A couple of months ago I featured all the international posters for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or routing Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, but this new poster, designed by the great Chris
Last week, SXSW rolled out its walloping features lineup, and today the festival has announced another round: the Midnighters and SXFantastic sections and so many shorts that they're divided into
"For the first time, New Frontier curator Shari Frilot has a venue in which she can put together a coherent show, and she has come through with smarts and élan." As Amy Taubin explains at Artforum
Nobody Wants to Play With Me (1976) is a Werner Herzog short which seems to have been produced for some public education scheme to encourage kids to play nice. I think it means to be cute, but of course
Luc Moullet in Toujours moins (France), a short film suspiciously formed of footage of automated terminals (ATMs, ticket dispensers, turnstiles, etc.) over three decades (perhaps culled from the director
"Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest is a love letter to the influential hip-hop group, directed by actor and Tribe superfan Michael Rapaport," blogs David Fear for Time Out
"If there is one aspect of Susan Sontag's multifaceted life that has resisted enshrinement, it is her film career." In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim addresses the impact of her film criticism before
Short notes on the impressive and unexpected retrospective of Spanish-Catalan auteur Agustí Villaronga: His debut Tras en cristal (1987) reveals the filmmaker belonging to the post-Hitchcock group
Lech Majewski has just presented his new film, The Mill and the Cross, at the Sundance, Rotterdam and Göteborg film festivals and at the Louvre in Paris, and we'll get to the first round of critical
At Cargo, Simon Rothöhler marks Nick Nolte's 70th with the scene above: "Two men between two turbines, two actors in an unevenly matched overacting duell; a theatrical moment interrupts a (very fine
"Sundance has upped its documentary quotient this year by starting a non-competition Documentary Premieres section for veteran directors," noted Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times just as the festival
Meet me between silent cinema and sound, and between the Soviets and the Americans in this crypto-remake of John Ford’s The Lost Patrol.