Above: Jude Law and and Norah Jones. Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights, his first film in English and set in America, is kind of costume jewelry. A refresher, deep-breath after the fractured convolution
Above: Argento struts her stuff in the spatial distortion of Olivier Assayas' Boarding Gate. Olivier Assayas has made a movie out of a skeleton. In the spirit of the financial and creative constraints
From Oyu-sama (1951); featuring Kinuyo Tanaka and Nobuko Otowa; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi; cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa: *** In honor of The Masters of Cinema 2-disc release of Oyu-sama and Ugetsu
Above: Galina Vishnevskaya. Aleksandr Sokurov merges the focus of his trilogy of films on political power (such as The Sun) with those about the intensely chambered, loving intimacy between family members
Above: Detail from the French poster of Judex. George Franju treats the horrific and the strange with the approach of a filmmaker directing the most rote literary adaptation. This produces a slowness
1997:2007:Object: Trailers for Funny Games, directed by Michael Haneke.
Above: Emile Hirsch in the Wachowski brothers' new film, Speed Racer. It exists, but except for the occasionally adventurous commentary on a Michael Bay or Tony Scott film, one rarely sees anyone take
Above: Manoel de Oliveira with his wife, Maria Isabel. Punning easily off the title of a recent film of his, critics often speak of Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira’s work as talking pictures
Above: Edith Scob in Eyes Without a Face. Mostly one notices the things that Georges Franju doesn't do in Les Yeux sans visage. Conspicuously, he's not big on suspense, though the genre seems to mandate
With his dedication and fastidious coverage, Kevin Lee has rendered redundant most coverage on NYU's conference entitled "The Responsibility of Film Criticism." I urgently recommend anyone who cares about
Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog (Nora inu), 1949 Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai Assistant director: Ishiro Honda(moments without human presence)"I had Ishiro Honda do mainly second-unit shooting. Every day