The European Film Awards were presented this evening in Tallinn, Estonia, and it's turned out to be a good night for Roman Polanski and The Ghost Writer. The loot: European Film (in this case, meaning
Turned out to be quite the week for Jeff Bridges. Following Criterion's release of America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, a package that includes Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), featuring
Masaki Kobayashi's Hymn To A Tired Man, also known as Youth of Japan, is a fairly difficult film to see, which is one reason its December 5 December 4 screening at N.Y.C.'s Film Forum is a noteworthy event
"Ballet has been mourned as a dying art so often in recent years (even by its devotees — dark ash weeps from the sky at the demise of Jennifer Homans's monumental dance history, Apollo's Angels
It is one of the miracles of cinema that Manoel de Oliveira, who made his first film nearly 80 years ago, in 1931, is still working, and making some of the best films of his career at that. And next
Takemitsu Toru's "End Credits" from his soundtrack to Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985): Gustav Mahler's "Der Abschied" (The Farewell) from Das Lied von der Erde [The Song of the Earth] (1908
"It would be a fool who thought they had all the necessary competences to comment fully on this extraordinarily rich oeuvre which is constitutively allusive," wrote Colin MacCabe in the preface
This is the week we begin not only looking back on 2010 but also ahead to 2011. Sundance, running January 20 through 30, is rolling out its lineup, and you can find the titles and blurbs just about
The National Board of Review, which, Wikipedia tells us, "was the first group to choose the ten best English-language movies of the year and the best foreign films" in 1929, "and is still the first
In the dying years of the last century, Patrick Keiller was Britain's leading cinematic psychogeographer, mapping the unconscious impulses of the English cityscape in two remarkable feature films, London
Back in September, Marc Maron was interviewing Judd Apatow for his WTF podcast and, about three quarters of the way through the two-hour conversation, asked him, more or less, to talk about some of