MUBI Presents: "Bastards of Hitch" in New York
Ben SimingtonThis August in NYC, a program of six films influenced by the Master of Suspense by such directors as De Palma, Saul Bass and Fincher.
Nicholas Roeg
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Raffaello Matarazzo, "People on Sunday" and More DVDs
David Hudson"It's easy to enjoy Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas for the campy excess of their acting and story lines," blogs Dave Kehr, "but it's more productive to take them seriously, I think — to see how
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Nicolas Roeg, Les Blank, Fassbinder and More
David HudsonWith Insignificance (1985) out from Criterion last week (see the roundup), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) opening at Film Forum in New York tomorrow and, in the UK, Don't Look Now (1973) out on Blu
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Fassbinder, De Sica, Roeg and More DVDs
David HudsonUpdated. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the
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Rappaport, Truffaut, Chabrol, Cassavetes, Roeg
David HudsonNew York's Anthology Film Archives introduces its series, The Films of Mark Rappaport, running today through Thursday: "Rappaport's career has unfolded in two distinct chapters, the first consisting
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Sontag and More DVDs; Top British Films and More Lists
David Hudson"If there is one aspect of Susan Sontag's multifaceted life that has resisted enshrinement, it is her film career." In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim addresses the impact of her film criticism before
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DVDs. Zwigoff, Walsh + "Sunset Blvd" @ 60
David Hudson"A habitual crank with a pronounced antisocial streak and an aversion to mainstream culture, the director Terry Zwigoff has one of the most distinctive sensibilities in American movies," writes Dennis
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DVDs. Oshima, "Walkabout," "Stagecoach," More
David Hudson"Often called Japan's greatest living filmmaker, Nagisa Oshima, now 78, kept up a furious pace through the first half of his career, cranking out 18 films in 14 years," writes Dennis Lim in the