The Forgotten: Bloody Kids
David CairnsEmile and the Detectives is a children’s adventure story scripted by the young Billy Wilder.
Billy Wilder
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Movie Poster of the Week: Billy Wilder’s “Love in the Afternoon” and the Posters of Wojciech Fangor
Adrian CurryThe 1950s movie posters of one of Poland’s greatest artists, now aged 90.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Grand Prix” and the Posters of Eva Galová-Vodrázková
Adrian CurryThe unusual art of a great Czech poster designer of the late 60s.
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Daily Briefing. Marilyn, DVD/Blu-ray, Mark Dery
David HudsonOn the icon of Cannes’ 65th anniversary edition. Plus, new DVD/Blu-ray releases and a multi-faceted analysis of the early 21st century.
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Daily Briefing. Sampling Trailers for Films @ SFIFF + Tribeca
David HudsonAlso: Jean-Pierre Dardenne heads up Cannes’ Cinefondation jury. And Werner Herzog’s got 2.5 projects in the works.
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Raffaello Matarazzo, "People on Sunday" and More DVDs
David Hudson"It's easy to enjoy Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas for the campy excess of their acting and story lines," blogs Dave Kehr, "but it's more productive to take them seriously, I think — to see how
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Visconti, Iranian Cinema, Brackett and Wilder, More
David Hudson"Senso (1954) has long been the least seen of Luchino Visconti's masterworks, mainly because the original three-strip Technicolor negative has shrunk, making it impossible to render Visconti's painterly
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DVDs. Zwigoff, Walsh + "Sunset Blvd" @ 60
David Hudson"A habitual crank with a pronounced antisocial streak and an aversion to mainstream culture, the director Terry Zwigoff has one of the most distinctive sensibilities in American movies," writes Dennis
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The Forgotten: The Defenestrated Man
David CairnsSTEP OUTSIDE "A man comes in through the door, you got nothing. He comes in through the window, you got a situation." So spoke Billy Wilder, a man who knew a few things about dramatic construction
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At the cinematheque: Dead Man's Stroll Through "The Late Films"
David PhelpsAbove: Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. “Late Films,” BAM’s new series is titled, as a series of neglected films made late in major directors’ careers, but as if the films themselves were