Daily Briefing. "Bad Fever" and a New Mediascape
David HudsonAlso: Artificial Paradises, Turn Me On, Dammit!, Philip Kaufman, Cindy Sherman and more.
Samuel Fuller
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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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Dan Callahan's "Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman"
David Hudson“A serious book about a serious woman.”
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Notebook Reviews: Samuel Fuller's "House of Bamboo" (1955)
Fernando F. CroceSamuel Fuller in Japan, like tabloid ink sprayed on kakejiku scrolls.
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"Higher Ground," "Our Idiot Brother," More
David HudsonWhat the critics are saying about this week’s theatrical releases — and a few of last week’s as well.
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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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Dearden, Brooks, Gance, Harrington, Sabu, More
David Hudson"The title of Basil Dearden's London Underground, a four-DVD Eclipse Series box set from Criterion Collection covering the late 50s and early 60s work of the British director, is a bit deceptive
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Sam Fuller, Jodorowsky, "The Woodmans," More
David Hudson"Criterion's new editions of Shock Corridor (1963) and The Naked Kiss (64) form a sort diptych portrait of Fuller's transition from a career forged partly within the studios to one of arduous independence
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Fuller, Tarantino, Sarli, Hawks, Oliveira, Lou Ye, More
David Hudson"LACMA's weekend series Fuller at Fox zeroes in on a blazing trail of six signature works for Darryl Zanuck's (now-75-year-old) studio — what the director called 'a new period of creativity and
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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
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Preservation Blog-a-Thon, "Russia," Events, DVDs
David Hudson"According to estimates, at least 50 percent of all films made for public exhibition before 1951 have been lost," writes Marilyn Ferdinand. "Move into the silent era, and the estimate shoots up to
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Image of the day: Before & After
Pacze MojFrom Samuel Fuller's Merrill's Marauders (1962).