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Some Notes on "Made in U.S.A.": It's All True
David PhelpsMade in USA is, like about all Godard’s works, just a documentary of a time, of some places, of some people. A home movie bearing witness to 1967, politically, personally—and the two, here, are
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The World of Wiseman: "High School" (1968)
Dave McDougallThe first in a continuing series on the films of Frederick Wiseman. "On the night of December 6th, police shot 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in cold blood in the Eksarhia district of Athens
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Some notes on "Made in USA": Conspiracies and Correspondences
David PhelpsAnd freedom, when everything’s fenced into place? All that Heaven Allows Godard has two answers, at least. Certainly, there’s a worry, as in Oshima and Kubrick movies, that doubling—one character reflected
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László Szabó Remembers
Glenn KennyOn Friday, January 9, New York's Film Forum begins a two-week run of Jean-Luc Godard's legendary 1966 Made in USA, the director's final film starring his by-then ex-wife Anna Karina, an off-the-cuff
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Some notes on "Made in USA": Detective
David PhelpsOne of the greatest mysteries of Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in USA (1966) is just what the mystery is. Ex-journalist Anna Karina slinks around in a trenchcoat asking about an old lover who’s disappeared, is
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The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: David Phelps
David PhelpsEach of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
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When Change Meant Change: Revisiting 1930s Chinese Leftist Cinema
Edwin MakThe recent issue of UCLA’s Asia Pacific Arts Magazine has a timely new feature on: 'Social Change in Asian film'. As the authors themselves admitted, it was an editorial inspired by the latest presidential
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Oshima: A World of Their Own (Chasing Shadows, Take Four of Four)
David PhelpsThe final in a four part series of articles on director Nagisa Oshima.
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The Forgotten: I Stab Sane
David CairnsABSENTIAS "Switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive: this is really quite important." Some filmmakers, alas, are forgotten when they die, but some are forgotten even before. Michael Powell spent most
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A completely false security: an interview with Kelly Reichardt
Zachary WigonWhen Old Joy was released in 2006 and many people in the independent film community had never heard of Kelly Reichardt before (she hadn’t made a feature in 12 years), there were two common reactions to
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The Fearful Symmetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salò"
Ben SimingtonThe Fearful Symmetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Salò”