A TWO-PART SERIES ON STEVEN SODERBERGH'S CHE. *** CHE: PART TWO (GUERRILLA) Part Two of Che begins with images of Bolivian miners. These are not portraits of revolutionaries, but of the need for revolution
A TWO-PART SERIES ON STEVEN SODERBERGH'S CHE. *** CHE: PART ONE (THE ARGENTINE) What is a political image? How does it work, and what are the elements that make it work? This is a difficult enough question
A publicity still of Anna Baldaccini's breasts, from Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie) [Every Man for Himself], a film about capitalism, prostitution, objects, commerce, and making movies. Sauve
A winter melon, from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Sicilia! (1999); cinematography by William Lubtchansky, one of the great artists of cinema, who passed away this week at age 73.
"We're getting older. We've lived through a period that's ended. It's like dying a little bit." - Des We came to the city and we danced. There were late nights and stylish parties and too-eager girls
"Part of the ways we grow up is we sort of fail at being adults" - Zoe Kazan, on her role as Ivy in Bradley Rust Gray's 2009 film The Exploding Girl. "That sounded horrible... it came out totally wrong
Four critics discuss a seminal work of recent American independent filmmaking.
"I had a lover,I don't think I'll risk anotherThese days, these days.And if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songIt's just that I've been losingso long." - Nico, "These Days
The first in a continuing series on the films of Frederick Wiseman. "On the night of December 6th, police shot 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in cold blood in the Eksarhia district of Athens
Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
Above: Nights and Weekends' stars and filmmakers, Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig. Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's new film, Nights and Weekends, might be the most purely 'anthropological' of all the
Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations) adapts a posthumously published but unfinished Franz Kafka novel known as Amerika - a title given to it by Max Brod after Kafka