The Forgotten: Messing About in Boats
David CairnsCompton Bennett burst upon the British filmmaking scene in 1945 with The Seventh Veil, a weird, sado-masochistically-inflected semi-gothic love story which did much to boost the careers of Ann Todd
June 2010
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"Stonewall Uprising" and "8: The Morman Proposition"
David HudsonStonewall Uprising, 8: The Mormon Proposition
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Ce n'est pas une pipe: "The Illusionist" (Sylvain Chomet, UK)
David CairnsAlors. The opening gala film at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Illusionist is an animated film by Sylvain Chomet, who made The Triplets of Belleville, based on an unfilmed script
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Sex and the City, Year Zero: Antonioni's "Le amiche" (1955)
Glenn KennyCesare Pavese's 1949 short novel, Among Women Only, is a queasy first-person narrative about memory and loss and social hierarchies and futility. I call it queasy because its narrator, Clelia, a fashionista
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Reverse Shot, Sight & Sound, "Mystery Train" and More DVDs
David HudsonReverse Shot editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert introduce "the third installment of our unofficial symposium series that began with Take One (in which we asked writers to isolate and write
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD/Blu-ray Disc Report: Two films by Charles Chaplin—"The Kid" (1921) and "The Great Dictator" (1940)
Glenn KennyOf all the home video outfits doing business in the United States that have a continuing investment in repertory cinema, or, as a certain segment of the market might refer to such fare, "old movies
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"Psycho" @ 50, "Tiffany's" and the "Modern Woman," "Reel Injun"
David HudsonBreathless turned 50 just once this year, but Psycho's celebrating its anniversary twice — first with a re-release in the UK back in April and again right now with an eleven-part "Director's Spotlight
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Everything That Rises Must Converge: Some Notes on "Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis"
Mubarak AliTrees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (2009, 35mm, 10 minutes, colour, sound) by Daïchi Saïto, screened at the Lantaren Cinema during the Rotterdam Film Festival, as part of the strand, 'Exercises in
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Images of the Day. Let me die in my footsteps: "J'accuse!"
Ehsan KhoshbakhtFrom Abel Gance's J'accuse! (1919); cinematography by Marc Bujard, Léonce-Henri Burel, and Maurice Forester.
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A Decade with Takashi Miike. A Nap of Kings: "Big Bang Love, Juvenile A" (a.k.a. "4.6 Billion Years of Love") (2006)
Ben SachsAn added bonus of discovering Takashi Miike’s films on DVD is following the director’s progress through special-feature interviews, which are often as entertaining as the films themselves. A deadpan
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"Winter's Bone," Joan, Coco & Igor and "Black Death"
David Hudson"Winter's Bone, warmly embraced at this year's Sundance Film Festival, belongs, at least at first glance, to one of that festival's familiar genres: the regional-realist morality tale." AO Scott
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Movie Posters of the Week: Early Dreyer
Adrian CurryFor a retro of films by master Carl Th. Dreyer at the BFI in London, a post from our archives.