By way of getting to the film, it seems safe to say that the influence of American B-movie maverick Jacques Tourneur may now be dormant in the U.S. but it is alive and kicking in Europe. First Pedro Costa
From La Belle noiseuse (1991); featuring Emmanuelle Béart; directed by Jacques Rivette; cinematography by William Lubtchansky:...pan up to reveal...
Above: Tanaka Kinuyo as the eponymous character in Mizoguchi's Oyu-sama. Oyu-sama, Kenji Mizoguchi's 1951 film, comes between such masterpieces as The Life of Oharu (1952) and The Love of Sumako the
The films of Georges Franju are full of sleepwalkers, automatons, and prisoners.
From La Belle noiseuse (1991); featuring Emmanuelle Béart; directed by Jacques Rivette; cinematography by William Lubtchansky: What is it about Rivette and doors? Come to think about it, what is it
Top: A cow to be slaughtered in Blood of the Beasts (Franju, 1949). Above: Edith Scob, at her father's masked ball in Judex (Franju, 1963). Text: Excerpt from English narration of Blood of the
An interview by Michael Guillén with Portuguese director Pedro Costa over at GreenCine, entitled Pedro Costa: "I Have to Risk Each Shot". It is a fantastic interview covering a wide range of subjects
Above: Fang Song and Simon Iteanu in Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon. Hou Hsiao-hsien once again travels abroad after his 2005 film Café Lumière, this time to France to pay homage to Albert
Above: Jude Law and and Norah Jones. Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights, his first film in English and set in America, is kind of costume jewelry. A refresher, deep-breath after the fractured convolution
Above: Argento struts her stuff in the spatial distortion of Olivier Assayas' Boarding Gate. Olivier Assayas has made a movie out of a skeleton. In the spirit of the financial and creative constraints
From Oyu-sama (1951); featuring Kinuyo Tanaka and Nobuko Otowa; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi; cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa: *** In honor of The Masters of Cinema 2-disc release of Oyu-sama and Ugetsu