The Noteworthy: New Cineaste, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, The VA Debate
Adam CookA new issue of Cineaste, Takashi Miike in english, Vulgar Auteurism under fire, Richard Brody on Allan Dwan, and more.
John Carpenter
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The Noteworthy: LFU 15/1, "Historic Centre", Carpenter's Favorite Westerns
Adam CookLa Furia Umana debuts in print, Scorsese and De Palma prep new projects, Cinema Scope divulges their 2012 faves, Oshima + Kurosawa & more.
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Viennale 2012. American Genres
Daniel KasmanA brief look at Hollywood genre filmmaking from 1941 – 2010 through films screened at the Viennale by Lang, Ford, Carpenter and Scott.
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Echoes #4
Daniel KasmanThe horror of walking the streets of America in 1933 and 1988.
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Daily Briefing. Béla Tarr, "Swoon" @ 20 and Catherine Robbe-Grillet
David HudsonAlso: Farocki, Amos Poe, Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, Barbara Hammer, Fritz Lang and a busy season for admirers of Sherlock Holmes.
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Scary Monsters 2011, Round 3
David HudsonLists, reviews of classic and new horror, news and interviews. Updated through Halloween.
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Notebook Reviews: Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique” and John Carpenter’s “The Ward”
Fernando F. CroceFramed in a close shot, college students go about their business around a Xerox machine when a spray of bullets suddenly rips into the image. Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve's 2009 fictionalized account
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Hoberman, HBO's "Cinema Verite," More
David HudsonThis evening at 92Y Tribeca, J Hoberman will be introducing a screening of Anthony Mann's Reign of Terror (1949, also known as The Black Book) and signing copies of his new book, An Army of Phantoms
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"True Grit," "Tron: Legacy" and Weekend Reads
David HudsonTurned 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
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UnionDocs in Brooklyn and Berlin, DVDs, "Aftershock"
David Hudson"What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary?" asks Mike Everleth, pointing us to a multi-part special program happening tonight in Brooklyn
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TIFF 2010. "John Carpenter's The Ward"
David Hudson"Tight as a drum and plenty of fun, John Carpenter's first film in nine years is hardly a groundbreaker, but when the execution is this expert, why complain?" asks Tim Grierson in Screen. "Consciously
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DVDs. Pialat, von Sternberg, Laloux, More
David HudsonIn the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim writes that Maurice Pialat's first feature film, L'enfance nue (Naked Childhood, 1968), "out on DVD this week from the Criterion Collection, can be seen as a companion