Image of the day
Daniel KasmanFrom Oyu-sama (1951); featuring Kinuyo Tanaka and Nobuko Otowa; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi; cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa: *** In honor of The Masters of Cinema 2-disc release of Oyu-sama and Ugetsu
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Pecha Kucha, San Francisco (Mar 26, 2008): Essential Art House
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The small differences between 1997 and 2007.
Daniel Kasman1997:2007:Object: Trailers for Funny Games, directed by Michael Haneke.
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Mainstream American avant-garde
Daniel KasmanAbove: Emile Hirsch in the Wachowski brothers' new film, Speed Racer. It exists, but except for the occasionally adventurous commentary on a Michael Bay or Tony Scott film, one rarely sees anyone take
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Image series: Nora inu, sans personnes
matthew swiezynskiAkira Kurosawa's Stray Dog (Nora inu), 1949 Cinematography: Asakazu Nakai Assistant director: Ishiro Honda(moments without human presence)"I had Ishiro Honda do mainly second-unit shooting. Every day
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanKevin Lee has started blogging NYU's conference on “The Responsibility of Film Criticism” over at Shooting Down Pictures. Last night there were introductory remarks by Cinema Studies department head Richard
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Poster of the week
Daniel KasmanAbove: Irma Vep (Assayas, 1996)
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanRounding out the coverage of the 2008 Berlin Film Festival, GreenCine Daily editor David Hudson, whom I finally had the pleasure to meet at the Berlinale, has turned in an epic summary of his festival
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Mark the date: essential film screening in New York, March 7
Daniel KasmanAs part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's awesome retrospective, The Talking Pictures of Manoel de Oliveira, the 99-year old director will himself present his latest film, the intriguingly titled Christopher
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Happy Birthday Jacques Rivette!
efeMaking masterpieces at 80 years old! Our hats are off!
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanVideoarcadia has a fitting image-essay tribute to Rivette's 80th birthday today. Click the image above to see the rest of his epic series.
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Quote of the day
Daniel Kasman...people who go to, say, one film every two weeks and tell themselves, "I will see the great films, but not the others, not the commercial movies," I think those people have no chance of really seeing