The Forgotten: The End of History
David Cairns"There are no friends anymore." In August 1967, filmmaker Richard Lester's chauffeur called at the home of playwright Joe Orton to collect him for a script conference about a Rolling Stones
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pages from a cold island: (NO) FEAR OF FLYING
Neil YoungYou may be wary of fallen starsThey're always poking around in the darkThe aerial view of a dying manScreaming out "Can you help me, invisible man?"—The Auteurs, Fear of Flying (1996)"[As] long
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Tuesday Morning Foreign [But Not Foreign-Region] [Blu-ray disc] DVD Report: "Primitive London" (Arnold L. Miller, 1965)
Glenn KennyFinally...a motion picture that blows the lid off...BOWLING! No kidding. At one point in this droll exploitation "documentary," a made-in-Britain variant of the various "Mondo" films that had been sweeping
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A Digital Fugitive: Interview with Pedro Costa
Daniel KasmanAn interview with the filmmaker from Cannes upon the release of Ne change rien.
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What is the 21st Century?: The Modern Director, Pt. 1
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Michael Bay on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. "Who is
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Moon"
Adrian CurryWhat is it with circles? Three of the best new movie posters of 2009—The Girlfriend Experience, The Limits of Control and now Moon—are awash with them. For Moon it makes perfect graphic sense. Directed
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Topics/Questions/Exercises of the Week — 12 June 2009
Glenn KennyNever Count An Auteur Out: Don't let the mere 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes bamboozle you—Francis Ford Coppola is back. His self-financed, self-distributed Tetro is a hit with the critics who count
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Image of the day: Before & After
Pacze MojFrom Samuel Fuller's Merrill's Marauders (1962).
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The Forgotten: Sister Act
David CairnsCharles Vidor, no relation to the more celebrated King, made Gilda, ensured himself a place in the film history books with a slick and thematically fascinating noir which dazzles from the moment Glenn
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Capital, it fails us now: "The Wages Of Fear" in the post-imperial age
Glenn KennyOut of town; my work takes me out of town. I empty villages. I burn their houses down. I set up factories. Lay out plantations And bring prosperity to the poorer nations. —Art Bears, "The Song
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Chase A Crooked Shadow" (Anderson, 1958)
Glenn KennyWhat an interesting puzzle the directorial career of Michael Anderson makes. In 1955 he directs The Dam Busters, one of the most exacting…
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The Details: Follow the Arrow ("Man Hunt," Lang)
Daniel KasmanThe Details is a column that catches the small within the big, focusing on the individual elements that make cinema so expressive. *** One fascinating point made by Tom Gunning's masterful book The Films