"Running a marathon gives most people enough of an adrenaline rush, but for the truly hardcore, why not rob banks as well?" asks Nicolas Rapold in the Voice. "In the 1980s, Johann Kastenberger excelled
*** The Castro, New Mission, Grand View, Fox, Four Star…names which conjure the rich history of San Francisco movie theatres and at the same contemporary discussions around the future of single screen
Actually, this entry won't be strictly limited to the 14th Views from the Avant-Garde, which wrapped on Sunday. Other, somewhat related events bear rounding up here as well; for example, Walking Picture
"The first great antihero of American movies, Humphrey Bogart remained the epitome of nonconformist cool for generations after his death," writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times. "The Bogey of
I first saw Dario Argento's Inferno back in the mid-80s, when being disappointed by a Dario Argento movie meant something entirely different than what being disappointed by a Dario Argento film means
"There's a voiceover buzzing through Alexei Fedorchenko's brief, impressionistic, and sentimental Silent Souls," writes Michael Koresky in Reverse Shot, "and it's eager to tell you how to absorb what
"Robinson in Ruins, the latest essay film/experimental landscape study/cinematic state-of-the-union address from the great British avant-gardist Patrick Keiller, is many things," begins Michael Sicinski
A Letter to Elia, a personal appreciation of Kazan that Martin Scorsese's co-written and directed with Kent Jones, has screened in Venice, Telluride and New York and will be broadcast tonight on PBS
Nelson Kim for Hammer to Nail: "Pablo Larraín follows up his acclaimed Tony Manero with the same production team, the same lead actor (the brilliant Alfredo Castro), and the same overall mission: to
Back in May, days before Lee Chang-dong would win a Best Screenplay award at Cannes for Poetry, the Hollywood Reporter introduced its interview with the director: "The heroine in Poetry is a sixty-something
"Many know about how the 2008 financial crash happened," begins Aaron Cutler in Slant: "Widespread deregulation of investment banks and savings and loan companies, new homeowners with bad credit
• I picked up on something of David Fincher in The Social Network I hadn't noticed before—his appreciation for script's which split his protagonists into dopplegangers. In this film, the character