Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century has been named the best film of the decade in a critics poll by the Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque . The movie that was censored in Thailand continues to be hailed by critics worldwide. In fact, three of Apichatpong's films are on the list. His 2004 Cannes Jury Prize-winning drama Tropical Malady is at No. 6, and 2003's Cannes Un...
"What difference do you think you can make, one single man in all this madness? If you die, it's gonna be for nothing. There's not some other world out there where everything's gonna be okay. There's just this world. Just...
Movie City News had this first and then The Playlist, etc. On top of which the video was posted two days ago. But I'm copy-pasting this 11.15 video of Tree of Life composer Alexandre Desplat talking about Terrence Malick's film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for a reason. I'm running it in order to address a quote from Desplat about the film, which deals with families and anguish and...
by Ryland Walker Knight —All things shining. Most of the week was spent not watching movies. But, as happens with an active calendar, the wait for the weekend brought me some special sights made richer by my recess. More Resnais, mostly, but also some time for some TV comedy. If you follow me on twitter ( @ryknight ), you know that I watched some Curb Your Enthusiasm earlier this week, but this...
At a masterclass at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Alexandre Desplat talks about working with Terrence Malick on 2010's Tree of Life . "The most important thing for me, for music to express," the composer, who's worked on nine features in 2009, says, "is the invisible, to show what is not in the film, whether outside the frame, or in the depth of field." He...
This week I'm on time and have more than just one movie to discuss as I finally finished watching both Terrence Malick and Paul Weitz's filmography, caught another Christmas film I had not seen and refreshed my memory on a Spielberg sci-fi. As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. [...]
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven is one of the most beautiful films ever made. There is something grandiose, epic, even melodramatic, about some of the vistas we see of the Texas panhandle in this film. Every corner of the...
There will always be glitz and always be glitter, but with jobs on the wane and the economy on the fritz, the mood of the moment has been a bit more restrained lately. And while we're tireless believers in the uplifting power of a brilliant slash of lipstick, now feels like the right time to celebrate one beauty who more often than not goes without. Sissy Spacek is the un-Hollywood face of Hollywood,...
from the Daily Telegraph 10 The Bridge on the River Kwai The lavish production that launched Lean into the big league is grand, grown-up and full of eye-popping set pieces and moral complexity. 9 The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich, 1967 Real-life former marine Lee Marvin has to mould 12 convicted murderers into a crack unit to assassinate a slew of SS officers. Entertaining sparring leads to a dark climax....
There's no denying it's been a strange year for movies. I've yet to see anything that felt like an obvious Academy favorite, and with the stunning announcement that there will be 10 Best Picture nominations instead of the usual five, speculation has been fierce as to who will make the cut. With Public ...
A scruffy-looking Brad Pitt grabs some Italian grub at Madeo in West Hollywood before heading over to his office on Monday (October 19). The 45-year-old actor and Sean Penn next star in the Terrence Malick-directed The Tree of Life but it won’t be ready for release this year. Bob Berney, the boss of distribution company Apparition, says [...]
This will be the final column in a series we have been enchanted by since Jon Michaud and Erin Overbey, The New Yorker 's head librarians, agreed to answer readers' questions about the magazine's past and present. Their daily investigations into the magazine's mysteries, and their preservation of its treasures, take all their time; that they so generously gave more of it to us, and that our association...
If I had to choose a movie to recommend to display Sam Shepard’s acting, it would be Days of Heaven , simply because it was written and directed by one of America’s great filmmakers, Terrence Malick. Shepard plays a wealthy landowner just prior to World War I and in this scene-- involving a young couple who have found themselves down on their luck-- the story is laid out pretty clear (I...
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