The Noteworthy: Locarno, Mini Cinema, Hoberman on Siodmak and "Hitchcock Presents"
Adam CookThis week: Locarno 2012, Ben Sachs on The Cat Returns, a defense of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, two pieces on Robert Siodmak + more.
Spike Jonze
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Daily Briefing. Global Roundup
David HudsonNews from Critics’ Week, Jeonju, Panama, Locarno, London…
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Watch "Scenes from the Suburbs" for Free
David HudsonWATCH SCENES FROM THE SUBURBS FOR FREE. 2 DAYS ONLY. Arcade Fire released their Grammy and Brit award-winning album The Suburbs last August, and now, nearly a year later, the Deluxe
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Cannes 2011. Critics' Week
David HudsonUpdated through 5/21 — with awards announcements. As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective
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Nothing's Perfect: "Where the Wild Thing Are" & "Fantastic Mr. Fox"
Ryland Walker KnightWhere The Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox are new to DVD this month, offering viewers more at home opportunities to grapple with their different approaches to how we might define a "children
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DVDs. "The Pleasure of Being Robbed," Spike Jonze and Hayao Miyazaki
David Hudson"Too often there's nothing but ego at the center of today's micro-indies," writes Michael Atkinson at IFC, "but Joshua Safdie's The Pleasure of Being Robbed isn't merely slacker realism or geysering
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Film Comment, Chopin, Oscars
David Hudson"Tony Grisoni adapted 1974 [directed by Julian Jarrold] from the first novel in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet, named for a Grimm's fairytale, the color of blood, and the West Riding district of Yorkshire
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Giving A Second Shot To "Where The Wild Things Are"
Glenn KennyIt is not common practice for a film reviewer, or film writer, or, not to split hairs, a film critic, to reveal the state of mind he or she was in when seeing a film. Nor to necessarily admit that said
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The Auteurs Daily: Where the Wild Things Are
David HudsonSpike Jonze and Wes Anderson, born just months apart in 1969, have both adapted classic children's books this year. Anderson, who often frames his meticulously arranged sets as if they were pages from