SocialTech (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Kind of like high 5, but not. Thank you Mark Hawker for memeing me, & posting the rules (although feeling a bit Déjà vu on this one, wondering if black holes are really just meme collisions): Link your original tagger(s),...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
They don't make 'em like that anymore. That's the clear message from the poll by the influential journal , which invited 78 French critics and film historians to choose the all-time 100 best movies. All of the top 14 films on the chart were made before the 1960s.
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 [...]
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
L'Atalante was the first and only feature of director Jean Vigo, who died shortly after its completion at the age of 29. With this final film, Vigo applied the realist style of his earlier two short documentaries and his psuedo-documentary Zéro de conduite to a simple story of the young couple Jean (Jean Dasté) and Juliette (Dita Parlo) starting out their life as newlyweds on Jean's boat. The couple...
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
If you are weary with lists that rank Titanic or Harry Potter among the highest works of art, you may be comforted by a league table of great films that came out in France this week. A jury of 76...
Shooting Down Pictures (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
screened September 9, 2008 on DivX in Brooklyn, NY TSPDT rank #710 IMDb The crowning achievement in the mercurial career of Soviet director Boris Barnet, this simple story of a love triangle between two shipwrecked sailors and the beach blonde darling of a fishing village exemplifies a kind of film that could only have been made at [...]
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
We've got some 18,000 films (and counting) in our database, so next time you're stuck for something to watch on a Friday night, check out our list of reviews: by title, actor, director or star rating.
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Everyone knows the American Film Institute (AFI) for their many thought-provoking (albeit somewhat predictable) Top 100 lists, and the British Film Institute (BFI) handles a similar duty for British cinema. However, in celebration of their 75th Anniversary, the BFI tried something a bit different: they asked 75 people from various professions and backgrounds in the [...]
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
"The Class [site], a French high-school drama that emerged as the popular underdog winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, belongs to the largely inspirational tradition of the classroom movie," writes Dennis Lim in the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
During the filming of Badlands, almost everyone quit. Those who stayed found they'd made an American classic. says Ryan Gilbey
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
"A hybrid of city symphony, travelogue, nature film, and personal essay, flâneur films are often distinguished by their use of personal, idiosyncratic narration and a comparably intimate scale of production," writes Livia Bloom, who then focuses on films by...
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
For those of you in the New York area...a new not-for-profit cinema has opened in Harlem at the Maysles Institute (yes...that Maysles). I went there tonight for a (DVD) screening of Jean Vigo's first short film A Propos De Nice and Chantal Akerman's News From Home (recently released in Europe with English subtitles for the very first time...I might have to write about the film in the near future...)...
SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Have you heard that Heath Ledger has been posthumously nominated for an Oscar for THE DARK KNIGHT? No, really, it's so much a sure thing that the Academy already engraved his name on the statue. Probably.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Bruno Dumont's La Vie De Jesus (The Life of Jesus) as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 21st July 2008 priced at £19.99. Bruno Dumont's debut feature presents life's brutality and exhi...
Girish (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
I’m in the final week of classes this semester. Soon, summer will be here and along with it the chance to step up the pace of cinema-related activities—watching, reading, writing. I’m generally a DVD renter rather than buyer, but I just purchased a big batch from Europe to fire up as soon as the semester ends: -- Godard's Histoire(s) du cinema . I saw one of the earliest North American screenings that...
