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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report, Villanelle Edition: "Cluny Brown" (Lubitsch, 1946)
Glenn KennyCluny Brown, this film was Ernst Lubitsch’s last; A paragon of wit and of sophisticated charm… A Nineteen-Forty-Six film gazing into a European past;(’38, to be precise…) A Fox Production with an eclectic
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NYFF08: Gathering the world's films
Daniel KasmanAbove: South Korean director Hong Sang-soo's masterful, mournful sex comedy, Night and Day, reviewed from Berlin. Many films in the 2008 New York Film Festival have been covered on the Notebook in one
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Toronto International Film Festival 2008, round-up
Daniel KasmanMy favorite films of the festival, in order of preference:01 Horizontal Boundries (O'Neill) 02 Winter and Saraband (Dorsky) 03 Liverpool (Alonso) 04 35 Rhums (Denis) 05 The Sky Crawlers (Oshii) 06
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Viennale x Jean-Luc Godard
Daniel KasmanJean-Luc Godard's trailer for the 2008 Viennale can be found here. Many thanks to Andy Rector for the heads-up.
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For (good) titles instead of (bad) films
Daniel KasmanTo grasp just how uncinematic Vicky Cristina Barcelona is, one doesn't even need to see it to appreciate it's one brilliant conception: the movie's title. What is it about Allen's title that seems so
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Quote of the day
Daniel KasmanThat's just a bit too much Simmons" -Jean Simmons, after a clip reel including Great Expectations, Hamlet, Angel Face, and Elmer Gantry, at her tribute at the 2008 Telluride Film Festival.We say: there
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Image of the day
Daniel KasmanFrom Secret Beyond the Door (1948); directed by Fritz Lang; cinematography by Stanley Cortez:
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Image series: The agony and the ethics
Daniel KasmanRobert Aldrich (Kiss Me Deadly, The Dirty Dozen) has never been about pre-made rules, or a world where morals and behavior are measured by a set standard. There is a reason why so many of Alrich's movies
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September's essential cinema: New York's MoMA
Daniel KasmanBela Tarr's The Man from London, September 22-26Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light, September 24-29Carl Th. Dreyer's Gertrud, September 25-28
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Images of the day
Daniel KasmanA tribute/revision of Vertigo, where the head of a man (who in this shot seems a movie theater spectator, but in the film is also a movie director) is digitally overlapped on footage of a coastal lighthouse
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Video of the day
Daniel KasmanA kiss for the ages, and an unforgettable attack against cynicism, irony, and sarcasm in the cinema.From Desire (1936); featuring Gary Cooper and Marlene Dietrich; directed by Frank Borzage; produced by