Daily Briefing. The Far East, Megacities and Music
David HudsonA Letter to Momo in Japan, Hou Hsiao-hsien on Taiwanese cinema, Nicolas Rapold on Michael Glawogger, Ben Rivers’s playlist and more.
Ben Rivers
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Notebook's 4th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2011
NotebookIn our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2011 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.
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Daily Briefing. Pasolini, Picard, Offscreen, Lists and Letters
David HudsonA rediscovered interview, a new issue, a fresh round of lists of the best of 2011.
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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope 49
David HudsonFeaturing an interview with Ai Weiwei and more. Also: The Gold Rush and Last Year at Marienbad in New York.
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NYFF 2011. Ben Rivers
David HudsonSack Barrow, Slow Action and Two Years at Sea are all screening in this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde program.
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Daily Briefing. Harun Farocki, Ben Rivers, More
David HudsonAlso: Ben-Hur, restored. Tahrir documents the Egyptian revolution. Patience (After Sebald). And Rin Tin Tin.
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Daily Briefing. La Furia Umana 10, Frieze 142 and More
David HudsonAlso: Andrei Ujică at the Museum of the Museum Image, NYFF notes and remembering Paulette Dubost.
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Wavelengths 2011. Notes from a Dark Room
Michael SicinskiReviews of nearly two dozen works screening in the Toronto International Film Festival’s program of experimental film and video.
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IFFR 2011. Reporting from Dead Paradises (Ben Rivers' "Slow Action")
Daniel KasmanI saw Ben Rivers’ 16mm 2011 film Slow Action (UK) like I saw his 16mm 2010 film, in the video lab at Rotterdam. Some might say a disservice to a work; others may count themselves lucky it was digitized
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Cinema Scope, Robin Wood, 70s Sci-Fi
David HudsonJean Luc-Godard's "late period has repeatedly demonstrated an interest in a critical cinema, an art that interrogates itself by giving form to its history as much as providing a history to its art form
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Fassbinder, Ghobadi, "Johannesburg," Gordon, Tanner, Crossroads, More
David Hudson"There are movies that make news and movies that are news," begins J Hoberman in the Voice. "World on a Wire is one of the latter. Suddenly: a virtually unknown, newly restored, two-part tele-film
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24 Hours of Avant-Garde: The Good Hours, Part I
Johnny LavantJournals and Remarks (David Gatten) Gatten's silent Bolero is “the second reel of the ongoing Continuous Quantities series [and] contains 700 shots, 29 frames each, shuttling between the 1839 version