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.
Otto Preminger
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Daily Briefing. Getino/Solanas, Dickens, Ehrenstein, Dyer
David HudsonYour weekend roundup.
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Daily Briefing. Guy Maddin's "SPIRITISMES" + Gene Tierney and More
David HudsonAlso: Ross Douthat, film critic. Woody Allen on Broadway. Whit Stillman at Harvard. And Orson Welles performs Shakespeare on the radio.
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Daily Briefing. New Cineaste and More Fine Reading
David HudsonAlso: Top animators sign on for an adaptation of Gibran’s The Prophet and the doc Liv and Ingmar is set for the fall.
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Daily Briefing. Oberhausen Manifesto @ 50
David HudsonAlso: Locarno to fête Preminger. 2011 lists from Cinema Scope, Sight & Sound and Reverse Shot. And more.
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Preminger's "Laura" @ Film Forum NYC
David Hudson“Strange by even film noir standards” — J Hoberman
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Daily Briefing. Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism 3
David HudsonAlso: Sight & Sound’s Gilbert Adair archive, new restorations from the National Film Preservation Foundation and more.
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Daily Briefing. RS 30 + PM's 100 + the 70s
David HudsonA new Reverse Shot symposium, a PopMatters guide to the essentials and a handful of reads on the New Hollywood of the 70s.
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"Araya," "Pale Flower" and More DVDs
David Hudson"Margot Benacerraf, now in her 80s, only ever made one feature-length film," begins Josef Braun, "but that film remains so extraordinary, so very nearly singular, that it merits an admiration on par
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Iranian Cinema, "Useful Life," "Petition," Baillie, Thome, More
David HudsonThe Boston Festival of Films from Iran opens tomorrow and runs through January 29 and, in his overview for the Phoenix, Peter Keough opens with a brief synopsis of "one of the best entries," Mohammad
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Out of the Past: Five Old Flames
Ryland Walker KnightWe 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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Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—13 November 2009
Glenn KennyOn The Evolution Of CinemaScope: Or, of you're going to be a stickler about names of formats and such, "The 2.35:1 Or So Aspect Ratio." Above: The Robe (Henry Koster, 1953). Above: Bonjour Tristesse