Storming the West
Celluloid Liberation FrontWith Spaghetti Westerns, commercial cinema provided a lively and genuine commentary on the growing radicalization of the Italian left.
With Spaghetti Westerns, commercial cinema provided a lively and genuine commentary on the growing radicalization of the Italian left.
A roundup of Cannes news on the day before the lineup’s announced.
Also: David Bordwell on Joe Dante and Fortissimo at MoMA.
Favorites are emerging from the Venice slate. Projectorhead features Adrian Martin on Sergio Leone. Michel Gondry returns to France.
Criterion 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
"Disco and Dantean inferno, Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero portrays a dead-eyed survivor who is 'stayin' alive' during the bloody years of Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile." James Quandt for Artforum