Above: A digital image of Ana Moreira in The Northern Land. It looks like film festivals are finally starting to show digitally shot films (or shall we more correctly call them videos?) digitally, that
It used to be that Dario Argento films were jam-packed with expressive details. Beginning in the early 1970s, alongside a penchant for intense, deliberate, graphic orgasms of violence, his reputation
Hats off to the New York Film Festival, they’ve actually programmed a short film that I want to see! Chinese director Jia Zhangke, whose feature documentary hybrid what’s-it 24 City (reviewed from the
The most pertinent feature of the recent Eureka!/Masters of Cinema edition of Bruno Dumont's 1997 feature debut La vie de Jesus is a spanking new anamorphic and progressive scan encode. In case
Above: Sally Hawkins, the princess and the gypsy of Happy-Go-Lucky.On the outskirts of Mike Leigh’s blissful Happy-Go-Lucky lie child abusers, stalkers and supremacists, homeless, hairy troglodytes
Above: South Korean director Hong Sang-soo's masterful, mournful sex comedy, Night and Day, reviewed from Berlin. Many films in the 2008 New York Film Festival have been covered on the Notebook in one
The Corto Cortissimo competition at the 65th Venice Film Festival early this September showcased twenty shorts over three days - some from starting filmmakers with the breeding of prestigious film schools
The Auteurs regular contributor Dave McDougall takes a personal look at David Lean's classic Brief Encounter not through the movie itself, but the experience of a transient movie theater romance in A Brief
Above: A room of fools: Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand as objects of worthy derision. Snark maybe is as snark does, but aren’t there cases where snark is justified? Anyone expecting Joel and Ethan
Hot off the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, we'll be returning home to New York to cover our local mega-goliath of select and prestige international films. The line-up is as strong as it always
My favorite films of the festival, in order of preference:01 Horizontal Boundries (O'Neill) 02 Winter and Saraband (Dorsky) 03 Liverpool (Alonso) 04 35 Rhums (Denis) 05 The Sky Crawlers (Oshii) 06
Jean-Luc Godard's trailer for the 2008 Viennale can be found here. Many thanks to Andy Rector for the heads-up.