The rest of it may be a novelization in action, but The Dark Knight has at least one image, one shot for the ages. Heck, it's so good it is even in the trailer, but here's a description anyway: Heath
It is a source of no small frustration to the DVD-collecting cinephile that the work of American director Budd Boetticher is so sparsely represented on disc. A straightforward, vivid storyteller with a
In a pivotal encounter during Children of the Wind, the Aoyamas' rambunctious younger son, Sanpei (Jun Yokoyama, credited in the film as Bakudan kozo, or "explosive boy"), having been sent to live temporarily
Above: Michelle Morgan (center left) leads a motley group of film students during a zombie outbreak. Yet another very good American movie that vanished from theaters in the blink of an eye but will
People around New York City should take note of the new policy being followed by the Apollo Theatre (Forty-second Street, west of Broadway); and people through the country should take note of the way this
I haven't seen any movies of Japanese director Kinoshita Keisuke until Film Forum screened his 1961 film, the brutally ironically titled Immortal Love, in their Tetsuya Nakadai series. Best known in the
The greatest of Frank Borzage’s silent films, The River (1929) gave Hollywood’s foremost exponent of melodrama (I realize that I am slighting Griffith - I suspect that Borzage would not have approved of
Above: The "mad detective," played by Lau Chin-wa, and in the typically warped side of the frame, rookie cop Andy On. After so many stoical, staunchly confident films from Johnnie To, it's always refreshing
Above: Jacques Nolot (left). Except for a terrible moment, waking up early in the morning retching, popping pills, pounding coffee, unable to write and very unhappy, the solitary life of 60-year old
Wonderful Town, the promising first film by Aditya Assarat, has a great amount of outer spirit, though what it truly lacks is an expressive inner life. Under the clear influence of Tsai Ming-Liang and
This may seem like faint praise, but about the highest compliment I can give Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight right now is to say that there were many long stretches during which I didn’t even realize
It's often forgotten from the vantage point of the 'cinephile,' but the intersection of art and cinema takes different forms. "Art cinema," as we frequently think of it, is a distillation of cinematic