Above: Yasujiro Shimazu's 1937 film, The Lights of Asakusa. Arriving for the last few days of this year’s Berlinale, at first I thought my being late to the party was why I didn’t find any new films
October Country follows a year in the life of the Moshers, residents of New York State's economically depressed Herkimer Valley. Co-director Donal Mosher escaped the region to pursue a career in photography
Above: the poster for Xie Jin's The Red Detachment of Women (1961). The 2009 New York Film Festival Masterworks series "(Re)Inventing China: A New Cinema for a New Society, 1949–1966" is the first major
The Lusty Men plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on August 5th. *** Homes for Strangers: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray is an on-going series of articles covering
An interview with the French director of 35 rhums.
Of the 30 films I watched at the 2009 Berlinale, my favorite was Everyone Else, the second feature by Maren Ade (Forest for the Trees). The film chronicles an idyllic vacation that slowly introduces cracks
Above: Claudia Llosa's Golden Bear winner, The Milk of Sorrow. By Comparison (dir. Harun Farocki) – A nearly wordless study of how bricks are manufactured in several countries suggests something
Above: Maren Abe's Everyone Else. Everyone Else (dir. Maren Ade) – Five years ago the Berlinale unveiled one of the most uplifting relationship films of the decade, Before Sunset; this year’
Above: A highlight of the 2009 Berlinale, So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain. Treeless Mountain (dir. So Yong Kim) - This premiered at Toronto last September, but so far I’ve yet to see a better
Sorry to be relatively absent from the conversation. While I've been occupied with other things, I've been reading these entries about distribution with fascination, and not entirely sure of how to respond
Hi everyone - sorry to be late to the party. I just got back from Japan, where I got to sample a bit of the local film culture: I sampled a morning double feature of vintage Nikkatsu new wave porn movies