Here in Germany, where The White Ribbon has been in theaters for a couple of weeks now, Michael Haneke was on television last night. There's a strict format to Alexander Kluge's News & Stories
"Like most issues of Bright Lights, this one doesn't have a particular theme, though we wish you readers would start referring to our approach as 'serendipity' (perhaps 'charming serendipity'?) rather
We're going to get this year's New York Film Festival wrapped before Christmas. That's a promise. Today, on the occasion of Glenn Kenny's interview with Catherine Breillat: Bluebeard, which Glenn
This weekend's Halloween-y releases, led by The House of the Devil and the likely box office winner, Michael Jackson's This Is It, are covered here; see below for a roundup of current festivals, events
"The American Film Institute's decision to transform its venerable fall film showcase (October 30 - November 7) from a paid event into a gratis one is an unprecedented gesture for a festival of this
Halloween is at least twice as fun when October 31 falls on a weekend as it does this year and, while I mentioned a few related goings on at the beginning of the month, no Halloween roundup comes close
Studios and renegade teams of independent filmmakers alike are chasing each other into theaters this weekend, scrambling to get a head start on the potentially lucrative Halloween business - though
"My favorite film of the last two years, Hong Sang-soo's Bam gua nat (Night and Day), is getting a one-week run at Anthology Film Archives, starting this Friday," announces Dan Sallitt, and for more
Earlier this month, when Elizabeth Taylor announced on Twitter that she was checking in for heart surgery (it all "went off perfectly," as she let us know a few days later), the London Times turned
"Like his earlier documentary, Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? on seminal filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at work on Sicilia!," begins Acquarello, "Pedro Costa's Ne change rien plays
Reading Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, David Thomson, writing in the New Republic, can see that Mitchell Zuckoff "grasps the way in which Altman was always inclined to make a battleground of his
"Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé is most renowned for Yeelen, an African epic that's as entertaining as Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings trilogy while engaging intellectually with its mythological