Daily Briefing. Losses and Revivals
David HudsonAmir Muhammad publishes a novel by P Ramlee, Alex Ross Perry talks about the loss video stores and Harry Crews has passed away.
Amir Muhammad publishes a novel by P Ramlee, Alex Ross Perry talks about the loss video stores and Harry Crews has passed away.
Also: A new issue of frieze and more festival news.
Also: Jason Reitman stages a reading of Reservoir Dogs with an all-black cast.
Also: Reitman’s Young Adult. Masters of Cinema’s Touch of Evil Blu-ray. Teaser for Miike’s Ai To Makoto.
Also: Live reading of The Apartment, what Cronenberg’ll do after Cosmopolis and more.
Also: A Goldie for Paul Clipson. Franzen talks Corrections. And more.
Reviews from Telluride and Toronto may have been mixed, but Jason Reitman's Up in the Air got a bit of a boost yesterday when the National Board of Review named it Best Film of 2009 (as noted in the
If anyone merits the “big head” poster treatment so expertly parodied by Funny or Die it would be everybody’s favorite movie star George Clooney. Lately, however, Clooney has started to disappear from
Selections from the November/December 2009 issue of Film Comment have been posted along with a few online exclusives, among them, the full uncut version of Alexander Horwath's interview with Michael
"Cynicism and sentiment have melded magically in movies by some of the best American directors, from Preston Sturges and Billy Wilder to Alexander Payne," begins Stephen Farber in the Hollywood