We had the chance to talk to Revanche writer/director Götz Spielmann in anticipation of the theatrical release of his Oscar-nominated film this Friday, May 1. For more information about Revanche, read
Nice barks pass for bites. Revanche tops a small strand of recent movie maybe best comparable to a series of bricks: a brick wall. The style develops out of Fassbinder, maybe, Warhol, or Dreyer’s Gertrud
THE GALLOPING COW It's well known that Marlene Dietrich preferred to forget the silent films she made before Von Sternberg's The Blue Angel. She consistently claimed there had only been a few, that
Above: Lake Tahoe. Now that the 52nd edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival is well on its way, let us consider the boon and bane of the 75-word hold review capsule. There are 40
Above: Madhabi Mukherjee in The Coward. On the surface, Satyajit Ray's diptych, Kapurush-o-Mahapurush (The Coward and The Holy Man) seems an unlikely pairing: one, a stranded screenwriter's encounter
"Solipsism is great, everyone should try it." —"Philosophy student joke" cited by Grei Marcus in Mystery Train, 1975 There are so many contemporary cultural phenomena that this film is a precursor
Laird Cregar gloats and bloats in I Wake Up Screaming. Who would not?
There's a house in Fish Eyes, and a mirror which is later broken and reused, a somewhat junky motorcycle, a strangely new guitar, an underused washing bowl, and a small dining table with three chairs
Above: Sono Sion's Love Exposure. Two incidents in a friend’s life inspired Sono Sion to make Love Exposure, according to the Hong Kong International Film Festival catalogue. The first was in the
*** Three Monkeys is opening in New York City on May 1. Click here for playdates.
For a filmmaker of such particular aesthetic sensibilities, Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been compared to a surprising range of directors over the years. His first two films, The Small Town (1997) and Clouds
Francis Ford Coppola turned 70 this month, which would have been reason enough to resurrect this incredible poster for his little-known 1969 film The Rain People and to remember the good times before Jack