Chris Marker, Bill Gunn, ND/NF, More
David HudsonMax Goldberg in the San Francisco Bay Guardian: "Looking at a map of Paris, the city's rings resemble those of the giant Sequoia cross-section in Vertigo (1958), the one Kim Novak points to saying
March 2010
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Lost Sounds and Soundtracks: Yasuzo Masumura's "Irezumi" (1966)
Daniel KasmanHikaru Hayashi’s score and ambient sounds from Masumura’s masterpiece.
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Pedro Costa, Midnight Eye, ND/NF
David Hudson"For a small group of diligent cinephiles, Criterion's Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa is one of the most anticipated DVD releases of the year, or the last several," writes Sam
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report Appendix: "À nos amours" (Pialat, 1983); Criterion and Eureka!/Masters of Cinema
Glenn KennyIn addition to its brilliant edition of Sous le soleil de Satan, March also sees Eureka!/MOC relelasing Pialat's À nos amours, which is perhaps his best-known film internationally. The painful and painstaking
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Sous le soleil de Satan" (Pialat, 1987)
Glenn KennySplendid title, Sous le soleil de Satan...that is, "under the sun of Satan," or, more colloquially, "under Satan's sun." A pretty plain statement, not unlike Satan Is Real, the unequivocating title of
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ND/NF 2010, 3/30; Orphans, Truffaut, "Star Wars"
David Hudson"Anchored by a revelatory performance by Alba Gaia Bellugi, The Evening Dress is a keen portrayal of a girl caught uncomfortably in that nervous, confusing, seemingly perilous crawlspace between
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A Decade with Takashi Miike: An Introduction
Ben SachsTakashi Miike's body of work encompasses the most diverse approaches to filmmaking of any director alive today, from direct-to-video police dramas to avant-garde art movies. On top of this, Miike seems
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ND/NF 2010: "Down Terrace"
David Hudson"Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace follows up a strong first half with a rather less productive second act," writes Andrew Schenker in Slant. "Charting two weeks in the lives of a father-and-son gangster
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Images of the Day: Moga #1
Daniel KasmanOur first moga is Ryuko Umezono in Mikio Naruse's Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (1935), with cinematography by Hiroshi Suzuki. (Brief background on modern girls.)
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Weekend. ND/NF 2010 and Other Events
David HudsonAlong with second screenings of a handful of its offerings, New Directors / New Films introduces four more titles this weekend: Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl in the World, Dima El-Horr's Every Day is
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"The Eclipse," "Bluebeard," "Chloe" and More
David HudsonBut first, New York's Film Forum is marking the 20th anniversary of Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up with a one-week run for a new 35mm print. Nicolas Rapold, L Magazine: "The story is fraud that taps
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Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—26 March 2010
Glenn KennyBut The Original's Still The Greatest: I'm not gonna tell any tales out of school, but I doubt that either A.O. Scott or Michael Phillips will balk if I say I have every confidence that they weren't