Ken Loach @ 75
David HudsonEven as he turns 75 today, Ken Loach carries on working. The BBC spotted him just the other day shooting in a Scottish distillery; his next project, The Angels' Share, is evidently "about a troublemaker
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70s Musicals, Human Rights Watch and More
David Hudson"A downbeat homage to bright-lights showbiz dramas, an epic orchestration that indulges in stubbornly obsessive riffs, Martin Scorsese's New York, New York (1977) seems to value awkwardness and indecision
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Frameline35 + Kinski and Japanese Divas
David HudsonThe 35th edition of the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, or Frameline35, opens tonight with Rashaad Ernesto Green's Gun Hill Road (image above) and runs through June 26 — Gay Pride
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Los Angeles Film Festival 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 6/27. This year's Los Angeles Film Festival, running through June 26, opens tonight with the latest from Richard Linklater, and Steven Zeitchik talks with him for the Los Angeles Times
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BAMcinemaFEST 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 6/26. "The golden age of New York moviegoing is now," argues AO Scott in the New York Times. "Two events in the coming days offer confirmation of this hunch." Tonight "in Brooklyn the
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"David Holzman's Diary"
David HudsonUpdated. "In the crawlspace between the mockumentary and the documentary, there exists a group of movies that can tentatively be described as 'false cinema,'" suggests Jaime N Christley in Slant. "They
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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 6/20. The 65th edition of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (site) officially opens tonight with a screening of John Michael McDonagh's The Guard and runs through June 26. "In
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Peter Schamoni, 1934 - 2011
David Hudson"The old film is dead. We believe in the new one." So reads one translation of the Oberhausen Manifesto, a crucial document in the eventual evolution of the New German Cinema of the 70s and early 80s
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Fassbinder, De Sica, Roeg and More DVDs
David HudsonUpdated. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the
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Gunnar Fischer, 1910 - 2011
David HudsonUpdated. "Gunnar Fischer, a cinematographer whose use of stark lighting and sharp focus lent mood and psychological depth to a dozen of Ingmar Bergman's early films, including The Seventh Seal and Wild
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Béla Tarr, Japan Cuts, Summer of Silents
David HudsonA couple of weeks ago, The Cinema Guild announced that it had acquired US distribution rights to what, for me at any rate, remains the best new film of the year so far, Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse
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John Mackenzie, 1928 - 2011
David Hudson"People who talk wistfully of the 'golden age of British television drama' are often accused of viewing the past through the rosy lens of nostalgia," writes Ronald Bergan in the Guardian. "But a clear