Video Sundays: Tunnel Vision
Daniel Kasman(It should be noted—and enjoyed!—that such a recursive path can obviously be diverted at any point, such as the example here which branches off from the 5th video above.)
February 2010
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Now on DVD: “Point Blank” (John Boorman, 1967)
Fernando F. CroceIf Resnais made crime thrillers…The grimy smudge in the Alcatraz cell at the onset might be Proust’s “little patch of yellow wall” (The Captive), the dying Bergotte here becomes Lee Marvin’s double
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"A Prophet," "The Art of the Steal," "The Crazies" and More
David HudsonAn award magnet, a couple of strong docs and a remake are among the films opening in theaters this week. "Jacques Audiard's febrile, engrossing prison thriller A Prophet opens the way tragedies often
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Movie Poster of the Week: "I Am Love" and the Curious Case of Tilda Swinton
Adrian CurryWhat I love about this new poster for Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) is not just its gorgeous typography, but also how it celebrates its lead actress, the incomparable Tilda Swinton. In
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London Premiere. Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland"
David HudsonTim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, set to open pretty much worldwide next week, saw its world premiere in London last night. Here's a roundup of first impressions, plus notes on why theaters are ticked
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Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—27 February 2010
Glenn KennyA New Substantiation Of Auteurism: Sometimes the movies that are making money and the movies that are worth talking about are the same movies. Thanks, I guess, in part to myself, and to my esteemed colleague
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Events. Jones, "Confucius," Benning, "Herostratus" and More
David HudsonRemarkable series and events are lighting up the coasts these days. Let's start in New York, with Ed Halter in Artforum: "The dynamic of William E Jones's work lies in the tensions produced between
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The Forgotten: It Was So Nice Inside His Head
David CairnsI admit that I initially grabbed a copy of Clérambard (1969) out of a not-wholly pure interest in actress Dany Carrel, an interesting presence in French movies of the fifties and sixties (she retired
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Now on DVD: "Make Way for Tomorrow" (Leo McCarey, 1937)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi in Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. I've spent so much time in and on Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story that I was fairly certain
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Berlinale. Breakouts from the Berlin School
David HudsonAnyone looking for a running motif at this year's Berlinale didn't have to look far. Prisons. More to the point, men in prisons — or just out of prison or about to land in prison. In an interview for
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Dinner with the Straubs, and More: Toby Talbot's Cinephilic Memoir
Glenn KennyAbove: The second in New Yorker's "American Premieres" series: April 6-May 10, 1967. In her author photo on the back jacket flap of her book, Toby Talbot is standing outside, leaning against some
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DVDs. "Make Way for Tomorrow," Shaw and More
David Hudson"There are few American films as subtle, moving and bursting with human truth as Leo McCarey's Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), and few that have been as unjustly forgotten." So begins one of Dave Kehr