Daily Briefing. Experimental Conversations 8
David HudsonAlso: LA Observed and goings on in Chicago and Boston.
Jerzy Skolimowski
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Jerzy Skolimowski's "Deep End"
David HudsonRestored and revived earlier this year, Deep End sees a run at BAM in New York from Friday through Thursday.
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NYAFF, Film Quarterly and Lots More
David HudsonRoundup of the New York Asian Film Festival, the new issue of Film Quarterly, and more.
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Finding Zen in Poland: An Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski
Ben SachsThe Jerzy Skolimowski retrospective currently touring the United States is re-introducing American audiences to one of the most free-spirited directors the movies have ever produced. His first features
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"The Cinema of Jerzy Skolimowski"
David HudsonSkolimowski at work, from the December 1968 issue of Films and Filming, via chained and perfumed. Jerzy Skolimowski's comeback as a director after a break of nearly two decades threw many for a loop
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Éric Rohmer's "Le Rayon Vert" (and More)
David Hudson"Though Éric Rohmer's breakthrough film stateside was the lustrous black-and-white, winter-set My Night at Maud's (1969), the New Wave architect may be cinema's greatest chronicler of the summer
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The Forgotten: Love's Young Dream
David CairnsWith the voyeuristic Four Nights with Anna and the visceral, brutal, beautiful and nearly wordless Essential Killing, Jerzy Skolimowski can be said to have made a comeback, but since when has he been
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Posters. Goings on in San Francisco, LA, Chicago and Elsewhere
David HudsonI'll leave the commentary on poster design to the far more knowledgeable Adrian Curry, but in rounding up notes on events happening around the US (outside of New York, which'll have its own roundup
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"Deep End," DVDs, More
David Hudson"It's not uncommon for movies to drop out of circulation and simply disappear, as fans of Deep End will attest," begins Ryan Gilbey in the Guardian. "Barely seen since its release in 1971, the film concerns
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In the UK. "Oranges and Sunshine," "Essential Killing" and "Killing Bono"
David HudsonTwo films directed by sons of famous British fathers open this weekend, Source Code, by Duncan Jones, son of David Bowie (though Jones is never eager to flaunt it), on both sides of the Atlantic (and
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TIFF 2010. Day 5
Daniel Kasman0537 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica, Romania) Andrei Ujica has a simple, ingenious idea for this documentary on Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu: tell the man’s political
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Jerzy Skolimowski's "Essential Killing"
David Hudson"There is not a moment of respite for viewers in Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski's 83-minute-long political thriller Essential Killing, full of blood and wild nature," writes Camillo de Marco for