"Oh yeah, Tony Scott—he's good," says even Lav Diaz, currently residing in Vienna's Ferronian headquarters, and further proof rushes into cinemas with Unstoppable (and to home systems with the highly
Maurice Tourneur's Carnival of Sinners (1943); cinematography by Armand Thirard.
On the occasion of its 25th edition, Argentina's Mar del Plata Film Festival (site) is teaming up with MUBI to present five films from its competition lineup online for free through November
It had been years since the Ferroni Brigade attended this lovely Swiss holiday-resortish town in Ticino, the resident memory mostly a…
"Robert Kaylor's 1971 documentary Derby is a quintessential movie about the American dream," writes Michael Joshua Rowin for Artforum. "The film centers on a young factory worker, Michael Robert Snell
Via Catherine Grant and, here in the Forum, Angel, comes news of the death, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, of Luis García Berlanga at the age of 89. Primarily known for Welcome
Above: Larry Cohen on the set of It's Alive (1973). Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.—Euripides From Euripides to Larry Cohen may seem like a considerable jump, but the more
A publicity still of Anna Baldaccini's breasts, from Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie) [Every Man for Himself], a film about capitalism, prostitution, objects, commerce, and making movies. Sauve
Let's do this one backwards. Let's start with suggestions for further reading. The suggestions come from Daniel Kasman, and one of the implications, for me anyway, is that the pleasure I take in the
Claire Denis has not always been well served by her poster artists. Oddly, for a director who has made some of the most beautiful, sensual films of the past twenty years, the posters for her films rarely
Every now and then, Isabelle Huppert is suddenly everywhere and here we are again. She's on the cover of the new Film Comment and she's in the news: Just yesterday, the Playlist's Christopher Bell
"Oscar-winning Italian film producer Dino De Laurentiis, who brought to the big screen nearly 500 films including Serpico, Three Days of the Condor and King Kong, died in Los Angeles aged 91," reports