Johnny Guitar plays as part of a 15-film Nicholas Ray retrospective at New York’s Film Forum on July 26th & 27th. *** "I searched for you in every man I met." "You got nothin’ to tell me ‘cause
The dream of the lightweight camera is to be able to go anywhere and capture any image. Of all the dreams films and film production have provided us with, it's the one we've followed through the least
Movie Poster of the Week was on hiatus for the last month as I scoured Europe for inspiration. In a film poster store in Paris I picked up an out of print book of Les affiches de la nouvelle vague which
Bigger than Life plays as part of a 15-film series at New York’s Film Forum on July 24th & 25th. *** In a Lonely Place and Bigger than Life (1956) are the only two movies in Nicholas Ray’s body
Above: Jean-Luc Godard's Made in USA, which taught Michael Bay. Will You Join Our Crusade: I know you generally need three examples if you're going to cite an emerging trend, but what if you want to
Above: Gloria Grahame and Humphrey Bogart. I was born when she kissed me, I died when she left me, I lived a few weeks when she loved me. In a Lonely Place (1950) is a film noir that doesn’t care about
THE SPY WITH MY FACE "He had the good fortune to be a bad author with an imagination reveling in gross sensation and sex - a natural ally for the Nazis, for whom he was to write, in 1933, the official
Poetry of the Mystic High school peer of Joseph Losey. Student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Protégé of Elia Kazan. One-time pal of Manny Farber. Radio propagandist for the OSS. Director of some of the strangest
Three critics discuss Michael Mann’s most recent digital criminal cinema extravaganza.
Going by the sort of things that exemplary archivists Lobster Films and its American kind-of-partner Flicker Alley, as well as some other concerns, have been releasing on DVD in recent years, one gets
Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Here's a little secret about Josef von Sternberg: the man's talent and reputation for baroque pictorialism in the cinema, for emphasizing only the nearly-abstract
Pool Party: Some not very bright person over at Gawker concocts a rather remarkably stupid article about so-called "pool movies," that is, movies that once-great directors sold themselves out to make