Daily Briefing. Dorsky, Snow, Kael
David HudsonAlso: Fred and Adele Astaire, John Ford and Cartoon College.
Also: Fred and Adele Astaire, John Ford and Cartoon College.
Also: Terrific new covers for forthcoming books.
A look at some stunning posters from around the world for John Ford’s classic strangers-on-a-coach western.
Also: Richard Brody on Jerry Lewis, Johnnie To in Udine and more.
Springtime festivals announce lineups, Woody returns to acting, rare Spartacus photos surface and more.
A rare Wellman one-sheet is discovered as part of a treasure-trove of early sound, pre-Code film posters in an attic in Pennsylvania.
Also: Hoberman on It’s Halftime in America and the prospects for “an Obama-inflected Hollywood cinema.”
Also: Tony Pipolo on Jean-Marie Straub and more best-of-2011 lists.
Lessons on how to be the man. (Not shown prerequisites: directing Air Mail, They Were Expendable, How the West Was Won.)
Photograph by Richard Avedon. Via everyday_i_show.
The Conspirator opens on a battlefield, corpse-strewn yet oddly spotless, where a wounded soldier tells a joke to another to keep his mind from fading. They’re rescued and the joke is cut short
There is a terrific series titled ”Auto-Remakes” starting today at Anthology Film Archives in New York. The series, which runs through March 31, pairs films made and remade by the same director (in the