scanners (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Let us give thanks for Matt Zoller Seitz, who cooked up this luscious banquet -- entitled "Feast" -- for our delectation in this season of gustatory revelry. It is available on the Moving Image Source site in two flavors...
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
[This review is prompted by the latest discussion for The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club , which is about Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters this month. The discussion can be found at Krauthammer's blog Crips and Mutes ; go there to read along and join the discussion with your own thoughts.] The writer Yukio Mishima seemingly lived his life with a single possibility always...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
International News: Cologne site to focus on English-language pics -- Berlin-based Senator Ent. is opening an international production arm in Cologne to focus on English-language films.
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Midnight Eye... Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters . "...Paul Schrader is not Japanese and has not been a Japanese resident except whilst making the film, even though his sister-in-law, Chieko Schrader, both wrote the Japanese dialogue and directed the acting on set. The nationality of the director, although important, and apparently a matter of life or death to some far-right groups, is not everything....
watch movies online for free full movie downloads (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
#1 TUDOU : Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 #2 YOUKU : Part 1 , Part 2 #3 MOVSHARE : Full Movie #4 NOVAMOV : Full Movie Directed by Martin Scorsese Produced by Julia Phillips Michael Phillips Written by Paul Schrader Starring Robert De Niro Jodie Foster Albert Brooks Harvey Keitel Leonard Harris Peter Boyle Cybill Shepherd Music by Bernard Herrmann Cinematography Michael Chapman Editing by Tom Rolf...
Only The Cinema (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
[This review is posted in preparation for the latest discussion for The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club , which will be discussing Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters this month. Stop by Krauthammer's blog Crips and Mutes on November 23 to join the discussion.] Patriotism , the sole film made by famed Japanese author Yukio Mishima, is a weird artifact, a thirty-minute short...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
He's our Paul Schrader, on an idiosyncratic journey, so why haven't my US friends heard of Poliakoff? Whenever my American friends ask me to name a good English director they've not heard of, I always push them towards the work of Stephen Poliakoff , whose Glorious 39 arrives this week. And those who take up my recommendation/challenge usually come back about three weeks later, after a bracing immersion...
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The Thai-Hollywood romance Bitter/Sweet made its Asian premiere at the recent Mumbai Film Festival . Lekha Shankar was there and she sent this report. Story and photos by Lekha J. Shankar Bitter Sweet . the Thai-American film that was a surprisingly not selected for the Bangkok International Film Festival, was a big hit at the Mumbai Film Festival, where it held its Asian premiere last week. This year’s...
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It was the end of last year that we heard Paul Schrader was leaving Hollywood for Bollywood, and last month we had an update on the film project which saw him pairing with writer Mushtaq Shiekh to develop Xtrme City. Now though there's word from Schrader himself that this won't be his next film and it'll actually be a film in Mexico and it will be an action film called The Jesuit....Visit Filmstalker...
Music Maza (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Click above for event stills The curtain closed on the 11th edition of Mumbai Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) at Mumbai amidst the who's who of the of Indian and World cinema gracing the closure of the event with their presence. A glittering closing ceremony herald the closure of the 7 day Festival that laid out some real sumptuous fare for film-buffs in Mumbai....
Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It occurs to me that the next TOERIFC movie, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, is coming up soon but... I don't know when! And I cannot locate any e-mail anywhere for the mysterious Krauthammer who is the one covering it. So, Krauthammer, please comment below or e-mail me as to when the hell we're doing this thing. The 16th or the 23rd would work best. Let me know which is preferable. And until we...
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
For its Asian premiere, the Thai-Hollywood romance Bitter/Sweet has bypassed Thailand altogether. It was to have made its bow at the cancelled Phuket Film Festival back in June (fingers crossed that festival will happen in June 2010). Now the film's cast and crew are in Mumbai, where Lekha Shankar is following them. Story and photo by Lekha J Shankar The Thai-Hollywood film Bitter/Sweet , which was...
Moon in the Gutter (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
"They pit the lifers against the new boy and the young against the old. The black against the white. Everything they do is to keep us in our place." ***Dedicated to Richard Pryor ***
India eNews (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Hollywood screenplay writer-director Paul Schrader says 'Xtrme City', his first Indian collaboration dealing with the Mumbai mafia and slums, is also about romance, families and obligations.
rediff Movies (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
'Great western directors have been making films in India for the last 40 years,' Hollywood script Paul Schrader says.
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