When considering the paucity of works by the filmmaking team of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub available in the DVD format, it behooves one to also consider the question of whether their works
After a nearly ten-year sojourn from the States, U.S.-born filmmaker Robert Kramer came back in 1987 with actor Paul McIsaac to create what one might call a semi-fictional documentary. With McIsaac embodying
Splendid title, Sous le soleil de Satan...that is, "under the sun of Satan," or, more colloquially, "under Satan's sun." A pretty plain statement, not unlike Satan Is Real, the unequivocating title of
Over the weekend My Lovely Wife and I attended a delightful barbecue in scenic Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. The hosts and most of the guests were all normal people—that is, not critics. Save for one
I recently interviewed a prominent—Oscar-winning, yet!—director for the DGA Quarterly, and the piece isn't yet published so I feel it wouldn't be quite cricket to discuss it overmuch, except
Sally Potter doesn't buy the dictum about how all you need to make a film is a girl and a gun. In the opening song for her 1983 debut feature The Gold Diggers, singing in tones that recall those of Dagmar
The films of director Allan Dwan—whose career was one of the longest and most fruitful in Hollywood history, ranging from 1911 to 1961—have multiple virtues to recommend them. But the one I tend to value
Josef von Sternberg's The Saga of Anahatan announces itself as "a postscript" to the Asian portion of World War II, and for many years the film itself has been regarded as a footnote in Sternberg's own
I can't recall precisely where and when I first saw Jean-Luc Godard's landmark 1964 picture Une femme mariée, but I know it wasn't until well after I had seen Alphaville, which came slightly after Une
"Life is disappointing." So goes the most common English translation of a famous line of dialogue in Ozu's Tokyo Story. As if to underscore that point, here is a British-released Region 2 Blu-ray disc
The two disc set from Artificial Eye called "The Early Works of Eric Rohmer" features two of his Six Moral Tales, the shorts La boulangère de Monceau and La carriere de Suzanne. (In addition it contains
With Peter Biskind's new and largely unfortunate biography of Warren Beatty creating some re-evaluation of the star-producer-director-writer's career, the very-nearly age-old question is coming up again