The Noteworthy: New Senses, Nick Ray's Master Class, The Brakhage Lectures
Adam CookNew Senses of Cinema, a Nick Ray doc Kickstarter, Truffaut’s alternate titles for The 400 Blows, Stan Brakhage lectures & more.
Sergei Eisenstein
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Battleship Potemkin” and the Stenberg Brothers at Auction
Adrian CurryA look at a rare auction of Stenberg brothers posters of the 1920s.
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The Noteworthy: Interiors, Zona, and Shots in the Dark
Adam CookThis week we highlight a unique film journal, a couple of recent Q&As and a review of a new book on Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker.
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Berlinale 2012. Restored "October" + 12 "Special" Additions
David HudsonThe Special will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of Positif and the 50th of the Oberhausen Manifesto.
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Daily Briefing. Most Anticipated Films of 2012
David HudsonAlso: Universal @ 100. James Toback’s “totally unusual, inventive” movie and more.
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DVDs. Soviets and the Poor, Jennings and Kobayashi
David HudsonNew discs from Flicker Alley, Edition Filmmuseum, the BFI, Masters of Cinema and Criterion.
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DVDs. Jean Vigo, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Lee Chang-dong, More
David HudsonFilms by Fassbinder and Eisenstein are also out this week on DVD and Blu-ray.
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"The Robber," "13 Assassins," "Thor" and More
David Hudson"What makes Johann run — and rob?" asks Melissa Anderson in the Voice. "Benjamin Heisenberg's second feature is as taut, lean, and fleet as its title character, played by Andreas Lust and based
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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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Godard and Karina, Assayas and Denis, More Festivals, More DVDs
David HudsonCity of Lights, City of Angels, Los Angeles' festival of new French films, is on through the weekend and Anna Karina will be there on Friday for a screening of a new, digitally restored edition
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Film Canons
Pacze MojIn the September 2006 issue of Film Comment, writer-director-critic Paul Schrader wrote a 16-page history/defense of film canons that ended with a proposed film canon of his own. The films Schrader selected