Above: The second in New Yorker's "American Premieres" series: April 6-May 10, 1967. In her author photo on the back jacket flap of her book, Toby Talbot is standing outside, leaning against some
Josef von Sternberg's The Saga of Anahatan announces itself as "a postscript" to the Asian portion of World War II, and for many years the film itself has been regarded as a footnote in Sternberg's own
The sure-to-be controversial centerpiece of sorts of this year's Film Comment Selects screenings is a three-film retrospective comprising fiction features by French director Phillipe Grandrieux. So exacting
Carrying "Marty's" Water: Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island opens in U.S. theaters nationwide today; online, the discussion of the film can be seen to be in danger of being eclipsed by discussions about
I can't recall precisely where and when I first saw Jean-Luc Godard's landmark 1964 picture Une femme mariée, but I know it wasn't until well after I had seen Alphaville, which came slightly after Une
What Does Film Preservation Mean To You?: As of this writing, Friday morning February 12, 2010, 8:50 a.m. Eastern time, we are a couple of days from a very ambitious online film event: "For The Love
"Life is disappointing." So goes the most common English translation of a famous line of dialogue in Ozu's Tokyo Story. As if to underscore that point, here is a British-released Region 2 Blu-ray disc
Called It, Bitches! (Or, Homage To Hammond and Wells): Here's the text of a mass e-mail I sent out yesterday. "I first saw the Miramax Blu-ray disc of Gangs of New York in the summer of 2008, I guess
The two disc set from Artificial Eye called "The Early Works of Eric Rohmer" features two of his Six Moral Tales, the shorts La boulangère de Monceau and La carriere de Suzanne. (In addition it contains
Movies I Would Have Seen At The Sundance Film Festival, With Bonus Feature Of Movies I Would Not Have Seen At The Sundance Film Festival, Had I Actually Gone To The Sundance Film Festival: Now that it
With Peter Biskind's new and largely unfortunate biography of Warren Beatty creating some re-evaluation of the star-producer-director-writer's career, the very-nearly age-old question is coming up again
Artistic Or Arty? And Is Sundance Splitting The Difference?: In a report, or think piece, or whatever/however the venerable institution's section editors are inclined to refer to such a mess of verbal