Doctor Destouches, Léos Carax, and the "Emotive Account"
retinalechoesA look at Léos Carax’s The Lovers on the Bridge and the poetics it shares with the literature of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Léos Carax
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The Noteworthy: R.I.P. Nagisa Oshima (1932-2013), The Formative Years of Cinema, Foreign Languages
Adam CookThe great Nagisa Oshima has passed away, Senses of CInema has a new World Poll, David Bordwell on the evolving cinema of 1908-1920, & more.
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Notebook's 5th Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2012
Daniel KasmanIn our annual poll, we pair our favorite new films of 2012 with older films seen in the same year to create fantastic double features.
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What is the 21st Century?: Hear This, It's Real
Ignatiy VishnevetskyA look at live-sung musical numbers, past and present.
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Virtual Refractions 1: "Holy Motors" (The Living Screen)
David PhelpsDecoding the dharma of Denis Lavant’s cosmic ascent to The Real World.
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The Noteworthy: La Furia Umana, The Best of Sarris, and Fassbinder in America
Adam CookThis week: two major film magazines unveil their new issues, Adam Nayman reveals why Jaws is the “greatest movie ever made”, and more…
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Notebook Cannes Notebook #1
NotebookThe first of an aborted Festival de Cannes project of handing out sheets of paper to attendees and asking for immediate reactions to films.
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Cannes 2012. Days 10-11, Essential Reads
Adam CookThe festival arrives at a close, with films in competition from David Cronenberg, Sergei Loznitsa, Im Sang-soo, and Jeff Nichols.
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Cannes 2012. Films by Takashi Miike, Leos Carax, Jaime Rosales
Daniel KasmanThree standous: a school musical brawl film by Miike, an episodic, shapeshifting nightcrawl by Carax, and fragments of grief from Rosales.
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Cannes 2012. Days 8-9, Essential Reads
Adam CookLéos Carax’s long-awaited return to Cannes is a loud one, and Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenabras Lux sounds like a divisive highlight.
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Daily Briefing. Benoît Jacquot's "Farewell, My Queen" to Open the Berlinale
David HudsonAlso: Even as the 2011 lists keep coming, we’ve begun to look ahead to 2012.
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Daily Briefing. Vintage Stones, Lichtenstein and Slapstick
David HudsonAlso: Gaza filmmakers head to Austin to see a movie in a theater for the first time.