years back. I’d been following him online for a while and was interested to hear what he had to say about the future of voice. He let slip that he was trying to develop a Sci Fi series – I’m ashamed to [...]
Although its location inside the Forum des Halles is not the most desirable, Forum des Images is the gem of this underground maze. Nowhere else will you find such an enormously varied film agenda including 1920s silent film, contemporary art house cinema and everything in between. There is a strong emphasis on the French cinema tradition with regular [...]
The about-to-open Fantastic Mr. Fox shows that director Wes Anderson (a) remains one of the 21st Century's most assertive auteurist filmmakers, which is a glorious thing from a certain perspective, and yet (b) at the same time is trapped in this auteurist-mindset mode. A little more than two years ago I wrote a column, inspired by a dream, that suggested how Wes could free himself from the Andersonville...
Where can I watch whole movies online for free ? There’re only two stakes of stakes of entertainment world, TV shows and movies. Though people have always been crazy to watch TV shows, but craze for latest released Hollywood movies is always extraordinary! So, we’re maintaining this website in order to soothe your envy for the most popular Hollywood movies. This blog is specifically for ‘Les Plages...
Where can I watch whole movies online for free ? There’re only two stakes of stakes of entertainment world, TV shows and movies. Though people have always been crazy to watch TV shows, but craze for latest released Hollywood movies is always extraordinary! So, we’re maintaining this website in order to soothe your envy for the most popular Hollywood movies. This blog is specifically for ‘Les Plages...