The Noteworthy: Wrapping Rotterdam, Tony and Theo, A Michael Snow Compendium
Adam CookThe Carney-Rappaport feud continues, new trailers from Denis Côté & the Coen brothers, a Rotterdam report, Daney on Straub & Hulliet & more.
The Carney-Rappaport feud continues, new trailers from Denis Côté & the Coen brothers, a Rotterdam report, Daney on Straub & Hulliet & more.
Also: ATG #89. LAT previews 2012. Tilda Swinton on Virginia Woolf and more.
Also: Universal @ 100. James Toback’s “totally unusual, inventive” movie and more.
Also: British Independent Film Awards nominations, New Frontier at Sundance and Michel Gondry in Rotterdam.
Also: News on upcoming projects from Scorsese, Jonze, the Coens and the Wachowskis.
Also: New DVDs, “Tourism in Cinema” and Frederick Wiseman.
Rosel Zech (Veronika Voss) was 69. Anticipating Telluride. New projects for Richard Linklater, the Coens and more.
The annual state-of-the-Berlinale assessments usually appear after the Bears have been awarded, but this year the lineup has looked so anemic that a handful of pieces asking, to borrow a title from
"At 11 minutes long, Tacita Dean's film Prisoner Pair (showing at the Common Guild gallery in Glasgow [through February 5]) is a svelte précis of certain tendencies in the English artist's haunting
"The crippling and cruel, not to mention pretty foolish, response to Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006) was perhaps inevitably going to inspire an aesthetic retreat on her part," writes Roderick
True Grit: four keenly-realized characters suspended in a moral vacuum. The realization of the characters is a question of the actors' inventiveness and a certain interaction of editing and screenwriting;
Turned out to be quite the week for Jeff Bridges. Following Criterion's release of America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, a package that includes Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), featuring