Daily Briefing. Ömer Lütfi Akad, 1916 - 2011
David HudsonRemembering the pioneering Turkish director.
Roberto Rossellini
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Daily Briefing. Long-Form Polemics @ Idiom Film
David HudsonAlso: Elaine May interviews Ethan Coen and Woody Allen. Lubitsch in LA. New Alps trailer.
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Rossellini, Milestone @ 20, Daryush Shokof
David HudsonMoMA's Collaborations in the Collection series has been rolling along nicely since December 2007 and comes to a close on Monday. Curator Jenny He's concept might be read as a counter-argument to
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Some Kind of Realism: Rossellini's War Trilogy
Zach CampbellAbove: Germany Year Zero. Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. Many of the extras (interviews, visual essays) included in this Criterion DVD set are more or less standard, which is not to say unappreciated
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Roberto Rossellini's War Trilogy
David Hudson"In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Roberto Rossellini made three films that helped to lay the foundations of modern cinema: Rome Open City (1945), Paisan (1946) and Germany Year Zero (1948
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What is the 21st Century?: Uncertain Times
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the weekly column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: A good print of Rossellini's Vanina Vanini? An overcast Friday
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The Details: Roberto Rossellini's "Il Generale della Rovere"
Daniel KasmanThe Details is a column that catches the small within the big, focusing on the individual elements that make cinema so expressive. *** Twenty minutes into Roberto Rossellini’s Il Generale della Rovere
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Absolute Power Absolutely Contradicted: “The Taking of Power by Louis XIV”
Fernando F. CroceFor Roberto Rossellini, miracles and revolutions could be embodied in a gesture, an embrace, a sudden discovery. Throughout The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, the Italian filmmaker’s 1966 reconstruction
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Some Notes on "Made in U.S.A.": It's All True
David PhelpsMade in USA is, like about all Godard’s works, just a documentary of a time, of some places, of some people. A home movie bearing witness to 1967, politically, personally—and the two, here, are
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Now on DVD: "The Age of the Medici" (Rossellini, 1973)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Marcello Di Falco (center right) as Cosimo de' Medici. Credit: Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. Roberto Rossellini must have looked at the state of cinema in 1972 and shuddered at the artifice
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Quote of the day
David PhelpsDocumentary is the falsest sort of cinema. Reality has value only when it is transposed…
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Now on DVD: “Dov'è la libertà...?” (Rossellini, 1954) and “Blackout in Rome” (Rossellini, 1960)
Zach CampbellRoberto Rossellini’s mid-career output is best known for The Flowers of St. Francis or his Ingrid Bergman collaborations like Voyage to Italy. But we should welcome two films from the period have come