DVDs and More Festival Anticipation
David HudsonDennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times on The Red Riding Trilogy: "From one film to another — 1974, 1980, 1983 — stories overlap, contexts shift and characters recur. But while the plots are busy and
August 2010
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Tuesday Morning Foreign DVD and Blu-ray disc Report: "The Battle of the River Plate/The Pursuit of the Graf Spee" (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1956)
Glenn KennyThis is the film that made me fall in love with Montvideo. Montevideo being the major city in Uruguay and the setting for the climax of this picture, a naval battle whose outcome I shall be spoiling
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Debating Festivals
David HudsonThis is the week we ramp up for the fall festival season. Venice opens on Wednesday, Telluride happens over the weekend, followed shortly thereafter by Toronto, then San Sebastian, Fantastic Fest
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Alain Corneau, 1943 - 2010
David HudsonLe Monde and other French news outlets are reporting that Alain Corneau has succumbed to cancer at the age of 67. Just last week, Jordan Mintzer reviewed Corneau's latest, Crime d'amour (Love Crime
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Books. "Charlie Chan," "Cecil B DeMille," More
David HudsonYunte Huang's Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History "is a scintillating, provocative work of discovery, a voyage into racial stereotyping
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Images of the Day: A Smile in the Sun
Daniel KasmanA rare moment of unabashed of happiness in the 17 film collaboration between Japanese director Mikio Naruse and actress Hideko Takamine (with this being their first, when Takamine was 17, and Hit and Run
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"The Milk of Sorrow," "Mesrine," "Centurion," More
David HudsonLet's begin this weekly roundup of critical voices on theatrical releases with The Milk of Sorrow, winner of the Berlinale's Golden Bear in 2009. "In this wonderfully strange, hypnotically beautiful
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Kihachiro Kawamoto, 1925 - 2010
David Hudson"It's not a good week to be a Japanese animation legend," sighs Amid Amidi at Cartoon Brew. "Stop motion animator and puppeteer Kihachiro Kawamoto, passed away last Monday at age 85. The cause of death
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Movie Poster of the Week: "On the Bowery"
Adrian CurryA gorgeous new poster for Milestone Films’ release of the restoration of Lionel Rogosin’s 1957 documentary On the Bowery, which opens on September 17 at Film Forum. Part-verité, part staged drama, On
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Marshall's Women and Men
Ignatiy VishnevetskyNeil Marshall's men are numerous and largely interchangeable—grizzled genre types vaguely sketched, owing a lot to Hawks-by-way-of-Carpenter-and-Cameron and to the supporting casts of countless horror
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Ida Lupino, William Castle, FrightFest
David Hudson"By any standard, [Ida Lupino's] body of work is intriguing, but as a female in sexist mid-century Hollywood, it is particularly remarkable," writes Justin Stewart in the L Magazine. "MoMA makes dual
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The Forgotten: Girls on a Motorcycle
David Cairns"When a director dies, he becomes a cinematographer." That softly devastating one-liner, initially applied, I believe, to Josef von Sternberg, perhaps comes from a prejudice against the purely visual