Starting today, and for most of April, Film Forum in New York will be honoring five of Japan’s greatest actresses in a portmanteau retrospective entitled 5 Japanese Divas. The divas in question are Setsuko
Lovers on the run: Ex-con Eddie Taylor (Henry Fonda) and his wife, Joan Graham (Sylvia Sidney), in a publicity still for Fritz Lang's You Only Live Once (1937), unknown photographer; cinematography on
This stunning French grande poster for The Lodger (the 1944 John Brahm version, not the 1927 Hitchcock, though based on the same Jack the Ripper novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes which has been adapted five
Photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
There is a terrific series titled ”Auto-Remakes” starting today at Anthology Film Archives in New York. The series, which runs through March 31, pairs films made and remade by the same director (in the
Photograph by Scott Caan.
A year or so ago, while writing about the brilliant poster for Alain Resnais’s most recent film, Wild Grass, I was a little disparaging of other recent Resnais posters with their wacky ensemble montages
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Call it the Napoleon Dynamite effect. It may have been used before that, but ever since that 2004 phenomenon, the photo-doodle montage has been pretty ubiquitous in movie posters. Also popularized in the
The headline may seem obvious in these incredible days of surplus moving images (in both senses of the term) of the Middle Eastern revolutions, but let's not forget within the immediacy of the action
At 1:15pm last Friday I abandoned a prime piece of New York real estate. Christian Marclay’s 24-hour installation The Clock had been running for the previous four weeks at the Paula Cooper Gallery in
Collecting my favorite posters from this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, one thing struck me: that I hadn’t actually managed to see any of the films these posters were advertising. With