The Noteworthy: Critics Round Up, Soderbergh's Speech, Mekas' "Outtakes"
Adam CookA new movie review aggregator, a bunch of Cannes additions, Soderbergh on the state of cinema & more.
A new movie review aggregator, a bunch of Cannes additions, Soderbergh on the state of cinema & more.
More announcements from Cannes, Cronenberg is casting, an Images Festival report, the films of Marcel Hanoun & more.
A Letter to Momo in Japan, Hou Hsiao-hsien on Taiwanese cinema, Nicolas Rapold on Michael Glawogger, Ben Rivers’s playlist and more.
From Jonas Mekas comes a peripatetic nocturnal diary bound thematically by invocations of Dante, The Arabian Nights and Japanese haiku.
“The movie indulges a few too many whims, but it’s never less than alive.”
Also: Cinema Eye Honors nominees, London’s award-winners, SXSW’s panels and four projects in the works.
Here’s where we’ll be gathering news and reviews from this year’s edition.
Photo on the right: ©Syd M Updated through 6/3. "Seminal avant-garde filmmaker and retired Bard College professor Adolfas Mekas, who co-founded Film Culture magazine with his brother and fellow
"And all cinema — including Hollywood — reflects reality. In fact, sometimes the worse the film the more it reflects real life." Jonas Mekas recently took questions from graduate students in the Art
TIFF 2010. Wavelengths Preview
"For the first 20 or so years of its existence, the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival drew most heavily on the Israel-Germany-United States triumvirate for its programming," begins Michael Fox at
"Cinema is the art of appropriation — whether taking that which is before the camera or that which has already been filmed." J Hoberman in the Voice: "We'll never know who first discovered the