Jean-Pierre Melville's Final Film
Daniel KasmanJean-Pierre Melville’s last film, Un flic, is also a final film, one which travels to cinema’s edge and faces a void.
Jean-Pierre Melville
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The Noteworthy: Godard on Set, The History of Film, Tracking PTA
Adam CookLarry Clark’s new film wins in Rome & debuts online, Berlinale’s “Weimar Touch”, J. Hoberman’s 21 Films of the 21st Century & more.
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Notebook Reviews: Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyGary Oldman, a bunch of bald guys, and a whole lot of typewriters star in this curio cabinet John le Carré adaptation.
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"Another Year," "Blue Valentine," More
David Hudson"Class consciousness has frequently played a role in Mike Leigh's films, and not only because, as a storyteller whose native terrain is modern Britain, he can hardly hope to avoid it," writes AO
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Alain Delon @ 75
David Hudson"Astonishingly handsome," writes John Farr in the Huffington Post, Alain Delon, born on November 8, 1935, "was bound to portray romantic figures, but he also projected a sullen, enigmatic, slightly
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Tuesday Foreign Region Blu-ray disc Report: "Le cercle rouge" (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)
Glenn KennyI wrote this in February of this year: "[That] the Criterion Collection losing the licensing for over twenty library pictures, the current editions of which are going out of print, point[s] to something
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At the cinematheque: "Léon Morin, Priest" (Melville, 1961)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean-Pierre Melville's Léon Morin, Priest. Image courtesy Rialto Pictures. Father the French New Wave and how do you proceed? By casting the star of
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The Forgotten: The Apocalypse of St. Andrzej
David CairnsThe First Part Andrzej Zulawski swings his camera like a steel fist. Indeed, right at the start of his first feature, The Third Part of the Night (1971), after a soldier on horse back has ridden right