Daily Briefing. Rasoulof, Lynch, Tarr, Hitchcock, Wellman
David HudsonAlso: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”
Also: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”
Also: The Louis Delluc Prize, books and adaptations, and celebrating Studio Ghibli.
Also: Myrna Loy, Mohammad Rasoulof, Hayao Miyazaki, Martin Scorsese, Neil Jordan, viewing and browsing and reading and more.
He's been threatening to retire for years, but even at 70, Hayao Miyazaki can't seem to slow down. While he carries on developing films for other directors, he's also lately been toying with the idea
Possibly the most interesting feature of the Ghibli Museum, located in Mitaka, is its small movie theater. It’s here that audiences can discover new and unreleased shorts by Hayao Miyazaki. Having
"Too often there's nothing but ego at the center of today's micro-indies," writes Michael Atkinson at IFC, "but Joshua Safdie's The Pleasure of Being Robbed isn't merely slacker realism or geysering
Many critics, who know Hayao Miyazaki is a world-class entertainer and that American audiences are still clueing into that fact, seem determined to frame Ponyo as the filmmaker’s latest masterpiece
Big day. The two best-reviewed films opening in theaters this weekend center on relationships between human beings and beings that aren't. Quentin Tarantino carries on making noise and there's a new
A new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal slipped online over the weekend