TCM Classic Film Festival 2012
David HudsonThe festival opens with the world premiere of a new restoration of Cabaret.
Jean Renoir
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Daily Briefing. Bergman's Videos, Antonioni's Docs and More
David HudsonAlso: Posters for this year’s Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week, “Great Directors” in San Francisco, Picasso in London and more.
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Daily Briefing. Bordwell + Thompson + Criterion, Reverse Shot on Spielberg II, More
David HudsonAlso: New books, new DVD/Blu-ray releases, new Sight & Sound.
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Daily Briefing. Garrel and Nico, New Offscreen and More
David HudsonAlso: Light Industry screenings, contemporary art and film in Stockholm and new projects in the works.
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Daily Briefing. Wenders, Rainer vs Abramović, Streep's Thatcher and More
David HudsonUntil the End of the World @ 20. Omer Fast’s 5000 Feet Is the Best. Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho — and more.
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"How Do You Know," "TRON: Legacy," "Rabbit Hole," More
David HudsonThe first roundup of TRON: Legacy reviews — and it's a big one — dates back a couple of weeks and you'll find it right here. Initial takes on Rabbit Hole were gathered during the Toronto film festival
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Tuesday Foreign Blu-ray Disc Report: "French Cancan" (Jean Renoir, 1954)
Glenn KennyWhat is an auteur? The question never goes away, does it? The director Irvin Kershner died last week, and I commemorated his passing by putting up some of my thoughts about his work up at my
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Image of the Day. Cinema Villains & Villainy #1
Daniel KasmanOpale in Jean Renoir's Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959); featuring (shhh!) Jean-Louis Barrault; cinematography by Georges Leclerc. (Related video found here.)
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Video Sundays: Cinema Lives On (Through Modern Mad Men)
Daniel KasmanBelow: Jean-Louis Barrault in Jean Renoir's Le testament du Docteur Cordelier (1959); cinematography by Georges Leclerc. Below: Denis Lavant in Leos Carax's Merde, part of Tokyo! (2008); cinematography
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The Forgotten: Night and Fog
David CairnsWhen Maigret met Magritte. I'm not, in seems, the first to compare Jean Renoir's La nuit du carrefour (The Night at the Crossroads) to Carl Dreyer's Vampyr. It's an odd congruence—Renoir's film is a
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Re: Renoir
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky"As soon as you make a theory, facts destroy it."”– Jean Renoir Jean Renoir is not "elegant." Jean Renoir was never a "master." Though he could be gentle when he needed to, he was never genteel. Jean
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"The Newspaper Picture," Renoir and More
David Hudson"An extra folded into Film Forum's all-35mm, month-long celebration of The Newspaper Picture (April 9 through May 6) celebrates the brashest, cleverest motor-mouth newshound to ever slang a source