The Noteworthy: "Something Necessary", Aleksei German (1938-2013), Sallitt & Cairns, 7th/11
Adam CookA special MUBI screening of Something Necessary, films by Cairns and Sallitt, a new issue of The Seventh Art, Bordwell on Richie + more.
A special MUBI screening of Something Necessary, films by Cairns and Sallitt, a new issue of The Seventh Art, Bordwell on Richie + more.
A roundup focusing on the film program, particularly on new work by Luther Price and Werner Herzog.
Also: Adam Curtis on Dead of Night, life, the universe and everything. And more.
Of all the movies that have opened this weekend, the one that's generated the most interesting press by far is Page One: Inside The New York Times. The usual round of promotional interviews, for example
“Not much happened in Matthew Porterfield’s first film, Hamilton, which was sort of the point,” writes Paul Schrodt in Slant…
Above: the first Golden Donkey winner, Reha Erdem's Kosmos (2009). Little did the Ferroni Brigade anticipate the earth-shattering importance of the date, as it happily embarked towards the Sala Volpi
More of a supplement to Part 1 than a second half, this collection of roundups on films screening at Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin and SXSW this year is simply the result of my looking back at those four