"For convinced auteurists, Jacques Prévert comes as something of a stumbling block. With Prévert as scriptwriter, Marcel Carné directed several supreme classics of French cinema; when the two split up
What, you've never seen Vera Chytilova's 1966 Daisies, a touchstone of the Czech New Wave that could perhaps best be described as a feminist, psychedelic, surreal Eastern European answer film to Howard
When word first emerged, seemingly shortly after the dawn of the aughts, of a new Bela Tarr project—to be made, as all of his post-Satantango films have been, in such close collaboration with his editor
Where does this film fall within the chronology of gangsterdom, American style? Somewhere in between this week's much-anticipated Public Enemies (and its actual chronological precursors, such as two
As triumph-of-the-human-spirit tales go, Kon Ichikawa's 1963 Taiheiyo hitori-botchi (distributed in some countries as My Enemy The Sea; the producers of this Eureka!/Masters of Cinema DVD editon go with
Finally...a motion picture that blows the lid off...BOWLING! No kidding. At one point in this droll exploitation "documentary," a made-in-Britain variant of the various "Mondo" films that had been sweeping
What an interesting puzzle the directorial career of Michael Anderson makes. In 1955 he directs The Dam Busters, one of the most exacting…