Echoes #8
NotebookRemarkable visual and audio rhyming between Todd Haynes’ Safe and David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.
Todd Haynes
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Daily Briefing. "Film socialisme" Cruise Ship Runs Aground
David HudsonAlso: Theo Angelopoulos, Alberto Lattuada and Jean-Pierre Gorin on DVD.
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Daily Briefing. Spielberg's "War Horse" and Crowe's "Zoo"
David HudsonAlso: Reitman’s Young Adult. Masters of Cinema’s Touch of Evil Blu-ray. Teaser for Miike’s Ai To Makoto.
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Raffaello Matarazzo, "People on Sunday" and More DVDs
David Hudson"It's easy to enjoy Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas for the campy excess of their acting and story lines," blogs Dave Kehr, "but it's more productive to take them seriously, I think — to see how
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Mothers and Movies
Michael Guillen"Mothers of America, let your kids go to the movies! ...It's true that fresh air is good for the body but what about the soul that grows in darkness, embossed by silvery images?"—Frank
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Todd Haynes's "Mildred Pierce"
David Hudson"It's not your mother's Mildred Pierce," declares David Ehrenstein in the LA Weekly. "Todd Haynes's five-part HBO miniseries isn't a 'remake' of the Joan Crawford classic or a radical reworking of
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Cinema Scope, Film Comment, Cineaste, Offscreen
David HudsonSuddenly this weekend, generous samplings from a slew of new issues from some of the best film magazines around have appeared online. In this brisk overview, let's start with Cinema Scope, in which
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Todd Haynes @ 50
David HudsonOne of the more intriguing projects we have to look forward to this year is Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce, a five-part miniseries airing on HBO in March and featuring Kate Winslet. Michael Curtiz's
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"Poison," World Cinema Foundation, Film Comment, More
David Hudson"Arguably the strongest American debut feature of the 90s, Todd Haynes's Poison — aptly billed as telling 'three tales of transgression and punishment' and now restored in 35mm for its 20th anniversary