Above: the notorious unused pie fight finale to Dr. Strangelove. As pretty much every film buff knows by now, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 nuke satire Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Darren Hughes of Long Pauses does all Toronto Int'l Film Festival attendees a service each year by running 1st Thursday: A Guide to TIFF. If you are intending on attending the festival this year, or are
Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin continues his journey into the avant-garde world of Five Dedicated to Ozu, his 2003 excursion into long take minimalist cinematography. Ostensibly the film presents shots of
As triumph-of-the-human-spirit tales go, Kon Ichikawa's 1963 Taiheiyo hitori-botchi (distributed in some countries as My Enemy The Sea; the producers of this Eureka!/Masters of Cinema DVD editon go with
What do we do with Tony Scott’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, another version of John Godey’s book (also adapted in 1974 by Joseph Sargent), and an old-school picture of conventional urban crime in an
Linked by their concerns with sexuality (or, more directly, perversion), if not by the near simultaneous release of several of their films on DVD in the US, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura belong to
Opening today and running through July 5th is the New York Asian Film Festival, and the benefit this cinephile summer tentpole gives to the city’s film scene can be seen in two of its hardest hitting
If you look at the website gigposters.com you’ll see an incredible wealth of talent pored into the world of indie rock poster design and I often wonder why we don’t see more of that in movie posters
Filmmakers Of The Week: Mohsen Mahkmalbaf and Marjane Satrapi. Neither has a current film to promote. The Harmlessly Frivolous Reason To Join Twitter Of The Week: Nicer Film Titles, illuminated here
"There are no friends anymore." In August 1967, filmmaker Richard Lester's chauffeur called at the home of playwright Joe Orton to collect him for a script conference about a Rolling Stones
You may be wary of fallen starsThey're always poking around in the darkThe aerial view of a dying manScreaming out "Can you help me, invisible man?"—The Auteurs, Fear of Flying (1996)"[As] long
Finally...a motion picture that blows the lid off...BOWLING! No kidding. At one point in this droll exploitation "documentary," a made-in-Britain variant of the various "Mondo" films that had been sweeping