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.
At one point in Identification of a Woman, its film-director hero Niccolo is confronted with a demand that helps you understand one reason filmmakers the world over hate George Lucas: the character's nephew
TIFF08: Flying your way to consciousness
TIFF08: 35 shots of rum in honor of changing the world
I suppose that nobody was reading Sade anymore in 1965 Britain either (see Part One of "Sade in Cinema," below), because in Freddie Francis' The Skull of that year, a rather shady antique merchant has
TIFF08: Bombproof Illusions (“The Hurt Locker,” Bigelow, USA)