Annie Girardot, 1931 - 2011
David Hudson"Annie Girardot, the perky, gravely-voiced actress who became one of France's most acclaimed stars, has died," reports the AP. "She was 79. Girardo had suffered for years from Alzheimer's disease and
February 2011
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Gary Winick, 1961 - 2011
David Hudson"Gary Winick died today," Matt Dentler tweeted last night. "He leaves behind a legacy of supporting indie film and NYC.""He made his directorial debut with Curfew in 1988 but really made a splash with
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Oscars 2011
David HudsonSo how did you fare? Did you Outguess Ebert? He wasn't alone, of course, in predicting a big night at the Oscars for The King's Speech. In the New York Times a few days ago, AO Scott put it this way
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Awards. Spirits and Césars
David HudsonBlack Swan, lost in the media fray over what was supposed to have been a two-horse race to Oscar Night, is back, having just won four Film Independent Spirit Awards: Best Feature, Best Director for
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A favorite from Rotterdam 2011: House of Shadows (José María de Orbe's "Aita")
Daniel KasmanAitá (José Maria de Orbe, Spain) develops sublimely what is undoubtedly an old pictorial idea: the study of light as inextricable from the study of death. De Orbe’s modest semi-doc fixes its steady
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Bresson, Dolan, Beauvois, les frères Farrelly
David Hudson"French critic Pierre Bergé said that you have to bring a belief to Diary of a Country Priest, in either heaven or in the cinema." Rob Humanick in Slant: "Like the atheistic Pier Paolo Pasolini's The
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Big Clock"
Adrian CurryAt 1:15pm last Friday I abandoned a prime piece of New York real estate. Christian Marclay’s 24-hour installation The Clock had been running for the previous four weeks at the Paula Cooper Gallery in
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Alain Resnais in New York
David HudsonStarting today and on through March 20, the newly refurbished Museum of the Moving Image will be screening a whole lot of Alain Resnais: "Although Resnais may be most famous for his landmark films
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Free film of the day: A black-hearted western starring Gregory Peck
Daniel KasmanGordon Douglas’ 1951 film, Only the Valiant.
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Marcel L'Herbier, Nina Menkes, Morgan Fisher, More
David HudsonMarcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine screens tonight as part of the film series running in conjunction with Cinema Across Media: The 1920s, the First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema. "L
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The Forgotten: Thieved and Cobbled
David CairnsRichard Williams' The Thief and the Cobbler is, in many ways the animation equivalent of Welles' Don Quixote. Williams, a successful animator making a lot of money in title sequences (Tony Richardson
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Harun Farocki, William E Jones, "Public Speaking"
David HudsonThe exhibition Harun Farocki: Comparison via a Third is on view through March 3 at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and, for Artforum, Ed Halter listens to Farocki discuss his own work