Link of the day
Daniel KasmanThe new trailer for Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park. Click the image above to select viewing resolution.
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Charlton Heston is an axiom
Daniel Kasman"Charlton Heston is an axiom. He constitutes a tragedy in himself, his presence in any film being enough to instil beauty. The pent-up violence expressed by the sombre phosphorescence of his eyes, his
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Image series: faith, love, and goodbyes in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes” (UK, 1938)
Daniel KasmanFrom The Lady Vanishes; featuring Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood; directed by Alfred Hitchcock; cinematography by Jack Cox:The Lady Vanishes is currently available on DVD from The Criterion Collection
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Mark the date: essential film screenings in New York, Jan. 18 & Jan. 19
Daniel KasmanAbove: The behind the scenes mystery of Wordly Desires (2005).Bookended by screenings of two masterpieces by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2007’s best film, Syndromes and a Century, and 2004’s equally great
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanCritic and filmmaker Dan Sallitt’s original website has always been a great online resource, but evidently that was not nearly enough. Last year Sallitt started his own blog, Thanks for the Use of the
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Image of the day
Daniel KasmanAbove: Steve Zahn’s eyes burn through the camera’s focal length in Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn (2007), cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger.
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Mark the date: essential film screening in San Francisco
Daniel KasmanAbove: Françoise Lebrun surrounded by Jean-Pierre Léaud and Bernadette Lafont.As part of the film series True and False: Jeff Wall on Cinematography, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will be screening
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Soundtrack of the week
Daniel KasmanThis week’s notable soundtrack is for Jean-Luc Godard’s Nouvelle vague (France, 1990), which was tragically awarded the top undistributed film of the 1990s vote by Film Comment magazine (click here for
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanI sadly was not able to attend one of the harder-to-see films in BAM’s Max Ophüls’ series, his sole Dutch film, entitled The Trouble with Money (1936). Luckily, a good friend and excellent writer was
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanAbove: Monday morning in a lonely place, Gloria Graham and Humphrey Bogart…Some cinematic poetry for your Monday morning: Nicholas Ray, Bogart’s visibly aging face, Graham’s electricity, the soul of
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Now in production, Pedro Almodovar
Daniel KasmanI do not want to turn the Notebook into a news-heavy magazine, but when an auteur like Pedro Almodovar announces his new film, we sit up and take notice. Uncannily in tune with our link of the day posted
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanToday’s link is to Girish Shambu’s blog. While each post is always suffuse with interesting quotes, thoughts, and links relating to cinema, the comments section for each of Girish’s posts have gradually