Film Comment Selects 2012
David Hudson“We sort of do the lineup by the seat of our pants.”
Mike Leigh
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Daily Briefing. Nicolas Roeg and Mike Leigh
David HudsonMore names in the news: Stephen Chow, Walker Percy and VF Perkins.
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Daily Briefing. Bright Lights 74
David HudsonAlso: New essays up at the Chiseler; and there’s a new book out, Gary Cooper: Enduring Style.
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Daily Briefing. Manohla Dargis on the Avant-Garde in LA
David HudsonAlso: Bill Simmons on Eddie Murphy and an overview of several projects in the works.
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Cannes 2011. Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty"
David HudsonUpdated through 5/18. "'Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina is a temple.' With these words, Sleeping Beauty establishes the ground rules and sets the scene for a bizarre sexual nightmare
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"Topsy-Turvy," World Picture 5, More
David Hudson"Topsy-Turvy is both an anomaly among the films of Mike Leigh and, contrary as it may seem, a Rosetta stone." Writing for Criterion, Amy Taubin explains how it can be both and adds a third vital aspect
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"The Time That Remains," Film Comment, More
David HudsonWe'll get to what all else is online from the new issue of Film Comment in a moment, but first, here's Joumane Chahine on a film playing at the IFC Center in New York through Tuesday: "Although it
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"Another Year," "Blue Valentine," More
David Hudson"Class consciousness has frequently played a role in Mike Leigh's films, and not only because, as a storyteller whose native terrain is modern Britain, he can hardly hope to avoid it," writes AO
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"Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench," Events, More
David Hudson"No sort of motion picture is more stylized, utopian, or fun to theorize than the musical," writes the Voice's J Hoberman. "As an exercise in orchestrated time, each and every movie aspires to the state
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NYFF 2010. Mike Leigh's "Another Year"
David Hudson"Mike Leigh is often accused of talking down to his characters," notes Slant's Ed Gonzalez. "With Another Year, this fan of the British auteur can see why. Leigh's latest is a lovingly told but insufficiently
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Cannes 2010. House Calls: "Another Year" (Mike Leigh, UK)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Peter Wight Lesley Manville in Mike Leigh's Another Year. Like waves crashing against a seawall, lonesome singles are drawn to but inevitably break in the face of a happy marriage in Mike Leigh’s Another
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Cannes 2010. Favorite Moments: Day 4
Daniel KasmanAnother Year (Mike Leigh, UK) There are a lot of sad figures in Leigh's film, and while it centers on Lesley Manville's skittish, lonely neurotic Mary, I quite liked the lumpy sadsackism of