Daily Briefing. Rivette, Shirley Clarke, German Film Awards
David HudsonAlso: New projects for David Lowery and Henry Selick. And remembering David Weiss.
Jacques Rivette
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Daily Briefing. Scorsese and DiCaprio take on Wall Street
David HudsonAlso: The latest on Charlie Kaufman’s surrealistic musical about a film blogger.
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Records of Material Objects in the Cinema #11: The Shadow of Charles L. Bitsch
Ignatiy VishnevetskyHints of a filmmaking conspiracy.
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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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Images of the day. Gun Hands
Daniel KasmanMother, daughter and pistols in Jacques Rivette’s 1981 masterpiece, Le Pond du Nord.
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LOLA. A New Film Journal
David HudsonAdrian Martin and Girish Shambu launch a new film journal: LOLA.
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Marie-France Pisier, 1944 - 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 4/26. Le Point and L'Express are among the French news outlets reporting that Marie-France Pisier has died at her home in Saint Cyr sur Mer at the age of 66. First mention is generally
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Doppelgängers, Fests, DVDs
David Hudson"Doubling is a paradigmatic trope in cinema, at every stratum from the technical doubling of apparatus and human perception, to the doubling of the worlds that exist on each side of the screen
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Out of the Past 2010: Some Favorite Film Double Features
David PhelpsWe at MUBI think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection
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Technicians and Artists
Ignatiy VishnevetskyDarren Aronofsky: a resourceful technician (Pi) of considerable range but little imagination (Requiem for a Dream), after attempting an artwork of his own (The Fountain), resigns himself to a career
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Image of the day. Anna Karina, Behind The Nun
Daniel KasmanAnna Karina behind the scenes of Jacques Rivette's La religieuse (1966). Rivette has turned over his archives to the Cinémathèque française. Click here for a scan of a written interview transcript
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Tuesday Foreign Region DVD Report: "La religieuse" (Jacques Rivette,1966)
Glenn KennyWatching Jean-Luc Godard's new picture, Film Socialisme, at the press screening at the New York Film Festival, I made a rather exciting discovery. As you may already know from reading various accounts