Daily Briefing. "The Hobbit" @ 48 fps
David HudsonAlso: New books, silver discs and goings on all over.
Jerry Lewis
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JL/G Reverse/Shot
David PhelpsThe Ship Sails On.
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Daily Briefing. La Furia Umana 12
David HudsonThe new issue features a walloping dossier on Jerry Lewis. Also: New books and old docs.
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Daily Briefing. When in Rome...
David HudsonA big day for festival news, oddly enough. Plus, notable films in the works.
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Daily Briefing. Senses of Cinema 62
David HudsonAlso: Richard Brody on Jerry Lewis, Johnnie To in Udine and more.
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Daily Briefing. Cinema of Transgression + Critics on the Move
David HudsonAlso: New Art Theatre Guild Pamphlet, Jerry Lewis DVDs and Carlos Saura news.
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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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"Black Swan," "I Love You Phillip Morris," "All Good Things," More
David Hudson"Ballet has been mourned as a dying art so often in recent years (even by its devotees — dark ash weeps from the sky at the demise of Jennifer Homans's monumental dance history, Apollo's Angels
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Richard J Lewis's "Barney's Version"
David Hudson"The dizzying comic energy and intellectual vigor of Mordecai Richler's 1997 satire have largely been drained from director Richard J Lewis's agreeable but inevitably lesser version of Barney's Version
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Video Sundays: Auteur Pantomime in the Years 1961-2
Daniel Kasman(1) Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard: (2) Jerry Lewis:
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Video Sundays: The Modern Charade
Daniel KasmanModernist art-cinema trope #2301: To live life comfortably in the modern world, one must believe in (or buy into) the charade of modern life. The ending of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up is anticipated
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French Connections: François Truffaut, Tsai Ming-Liang, Jerry Lewis
David HudsonFrançois Truffaut: A Winter Portrait, running Tuesdays through December 22 at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York, showcases the less-heralded work of the 1970s. "The 'efficiency' of