Image of the Day. Cinema Villains & Villainy #1
Daniel KasmanOpale in Jean Renoir's Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959); featuring (shhh!) Jean-Louis Barrault; cinematography by Georges Leclerc. (Related video found here.)
August 2010
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DVDs. Early Kurosawa, "Piranha" and More
David Hudson"To watch Sanshiro Sugata, one of the most accomplished directorial debuts in film history, is to marvel at the emergence of a film artist whose aesthetic sensibility is fully formed from the first
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Robert F Boyle, 1909 - 2010
David Hudson"Iconic Production Designer Robert F Boyle, who collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock and Norman Jewison, and [was] the recipient of an Honorary Oscar in 2008, died Sunday," reports Andre
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Tom Mankiewicz, 1942 - 2010
David Hudson"Tom Mankiewicz, a screenwriter and premier script doctor who made his reputation working on such James Bond films as Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun, has died
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Thundercrack! " (Curt McDowell, 1975)
Glenn KennyAbout ten years ago, when I was the editor of the Home Guide section of Premiere magazine, I was looking into expanding the scope of that back-of-the-book section's DVD coverage, and including more obscure
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Film Quarterly and Other Magazines
David HudsonThis summer certainly hasn't lacked for reading material. In last month alone, we've seen new issues of Film Comment (in which Paul Brunick points us to a slew of blogs to keep up with), Jump Cut
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A Gentleman Prefers Friends
Daniel KasmanGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) isn't my favorite Howard Hawks film, musical, Marilyn Monroe picture, or use of Technicolor, but watching it again in a frighteningly flawless new restored print for a
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Mysterious Extracts from a Film's Subtitle Track
Daniel KasmanExcerpts from an English translation (unknown author) of Jacques Rivette's 1976 film, Duelle (une quarantaine), screenplay by Eduardo de Gregorio and Marilù Parolini: 00:05:09,194 --> 00:05:12,064