ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
"During the '40s and '50s his jazzy movie commentaries were published in The Nation, The New Republic and Commentary. Wordplayful and alert to form, these essays struck readers attuned to Swing as a kind of literary Be-bop. He sang of undersung filmmakers like Howard Hawks and Don Siegel at the same time fledgling French critics Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard were doing same in Cahiers du Cinema."...
Filmmaker Magazine: Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
In Summer, 2005, the filmmaker Barbara Schock wrote a spirited piece for Filmmaker about studying film with critic and artist Manny Farber, who died on Tuesday. Mirroring Farber's rapid-fire thinking, Schock makes you feel like you're in his classroom as she writes about the man, his syllabus, and his teaching style. We've posted it in our Web Exclusives. Here's the intro: The phenomenal
One Plus One Equals Three (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
"Films are the only things by which to look inside people, and that's why people are so fond of movies and why they'll never die." An excerpt of the infamous ten minute tracking shot (and opening) for Jean-Luc Godard's 1967...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
"Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na" only strengthens the codes of patriarchy that have dominated the representation of masculine and feminine identity in films
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Paul Rennie explains the revolutionary origins of the posters of the Nouvelle vague
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Theatre's fall film series includes Iraq war documentaries, a restored Charlie Chaplin classic, environmental films, the epic Japanese anti-war trilogy "The Human Condition," and films by Jean-Luc God...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Elliott Gould Takes Brooklyn Tropic Thunder: Hollywood Will Gently Nibble Itself Vicky Cristina Barcelona: In Defense of Late Woody Allen Anti-Populism and Indie Antiquity: Interview with Whit Stillman Michael Moore Dares Obama to Denounce Him Eleanor Coppola’s Conceptual Art Rebellion 10 Best Animated Series Spun Off from Movies Woody Allen by Jean-Luc Godard Bigfoot Found? Did Harvey Weinstein Get...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Tropic Thunder and its fiasco retardo. The Clone Wars assaults weary Star Wars fans, but Karina's watch list saves the day.
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Filmed in 1986, Meetin’ WA is a short (26 minute) film that not many have seen. What you get is Godard, one of the driving forces behind La Nouvelle Vague, in conversation with Woody Allen. The trademark Godard approach to film, the expected dose of Woody Allen neuroses - they’re all there. Hat tip to [...] ShareThis
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
A production house refers to a company that is in charge of the development and production of films. In some cases the production house may also be responsible for raising the funds for the film. Sometimes they also sell the products to a film studio or present them in a theatrical venue. In these days we [...]
Big Screen Little Screen (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
The reclusive Whit Stillman on the free release of Metropolitan on Hulu.com, how to find that rare Last Days of Disco DVD on the cheap (Criterion edition someday'), Dancing Mood - an upcoming project set in 1960s Jamaica, an adaptation of Christopher Buckley’s Little Green Men, and living and working in Paris. Whit, come [...]
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
A wise man once said, "French films are... too French." American audiences often have preconceived notions about foreign films... that they're boring, nonsensical, and hoity-toity(a technical term, you can google it), but French films in particular may come across as more pretentious than a lifetime subscription to McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. ...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
Meetin’ WA (1986) by Tomsutpen Thanks to Matt Prigge, I’ve spent the past 26 minutes watching Meetin’ WA, a 26-minute film about Woody Allen, shot in New York by Jean-Luc Godard. A good portion of the short is dedicated to a fairly formal, almost junket-style interview, with Godard asking the questions, sometimes with the help of a [...]
FLiXER: Entertainment Industry News (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
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Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
My look at Jim McBride's audacious 1983 remake of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless can now be read at The Amplifier for those interested. The film, which I admire very much, was a failure at the time but can now be seen clearly as a precursor to Tarantino among several other modern genre mixing directors. Tarantino has in fact named McBride's undervalued work starring Richard Gere and Valerie Kaprisky...
