Above: "Don't call me 'The Connoisseur;' call me Chubsy-Ubsy!": Kenny in Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience. The Auteurs' Notebook contributor Glenn Kenny makes his screen acting debut as "The
Above: Eilif Bremer Landsend's Last Stop. (for Robert Schuman) Satin ribbons, velvet cushions, plastic roses, hand-painted landscapes, fresh stuffed sausage, knotholes, grapefruit, pimples, hair, slugs
Above: Stanley Kubrick's final film, Eyes Wide Shut. “Late Films,” BAM’s new series is titled, as a series of neglected films made late in major directors’ careers, but as if the films themselves were
Above: Lake Tahoe. Now that the 52nd edition of the San Francisco International Film Festival is well on its way, let us consider the boon and bane of the 75-word hold review capsule. There are 40
Above: Sono Sion's Love Exposure. Two incidents in a friend’s life inspired Sono Sion to make Love Exposure, according to the Hong Kong International Film Festival catalogue. The first was in the
Bruises from your head to your toeThere are marks all over you There's no place for you to hideSince they painted you black and blueThe Auteurs: 'Life Classes / Life Model' (1994)Francis Bacon's engagement
"I should rub-a-dub!" The late work of Stanley Donen presents difficulties. The Little Prince (1973) strikes me as a kind of masterpiece, just not a very good one. As a children's film, it's wasted
Why windows? (Maybe there aren’t that many.) The Sun Shines Bright (1953), like so many John Ford movies, takes place in a small town; but while most of Ford’s towns are makeshift civilizations
An interview with the French director of 35 rhums.
To Be Anal About It For years we’ve been wondering not what is cinema, but who: Hitchcock or Renoir? Watch the minor masterpieces enough—La Nuit du carrefour, Madame Bovary, the first and final acts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "What she learns is that love simply exists
Above: The Master, Carl Th. Dreyer. *** The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31