Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011
David HudsonRemembering the world-changing innovator.
October 2011
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The Forgotten: Help!
David CairnsMax Linder, king of debonair comedy, works with arch-innovator Abel Gance for the one and only time in this short comedy.
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The Camera Moves #2
Daniel KasmanTwo jaw-dropping scenes from director Vincente Minnelli: the ball in Madam Bovary and the drunken car ride in Two Weeks in Another Town.
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NYFF 2011. David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method"
David HudsonTurns out, the focus this time around is on the performances by Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen.
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NYFF 2011. Abel Ferrara's "4:44 Last Day on Earth"
David HudsonAs he nearly always does, Ferrara splits the critics.
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Danfung Dennis's "Hell and Back Again"
David HudsonThe Sundance award-winner documents a young Marine’s struggle to recover following a debilitating injury sustained in Afghanistan.
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Cosmic Leveling: Raúl Ruiz's "Brise-glace"
Luc MoulletCritic and filmmaker Luc Moullet looks at Raúl Ruiz’s 1987 short Brise-glace, which “belongs to the extraordinary.”
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Daily Briefing. Herzog, Coens, Aronofsky, More
David HudsonAlso: New DVDs, “Tourism in Cinema” and Frederick Wiseman.
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NYFF 2011. Alice Rohrwacher's "Corpo Celeste"
David Hudson“If Italy ever needed its own Lynne Ramsay, the country can stop looking now.”
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NYFF 2011. Petzold, Graf and Hochhäusler's "Dreileben"
David HudsonWhat’s fascinating is not only the impulse to rank the three the films of the trilogy but also how differently various critics do.
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NYFF 2011. The Secrets of Sidebars: Tomotaka Tasaka's "Mud and Soldiers"
Daniel KasmanA remarkable discovery in the NYFF’s Nikkatsu retrospective: a 1939 war film shot in China.
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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope and Film Quarterly, Dorsky and Kaufman
David HudsonNew issues, an interview with Nathaniel Dorsky that turned into “a genuine exploration” and the latest on Charlie Kaufman’s next projects.