Starting Friday, February 1 and continuing through the 10th, the Anthology Film Archives will be staging a retrospective on the work of French auteur and former Cahiers du cinéma critic Olivier Assayas
Above: Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasilu.Although The Death of Mr. Lazarescu did not play in official competition at Cannes, it still seems strange that it is fellow Romanian Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months
For a fan of Anthony Mann, but no scholar on the auteur, the move of the great American filmmaker from noirs through Westerns to something as utterly massive as El Cid (1961) is a bit hard to believe
Darren Hughes’ website Long Pauses has for many years been a fresh resource for criticism of art house and classic films. It is always welcome when an astute writer branches out, and along with a beautiful
Above: Ishihara Yujiro. © 1964 Nikkatsu Corporation Masuda’s other film I saw in the Japan Society’s fascinating series NO BORDERS, NO LIMITS: 1960s Nikkatsu Action Cinema, 1967’s Like a Shooting Star
Courtesy of the Criterion CollectionOf the many excellent releases coming soon from the Criterion Collection, I’m particularly excited about these upcoming special editions. Allen Baron’s rugged, spare
In honor of its recent screening at the Sundance Film Festival, here is, to my mind, the finest poster released in 2007. It is the poster for Michael Haneke’s Funny Games U.S., a shot-for-shot remake of
From El Cid; directed by Anthony Mann; editing by Robert Lawrence; cinematography by Robert Krasker:Shot……and nearly three hours later, its reverse.
The new trailer for Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park. Click the image above to select viewing resolution.
Above: Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, pondering the mysteries of time. Everything is futile in Francis Ford Coppola’s first movie in over a decade, Youth Without Youth, a sort of Indiana Jones meets pulp
Above: Han Sangming gazes at the immensity of the gorge in Still Life. With not a little irony Jia Zhangke staged the drama of his film The World amongst replicas of famous buildings from around the globe
Above: Ventura (right) amongst the shadows, peeling walls, and a rare friend in Colossal Youth.David Pratt-Robson’s website videoarcadia is full with varied, scholarly, passionate, and deeply insightful