Jean-Pierre Melville's Final Film
Daniel KasmanJean-Pierre Melville’s last film, Un flic, is also a final film, one which travels to cinema’s edge and faces a void.
Robert Aldrich
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Movie Poster of the Week: Billy Wilder’s “Love in the Afternoon” and the Posters of Wojciech Fangor
Adrian CurryThe 1950s movie posters of one of Poland’s greatest artists, now aged 90.
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Daily Briefing. Avant-Garde Masters
David HudsonPreservation: Grants and a Blogathon. Plus, Bill Morrison, Kurt Kren, Susan Sontag and more.
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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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"Kiss Me Deadly" and More DVDs
David HudsonCriterion releases Kiss Me Deadly on DVD and Blu-ray today and, for the occasion, they're running an essay by J Hoberman adapted from his book, An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of
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Aldrich, Lustig, Safdies, Karpovsky
David HudsonTonight "the American Cinematheque will present Los Angeles moviegoers with a rare opportunity to see Robert Aldrich's masterful Emperor of the North (1973) projected on the Lloyd A Rigler Auditorium
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Ozu, Warner Archive, "Alamar," Anti-Biopics
David Hudson"By 1936, the year of Yasujiro Ozu's first feature-length talkie, The Only Son, the mature filmmaker of late masterpieces like Tokyo Story and Early Summer had become clearly recognizable, both