Daily Briefing. Slow Criticism 2012
David HudsonAlso: Bordwell on John le Carré, Denby on the great actors of the silent era, profiles of Bardot, Sophia Loren, and more.
Tomas Alfredson
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Daily Briefing. Merv Bloch and "The Telephone Book"
David HudsonAlso: Teshigahara’s Pitfall in Chicago, news and great reads.
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Notebook Reviews: Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyGary Oldman, a bunch of bald guys, and a whole lot of typewriters star in this curio cabinet John le Carré adaptation.
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Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
David Hudson“For Alfredson the moral is contained in the aesthetic.”
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Venice 2011. Tomas Alfredson's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy"
David HudsonA very strong first round of reviews for Alfredson’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s classic novel.
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Ides of March" and other new posters
Adrian CurryAfter the feast of design from the 1920s and 30s over the past two weeks I thought it was time to return to the present and look at a few of the more interesting new and recent posters out there. First
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"Monsters," "Amer," "Bellamy," More
David HudsonJust as All Saints Day follows Halloween, so, too, does Claude Chabrol's quiet and gentle final film follow a raucous batch of scary stuff; then, the documentaries and a couple of highlights from the
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"Despicable Me," "The Girl Who Played with Fire," "Predators," "Winnebago Man," More
David HudsonWe've already got entries going on the two most interesting films opening today, Jacques Rivette's Around a Small Mountain (here) and Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right (here). Here's a sampling
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Now in theaters: "Let the Right One In" (Alfredson, Sweden)
Daniel KasmanAbove: Kåre Hedebrant as Oskar, thinking about what we wants to do to his classmate bullies. "Let the right one in" is a delicious phrase referring to the occult rule that a vampire cannot enter someone