Daily Briefing. "Commodified Cinema"
David HudsonAlso: Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Lumet, Wes Anderson and James Bridges on DVD.
Also: Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Lumet, Wes Anderson and James Bridges on DVD.
Also: New essays up at the Chiseler; and there’s a new book out, Gary Cooper: Enduring Style.
The Ninth MOMA International Festival of Film Preservation, an evening at the San Francisco Cinematheque (it’s got a new blog!) and more.
Where The Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox are new to DVD this month, offering viewers more at home opportunities to grapple with their different approaches to how we might define a "children
In 2009 two of America’s most distinctive and high-profile auteurs perfect their film worlds through the total freedom offered by animation.
"The possibility of a digital, on-demand afterlife guarantees at least a theoretically universal long-tail immortality to blockbusters and curiosities alike. But this state of database nonoblivion
Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved book, opens the Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival (site) tonight and the first reviews are just coming in. Anderson's "last