Waggish (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Childhood, says the Children's Encyclopaedia, is a time of innocent joy, to be spent in the meadows amid buttercups and bunny-rabbits or at the hearthside absorbed in a storybook. It is a vision of childhood utterly alien to him. Nothing he experiences in Worcester, at home or at school, leads him to think that childhood is anything but a time of gritting the teeth and enduring. J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood...
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 Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
French Film Festival , Nationwide Another cross-channel package of established talents and rising stars, including this year's hot tip A Prophet, fresh from its Best Film triumph at the London Film Festival. Other recent features include Versailles, (with a heartrending performance from the late Guillaume Dépardieu), outsider artist biopic Séraphine, Agatha Christie sleuth caper Crime...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
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...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 08/29/2009
Recently I had the chance to watch and write on a terrific new modern noir starring Tom Sizemore and Sasha Alexander called The Last Lullaby . This incredibly effective film is the first feature from a very talented young filmmaker named Jeffrey Goodman. Jeffrey has been gracious enough to take part in this Question and Answer session for Moon in the Gutter that I hope everyone will read and enjoy....
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Answering Cinema Steve Rybin is a film scholar and writer living in Atlanta , Georgia . He is the author of The Cinema of Michael Mann and a forthcoming volume on the films of Nicholas Ray. The Apartment (1960) _Billy Wilder L'Atalante (1934) _Jean Vigo Barry Lyndon (1975) _Stanley Kubrick Bonjour Tristesse (1958) _Otto Preminger California Split (1974) _Robert Altman Céline and Julie Go Boating...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Film Festivals: Key screenings and events -- Paris Cinema Intl. Film Festival highlights
DaveKehr.com (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Thanks to Zeitgeist Films and The Film Desk, two more films by Philippe Garrel have recieved subtitled releases: his 1981 “Emergency Kisses” (”Les Baisers de secours”) and his 1991 “I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar” (”J’entends plus la guitar”). Both are highly, almost intimidatingly personal “diary” films that deal, in fictionalized...
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch Jean Eustache (November 30, 1938 - November 3, 1981) was a French filmmaker best known for his 1973 film The Mother and the Whore and his various short subjects such as Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch[1]. Jean Eustache directed just two feature films he would make before [...]
FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma have compiled a list of the 100 greatest films of all time. It is published this month in an illustrated book and was put together by 76 French film directors, critics and industry executives. Here are the 100 films: Citizen Kane - Orson Welles The Night of the Hunter - Charles Laughton The Rules of [...]
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
by Ryland Walker Knight [Note the words at the bottom of the frame] This Saturday, the 4th, sees the beginning of PFA's Jean Eustache series, No Wave , with a screening of his most famous film, an epic of hurt, or so I'm told, called La Maman et la putain . Back in February, on his podcast, Mick LaSalle recommended the Bay Area go see the film and the theatre sold out. I don't think this blog post...
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore has cast a long shadow over our movies since its 1973 release, but because it screens infrequently and because it remains unavailable on DVD (second-hand VHS copies start at $47.95 on Amazon) many young filmgoers know of it solely from a poster belonging to Jesse Eisenberg's character in The Squid and the Whale . The ne plus ultra of talky French movies, The...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
"With its jarring formal economy in the service of a classic melodramatic tale of two brothers torn apart by a faithless woman, the film appears like some long-lost bridge between the radical end of American B-movie production (especially Sam...
Limitless Cinema (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
FAVORITE SONG YOUR MIND IS TWISTED (THE CUBEGUYS REMIX) – Greg, Jeroenski & Roog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT4k_44Oikk Thanks to Parichaba who recommends me this song. ------------------------------------- This is my comment in Girish Shambu's blog: http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2008/04/dvds.html I’m sorry that some of the following DVDs are not region-1. I just knew from Wise...
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...
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