Daily Briefing. Buñuel, Saura, Pialat, Preminger
David HudsonAlso: Carlos Saura on the films that have influenced him most and a couple of photo sets worth your time.
Maurice Pialat
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Notebook Reviews: Mia Hansen-Løve’s "Goodbye First Love"
Ben SachsOn the philosophy of Mia Hansen-Løve and the her 2011 feature.
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Daily Briefing. Senses of Cinema 62
David HudsonAlso: Richard Brody on Jerry Lewis, Johnnie To in Udine and more.
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Out of the Past 2011: Revival House Discoveries
Doug DibbernAn end-of-2011 celebration not of new films but of old films revived and seen throughout the year. Ozu, Marilyn Monroe, Raoul Walsh, oh my!
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Daily Briefing. "Commodified Cinema"
David HudsonAlso: Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Lumet, Wes Anderson and James Bridges on DVD.
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Out of the Past 2010: Some Favorite Film Double Features
David PhelpsWe at MUBI think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection
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DVDs. Pialat, von Sternberg, Laloux, More
David HudsonIn the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim writes that Maurice Pialat's first feature film, L'enfance nue (Naked Childhood, 1968), "out on DVD this week from the Criterion Collection, can be seen as a companion
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report Appendix: "À nos amours" (Pialat, 1983); Criterion and Eureka!/Masters of Cinema
Glenn KennyIn addition to its brilliant edition of Sous le soleil de Satan, March also sees Eureka!/MOC relelasing Pialat's À nos amours, which is perhaps his best-known film internationally. The painful and painstaking
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Sous le soleil de Satan" (Pialat, 1987)
Glenn KennySplendid title, Sous le soleil de Satan...that is, "under the sun of Satan," or, more colloquially, "under Satan's sun." A pretty plain statement, not unlike Satan Is Real, the unequivocating title of
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Video Sundays: The Rhythm of the Night
Daniel KasmanDancing defines the night: late night exhaustion, exultation, revere. Stay aloof or dive in as far as one can go. Corona-Denis-Lavant + Björk-Corona-Jimmy Cliff-Pialat-Depardieu-Pailhas (For Le
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Cineaste: Winter 2009
David Hudson"Its critical thunder eclipsed at the time by the more lushly funded Planet of the Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey (both of which brokered in discomfiting speculation about mankind's origins and destiny
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These/Those Damn Kids: Pialat's "Graduate First"
Glenn KennyMaurice Pialat's 1979 examination of adolescents on the verge of they-have-very-little-idea-what is both an exemplary and slightly anomalous work, anomalous primarily in terms of scope. Most of Pialat