Cineaste: Winter 2009
David Hudson"Its critical thunder eclipsed at the time by the more lushly funded Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey (both of which brokered in discomfiting speculation about mankind's origins and destiny
November 2009
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Manny Farber's Best Films Of 1951, #7: "The Day The Earth Stood Still," directed by Robert Wise
Glenn KennyGreetings, people of Earth. I mean, Manny Farber fans. Over at my blog Some Came Running, I've been looking at Farber's picks and positions on his best films of 1951 (the title of his piece for The Nation
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Warhol, Chaplin, Golden Horse Awards
David Hudson"Who shot Andy Warhol?" asks Pop!, a self-described "happening whodunit musical" at the Yale Repertory Theatre through December 19. Well, we know very well who, and actually, a more pertinent question
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"The Private Lives of Pippa Lee," "Home," "Ward No. 6"...
David Hudson"Rebecca Lee Miller's melodrama The Private Lives of Pippa Lee - which she based on her own novel - is told from the perspective of the title character, a former free spirit who suffers a spell of
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Home"
Adrian CurryWhat better title for Thanksgiving weekend? And what better film for the annual urban exodus than this superb debut feature by French-Swiss director Ursula Meier: a film which deals with both domesticity and
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Outside-In
David PhelpsWhenever the modern film-maker feels that his movie has taken too conventional a direction and is neglecting “art,” he need only jerk the Gimp-string, and–behold!–curious and exotic but “psychic”
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Issues: Adrian Martin in IndianAuteur, Christian Petzold in epd Film
David HudsonSomething to be thankful for while they're still around: Magazines. Of course, in one form or another, there will likely always be magazine-like entities with editors and contributors whose work will
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The Forgotten: Strausswitz
David CairnsOne of filmmaker Ken Russell's misfortunes is that while his work is always appreciated, it's always his early work. When he was first making a splash with features in the seventies, British critics
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Space for a Double Feature: "Fantastic Mr. Fox" & "A Christmas Carol"
Daniel KasmanIn 2009 two of America’s most distinctive and high-profile auteurs perfect their film worlds through the total freedom offered by animation.
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Liv Ullmann, François Truffaut and, well, "The Princess and the Frog"
David Hudson"Liv Ullmann wasn't Ingmar Bergman's muse, she was his partner in angst - a fellow weary existential traveler conspiring with him to invent some of the most psychologically complex men and women in
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"The Lovely Bones" in London
David Hudson"The Lovely Bones, which was given its premiere last night at the Royal Film Performance in the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, is a domestic tragedy that unfolds under
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The Trouble with Movies: II
Manny FarberMuch that is wrong with the movies can be blamed on what I call the terrain—the cashier in her glass house, the difficulty of reaching one’s seat, the location of the men’s room, the poor quality