The opening moments of Slumdog Millionaire confirm Danny Boyle is behind the camera: a totally artificial golden light bathing god knows what for a peaceful moment, and then the sudden eruption of violence
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Arnaud Desplechin's latest, A Christmas Tale, has a lot of things going for it. Its title is not one of them. While the film's feel-good holiday-time title is an ironic, purposeful misnomer, it failed
You have got to give the James Bond franchise one thing—despite the popcorn nature of the series, each installment automatically brings up issues of global war and terrorism. Whether it was the easy dismissal
The movies of Nagisa Oshima famously change shape—genre and style—from one to the next, but perhaps most surprising inside this accepted generalization is when they change inside themselves. Sing a Sing
"You may notice some technical inadequacies in some of my performances—a hesitant beat here, a dodgy note there—these are of course entirely deliberate and reproduced as evidence of my almost painful sincerity
After the New York Film Festival, with its Views from the Avant-Garde and Nagisa Oshima sidebar, I haven’t had much time to see, let alone write-up films seen over the last couple weeks. Instead of
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson, 1956)Artificial Eye DVD Lancelot du Lac (Robert Bresson, 1974)Artificial Eye DVD Subtleties in 2 films by Robert Bresson, with moments of darkness
Because of the abundandt entertainment value of so many of his films—and, among a few other things, the fact that he deigned to perform in a film for Steven Spielberg—there's a tendency among some cinephiles
From Dr. No (1962); featuring Anthony Dawson; directed by Terence Young; production design by Ken Adam; cinematography by Ted Moore.
February, 1987: The golden age of the Italian horror picture, which arguably began with Bava's Black Sunday and was sustained through the '70s and into the '80s by Dario Argento and associates, is on
Tracking shots betray morality; framing’s political. Of course, RR, James Benning’s single-take compendium of 40 or 50 trains passing through a still-frame, is beautiful. Like his last films