Film Comment Selects 2012
David Hudson“We sort of do the lineup by the seat of our pants.”
Aleksandr Sokurov
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Daily Briefing. "The Artist" Sweeps the BAFTAs
David HudsonAlso: Raquel Welch in New York, Michael Almereyda at Harvard — and remembering Whitney Houston.
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Daily Briefing. Senses of Cinema 61 and More of the Best of 2011
David HudsonAlso: Emir Kusturica is going to build a stone city.
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Daily Briefing. Kehr on Griffith, Harvey on Curt McDowell
David HudsonAlso: See It Big! in New York, Clouzot at Harvard, Mapplethorpe in Paris and Jeunet’s next project.
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Daily Briefing. "Aleksandr Sokurov: A Spiritual Voice"
David HudsonAlso: The latest on Doctor Who and John Carter.
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AFI FEST 2011
David HudsonThis year’s edition features the premieres of Eastwood’s J. Edgar and Soderbergh’s Haywire.
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Venice and Toronto 2011. Aleksandr Sokurov's "Faust"
David HudsonMost critics will have been pleased to see Faust win the Golden Lion. But not all of them.
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Venice 2011. Feel the Temptation
Daniel KasmanAleksandr Sokurov finishes his tetralogy of power with a magnificent, grotesque adaptation of Goethe’s Faust.
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Bright Lights 73
David HudsonYet more terrific summer reading! The new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal is out.
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DVDs. "Tony Manero," "The Sun," Leone and More
David Hudson"Disco and Dantean inferno, Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero portrays a dead-eyed survivor who is 'stayin' alive' during the bloody years of Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile." James Quandt for Artforum
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God and Man: Aleksandr Sokurov's "The Sun"
Daniel KasmanThis article was originally published as coverage of the New York Film Festival in 2005, but is being re-posted due to The Sun finally achieving a theatrical release in the U.S. *** Issei Ogata as
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"The Sun," "The Exiles," criticWIRE
David HudsonWho doesn't love the full-page grid in each issue of Film Comment tabulating ratings from eight critics for two dozen or so newish films? Whether it's stars and bombs, numerical or letter grades, or