*** The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s world looks painted—like a painting, it’s a selective recreation of reality, history designed to the frame, with light traced in neat, neoclassical lines
"The GoodTimesKid was a title that I and the co-writer Gerardo Naranjo came up with while we were studying at AFI together," Azazel Jacobs told James van Maanen at GreenCine Daily last August
One of the many admirable characteristics of the Eureka!/Masters of Cinema label is its disinclination to do things by half measures. An ordinary label overseen by less passionate, more cost-conscious
While Nicholas Ray was directing the bloated and misbegotten epic 55 Days at Peking, he had a dream that if he made the film, he would never complete another feature. The dream turned out to be true
First, the good news. As Dave McNary reports for Variety, "Paramount is reteaming The Hurt Locker [site] director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal on action-adventure Triple Frontier
“But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always
What to do with an idiotic script? Douglas Sirk replied, “I realized maybe Jane Wyman could be right, and this goddamn awful story could be a success. And it was. My immediate reaction to Magnificent
Calling Leni Riefenstahl "the best film director who ever lived" is certainly one way of drawing attention to your movie. Particularly if you stake the claim in Germany. When Quentin Tarantino premiered
There aren't many careers in the history of cinema quite like Roy Andersson's. Fresh out of film school, he had a major success with En kärlekshistoria (distributed as A Swedish Love Story in the US
Above: Laetitia Guerard and Leora Barbara in Sylvie Verheyde's Stella (Verheyde, France). "It's never too soon // To tread the boardsI was in vaudeville // At age fiveMy career took // Its first nosedive
Universal knows full well what it's up to, releasing the trailer for It's Complicated today. Evidently, this Nancy Myers-directed rom-com - set for a Christmas Day release, if you know what I mean
Back when I was twelve or thirteen I asked my Dad to take my friends and me on a birthday outing to a movie called Crystal Voyager which we all thought was going to be a superhero movie. It turned out