The Forgotten: Go Ask Alice
David CairnsSébastien Japrisot adapts David Goodis for a late René Clément film starring Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray and Lea Massari.
Criticism
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Berlinale 2013. Impressions: B-Sides
Adam CookSome reflections on the Berlinale’s retrospective programming, Leviathan inspired art installations, & thoughts on a few more films.
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Deadpan in Nulltown
B. Kite and Bill KrohnRichard Fleischer’s Follow Me Quietly (1948) holds at its center an image so odd and resonant that its phantoms crowd the surface.
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Berlinale 2013. Impressions #5
Adam CookForget the awards: here are takes on Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess & Jacques Doillon’s Love Battles.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Lady for a Day” and the Posters of 1933
Adrian CurryA look at the posters for “Hollywood’s Naughtiest, Bawdiest Year.”
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Echoes #12
David PhelpsHeld at gunpoint in 1986.
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Berlinale 2013. Impressions #4
Adam CookJafar Panahi’s second “not-a-film,” the latest from Hong Sang-soo, and Richard Linklater’s conclusion to the “Before” trilogy.
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Berlinale 2013. Impressions #3
Adam CookThoughts on the latest from James Benning, the Sensory Ethnography Lab, and Dumont & Binoche’s Camille Claudel, 1915.
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The Forgotten: I Never Play Over Twenty-Eight
David CairnsKen Hughes directs octogenarian sex goddess Mae West in this attempt to transplant pre-Code spiciness to the seventies. Beware.
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Berlinale 2013. Impressions #2
Adam CookBaumbach & Gerwig with Frances Ha, the life of a divorcee in Gloria and Denis Côté returns to narrative with Vic+Flo Saw a Bear.
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Berlinale 2013. Impressions #1
Adam CookOur first dispatch from the German capital includes takes on Wong Kar-wai’s latest and the conclusion of Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy.
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Notebook Reviews: Raúl Ruiz's "Night Across the Street"
Daniel KasmanSupposedly the final film for the Chilean master—and a rare Chilean production too—sees a man preparing for retirement and his death.