Daily Briefing. Rasoulof, Lynch, Tarr, Hitchcock, Wellman
David HudsonAlso: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”
Also: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”
One of the highlights in the Forum lineup this year.
On the week François Truffaut would have turned 80, we look back at the posters for his first film.
Also: Another big round of projects in the works announced in Berlin.
Notes, followed by a roundup, on the festival’s Opening Night film.
Also: Jason Reitman stages a reading of Reservoir Dogs with an all-black cast.
Three notes on Wings and William Wellman’s home movies.
In Jacques Feyder’s weird pacifist fantasy, a Dutch town conquers by surrendering, politically and romantically.
He upheld “the tradition of orchestral film music at a time when synthesizers and pop-song montages threatened to put it out of business.”
Films by Petzold, the Tavianis, Chavarrías, Schmid and Wang.
Also: Look who’s tumbling.
Also: Light Industry screenings, contemporary art and film in Stockholm and new projects in the works.