Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Film Festivals: Topper sees creative answers in global crises -- At a time when the world is going through a historic fiscal crisis, cinema has a key role to play, Thessaloniki fest director Despina Mouzaki says.
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By Dan Callahan "I'm not an apparition," insists Delphine Seyrig in Truffaut's Stolen Kisses (1968), "I'm a woman." While we would like to give her the benefit of the doubt, there can be no denying that Seyrig is the most ghostly of actresses, haunting her own movies with a druggy, dazed quality over which she placed a severe intellectual patina. Something as simple as a different...
Simon King's written outpourings (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Recently, cinema has become one of my main passions. I'm gradually becoming more of a cinephile, but I'm still not all the way there, so this list is far from complete or definite. This list, I must make clear, is a personal selection from what I've encountered and what I've liked the most. Other directors I will be looking into this year are Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky, Jean Renoir, Sam Fuller, Eisenstein,...
The Ministry Of Truth (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
There is a commonly held assumption that the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) movement was a left-wing, politically-charged attempt to destroy the film-making establishment and re-write the rules of Cinema for a new generation – a sort of cinematic punk rock, if you like. It is easy to deduce, from the protagonists’ involvement in the [...]
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
France Feature Film Original Title: Le crime de Monsieur Lange Director: Jean Renoir Writers: Jean Renoir, Jacques Prévert, Jean Castanyer Cinematographer: Jean Bachelet Composers: Joseph Kosma, Jean Wiener Cast: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque, Odette Talazac, Henri Guisol, Maurice Baquet, J.B. Brunius A workers cooperative revives a flagging publishing...
The Quietus | All Articles (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
"I'm playing the part of a little old lady," says Agnés Varda, walking backwards against the sunset on one of the many beaches to feature in her latest, autobiographical film, Les Plages D'Agnés. I wonder what part she is playing for me today as she bumbles about the offices of her U.K. distributers, Artificial Eye, poking into different rooms, smiling amiably. "I'm not...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant films Reveron and Araya will be a landmark in cinema history.
The Purse Blog (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Swoon. Is it just me, or was last night’s episode GREAT ? All in one hour of television, we got a crazy Tyra Banks cameo, the return of the “I’m Chuck Bass” line, references to Heart of Darkness , Jean Renoir’s World War II…
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight I'd planned on letting that last widget post lapse past the page, but, well, this early AM I got excited about some more recommendations from my daily dials. The coding on the widget is a little wonky, but, still, I'm updating it. Here goes. Most immediate would be that I just finished watching Criterion's Renoir box set of films from the 1950s, Stage and Spectacle , and I cannot...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight — Where do you heal? Where could he be? Elena and her men [Jean Renoir, 1956] It's Ingrid's show, no doubt, but I was more taken by the sly Mel Ferrer and his lanky-limber rogue. That said, it's a fine metaphor for the star system, and Ingrid's go-anywhere constitution; she's great at aloof twined with cunning. Renoir says he had to improvise the whole thing, for the most...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —Money talks Ashes of Time Redux [WKW, 1994/2008] Started this a couple nights prior but was gladly interrupted by two fun-loving phone calls. Started over, fitting WKW, and felt the slow-mo, loss-hardened fronts enough; the fights were fun flurries of blur and I dig the literal adventure of perception with "the good" Tony Leung, but I get why, um, certain friends...
The Computers Blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
By Kitty Patton Look below if you came to see motion picture reviews. If you want to download these movies do some searches to find what is out there. Film download searches will include "Online Movies Tv", "Best Movie Downloads", and "Burn DVDs". The Good Humor Man: Wide dry comedy in reference to ice cream dealer Cars On, who runs into a crime syndacate. Cast includes...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Some might argue that films maudit don't get much more maudit than Jean Renoir's very strange 1947 The Woman on the Beach, his last Hollywood film. Joan Bennett (that's her above) in the title role gives the film a peculiarly...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
lucubration \loo-kyoo-BRAY-shun; loo-kuh-\, noun: The act of studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition. Lucubration comes from Latin lucubratus, past participle of lucubrare, "to work by night, composed at night (as by candlelight)," ultimately connected...
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —Enter the void. Nickelodeon [Peter Bogdanovich, 1976] Before I fell asleep I was enjoying this goofy run-on sentence of an homage. It's got the right tone, even if, Barry Lyndon aside, I often feel Ryan O'Neal is a rather tone-deaf performer. I probably won't make an extreme effort to see the second hour. Le Pont du Nord [Jacques Rivette, 1981] I've been watching this...
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