Video of the day: "Socialisme", the new Godard
Daniel Kasman"Socialisme", directed by Jean-Luc Godard
May 2009
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Devils"
Adrian CurryA gorgeous French poster for Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece The Devils.
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At the cinematheque: "Seemabaddha" (Ray, 1971)
AcquarelloWhile the other two films in Satyajit Ray's Calcutta trilogy - Pratidwandi (The Adversary) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman)—show the bleak prospects of college-educated young men struggling to carve out
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Cannes 2009 Sneak Peak: Image of the day (and week and month)
Daniel KasmanAlain Resnais scouting his new film Les herbes folles in 2008 at the age of 86. Photo by Francine Deroudille.
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The Forgotten: Carrot-top
David CairnsJulien Duvivier's films, currently being retrospected at New York's Museum of Modern Art, form such a rich, neglected body of work, that seeing several at a time is like turning a familiar street corner
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At the cinematheque: "Cluny Brown" (Lubitsch, 1946)
Dan SallittAbove: Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer in Ernst Lubitsch's Cluny Brown (1946). If Hollywood has made another film with as detailed a depiction of class difference and class coexistence as Cluny Brown
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SFIFF52: Innocence Unprotected
Duc Joie TranAbove: Philippe Falardeau's It's Not Me, I Swear. Judging a festival by its trailer—a dictum noticeably absent whenever we speak about this or that festival from Trendytown USA to the reliable global
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Silence" (Shinoda, 1971)
Glenn KennyThe recent news that Martin Scorsese's next film would be an adaptation of Shushaku Endo's novel Chinmoku (Silence in English translation) was most welcome for many fans of the director. There's a general
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Image of the day: Thugs With Ugly Mugs 3
David CairnsEmile Rameau in The Conspirators (1944), as "Professor Wingleigh of Zurich, an authority on butterflies and sudden death."
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What is the 21st Century?: Uncertain Times
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the weekly column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: A good print of Rossellini's Vanina Vanini? An overcast Friday
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Tribeca 2009: "The Girlfriend Experience" (Soderbergh, USA)
Daniel KasmanAbove: What is Sasha Grey thinking and feeling? The Girlfriend Experience feels as arbitrary a film as one made by a director who can make films whenever he wants. So, more power to Steven Soderbergh
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Tribeca 2009 Round-up
Daniel KasmanWe had curtailed coverage of Tribeca this year I admit, but the films caught were all very interesting. And, for once, it seems likely that everything seen will eventually see a theatrical release.