The Strange Loves of Teuvo Tulio
Spectacles of suffering and sex, Finnish director Teuvo Tulio’s films are so similar in construction and theme that they run together like one long soap opera composed of a scattershot jumble of bucking
February 2009
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Video of the day
Daniel KasmanExcerpt from Philippe Garrel's 1985 film, Elle a passé tant d'heures sous les sunlights..."Philippe Garrel: the grand poet of drowsiness, of just watching his characters in place, on the edge of humming
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The Forgotten: The Slaves of Solitude
David CairnsHOW TO FORGET The erosion of a reputation— The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) is an unusual film, but we'll come to that. It affected some people deeply in its day, and was remembered...for
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Berlinale 2009: Interview with Maren Ade
Kevin LeeOf the 30 films I watched at the 2009 Berlinale, my favorite was Everyone Else, the second feature by Maren Ade (Forest for the Trees). The film chronicles an idyllic vacation that slowly introduces cracks
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Your forking: "Birdsong" and "Waiting for Sancho"
Ryland Walker KnightAleatory and teleonomic, Birdsong bears a somewhat familiar resemblance to the Straub-Huillet school of adaptation and philosophy; however, Albert Serra plays a game of improvisation that branches
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "The Fan" (Preminger, 1949)
Glenn KennyLast year saw the publication of two worthwhile biographies of Otto Preminger, the individual tenors of which were well-described by their titles. Foster Hirsch's was called Otto Preminger: The Man Who
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RED or DEAD?
David CairnsFrom Aether, by Harry Kumel (Malpertuis) and Herman Wuyts. The RED car speeds through the dark tunnel. In the driver's seat — The Girl. The Girl arrives at her bf's block. He rushes to see her
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Into the Woods: A Rashomon Sequence Analysis
Pacze MojOne of the most-celebrated passages of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon is a sequence near the beginning of one of the main characters, the Woodcutter, walking through the woods, axe slung over shoulder, camera
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Let The Eagle Soar: "The Whole Shootin' Match" gets the DVD it deserves
Glenn KennyOur heroes, Frank (Davis) and Lloyd (Perryman). Two small-time guys with big dreams. How far back does that theme for a narrative go? All the way back to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, one guesses. Likely
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Déjà Vu
David PhelpsTurns out Zach was already here.For so many reasons, El is a wonderful movie, a dry-run for Buñuel’s masterpiece of on-again off-again passion and sense (Buñuel, like Lubitsch, is always wondering which
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... SAW THE ANGEL
Neil YoungAbove is a link to the first nine minutes of Patrick Bokanowski's The Angel (L'ange), a 70-minute French experimental film from 1982. Of course, YouTube isn't exactly "kind" to a film which
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The Forgotten: Youth and Beauty
David CairnsTHE WANDERING JULIEN During his American phase, exiled from France in the occupation, the great Julien Duvivier made an anthology film called Flesh and Fantasy (he seems to have had a particular affinity