"What is the famed 'Lubitsch touch' if not the quiet thrill of being in on the joke?" asks Matthew Connolly in Slant. "The director's penchant for sly elisions — the knowing pan away from imminent
No film review will be read more eagerly this week than Scott Foundas's piece for the cover of the September/October issue of Film Comment. Facebook, he writes — and he's not on it, by the way
A quiet Monday in August is a fine day to catch up with the current issue of Electric Sheep, whose theme is "Propaganda" and features Peter Momtchiloff on Alexander Dovzhenko's Earth (1930; image above
Alors. The opening gala film at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Illusionist is an animated film by Sylvain Chomet, who made The Triplets of Belleville, based on an unfilmed script