Above: Guy Debord's In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978), which plays in the Film Comment Selects 2009 program. Credit: The Film Society of Lincoln Center / agnès b. The Film Comment Selects
Above: Nina Hoss is Christian Petzold's Jerichow. There’s an immediately apparent irony to Cinematheque Ontario’s current retrospective of films from the so-called ‘Berlin School’, a group of loosely
Spectacles of suffering and sex, Finnish director Teuvo Tulio’s films are so similar in construction and theme that they run together like one long soap opera composed of a scattershot jumble of bucking
HOW TO FORGET The erosion of a reputation— The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935) is an unusual film, but we'll come to that. It affected some people deeply in its day, and was remembered...for
Of the 30 films I watched at the 2009 Berlinale, my favorite was Everyone Else, the second feature by Maren Ade (Forest for the Trees). The film chronicles an idyllic vacation that slowly introduces cracks
One of the most-celebrated passages of Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon is a sequence near the beginning of one of the main characters, the Woodcutter, walking through the woods, axe slung over shoulder, camera
Above: Encounters at the End of the World. “I have always thought of my films as really being one big work that I have been concentrating on for forty years,” Werner Herzog stated in Paul Cronin’s interview
Michel Ciment hits New York to preside over the “Mavericks and Outsiders: ‘Positif’ Celebrates American Cinema” series.
Delhi, being the capital of India, is the centre of art and culture. Where a person could attend a lecture on classical music in the morning, go for a book reading in the afternoon and watch a movie in
Above: Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in John M. Stahl's When Tomorrow Comes. Anthology Film Archives is performing a public service by showing three John M. Stahl films with their Douglas Sirk remakes;
After our first overview of the overlooked gems of the year, let's take a look together at the various joys and dissatisfactions of cinephilia in our respective city, your favourite places and events.I
Greetings Harry, Kevin, Andrew, Nitesh and Edwin,It seems that discussion of our favorite films, underexposed or otherwise, is naturally blending itself into one of how we saw them. As technology increases