Some Violence Is Required: A Conversation With Pedro Costa
David JenkinsThe Portuguese maestro talks digital, film and DCP, early influences and teachers, David Fincher and filmmaking now.
Howard Hawks
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Movie Poster of the Week: “20,000 Years in Sing Sing” and Title-Centric Posters through the Ages
Adrian CurryA look at posters in which actors are absent and the title treatment is king.
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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.”
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Toward a Minor Movies
David PhelpsThree notes on Wings and William Wellman’s home movies.
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Daily Briefing. "Film socialisme" Cruise Ship Runs Aground
David HudsonAlso: Theo Angelopoulos, Alberto Lattuada and Jean-Pierre Gorin on DVD.
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Angie Dickinson @ 80
David HudsonHappy 80th, Ms Dickinson.
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New York's "Essential Pre-Code" Series: Week 2
Daniel KasmanPart two of our guide to New York’s retrospective on pre-Code films.
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Hawks, MOMI, Globes, More
David HudsonA two-week-long Howard Hawks season launched this weekend at BFI Southbank in London and, in the Guardian, David Bromwich writes: "The best actors of Hollywood films for three decades did a lot of
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Fuller, Tarantino, Sarli, Hawks, Oliveira, Lou Ye, More
David Hudson"LACMA's weekend series Fuller at Fox zeroes in on a blazing trail of six signature works for Darryl Zanuck's (now-75-year-old) studio — what the director called 'a new period of creativity and
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A Gentleman Prefers Friends
Daniel KasmanGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) isn't my favorite Howard Hawks film, musical, Marilyn Monroe picture, or use of Technicolor, but watching it again in a frighteningly flawless new restored print for a
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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
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Image of the day: The Loves of a Blonde
Daniel KasmanNo wait: Blonde Crazy! No wait, Blonde Venus! No wait, Bombshell! No wait, Negative Space! If you live in New York, see this magnificent film this Saturday in a double feature with Rowland Brown