In memoriam Patrick McGoohan...
Neil YoungAbove: Patrick McGoohan (far left) and Stanley Baker (right). Four decades on, Hell Drivers (Endfield, UK, 1957) still works as a no-nonsense action thriller, and an ideal vehicle for its star, Stanley
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Some notes on "Made in USA": Conspiracies and Correspondences
David PhelpsAnd freedom, when everything’s fenced into place? All that Heaven Allows Godard has two answers, at least. Certainly, there’s a worry, as in Oshima and Kubrick movies, that doubling—one character reflected
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The Forgotten: The Apocalypse of St. Andrzej
David CairnsThe First Part Andrzej Zulawski swings his camera like a steel fist. Indeed, right at the start of his first feature, The Third Part of the Night (1971), after a soldier on horse back has ridden right
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Some notes on "Made in USA": Unreal City
David PhelpsAtlantic City (Made in USA’s Paris suburb theme park), 1967, and the revolutionaries, like filmmakers, are dreamers. Dreaming, if they’re the nouveaux réalistes or the situationists, of tearing down reality
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "The Comfort of Strangers" (Schrader, 1990)
Glenn KennyLooking at The Comfort of Strangers nearly 20 years after its release, and shortly after the death of its screenwriter Harold Pinter, one is, first off, inclined to rue the fact that Pinter and director
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Mooning over Marins, or, "Rock me, Joe!"
Neil Young2009 has - as we know - only just started, but I for one will be pleasantly surprised if the year yields a more informative, entertaining, skilfully-written piece on cinema than Christoph Huber's interview
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Barack Obama's Favorite Films
efeBarack Obama lists these films as some of his favorites. We usually think one's personal tastes are an insight into who they are. Do these say something about US' President-elect? (Source: Obama's Facebook
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Anatomy of Saul Bass
matthew swiezynskiSaul Bass titles on Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, 1959
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Comment on The Auteurs
Daniel KasmanCritic, scholar, translator, and all around great guy Paul Fileri writes, among other things, the Sites Specific column for Film Comment. For the Jan/Feb issue, Paul was kind enough to highlight The Auteurs
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Image for the weekend
Daniel KasmanFrom Night Train (Poland, 1959); featuring Lucyna Winnicka; directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz; cinematography by Jan Laskowski. Image courtesy of one of The Notebook's favorite blogs, sixmartinis and the
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László Szabó Remembers
Glenn KennyOn Friday, January 9, New York's Film Forum begins a two-week run of Jean-Luc Godard's legendary 1966 Made in USA, the director's final film starring his by-then ex-wife Anna Karina, an off-the-cuff
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Some notes on "Made in USA": Picasso (and life sliced)
David Phelps“Year Zero,” the term from Rossellini, might be Godard’s favorite mantra, signaled in Made in USA, stated throughout the ’70s, and situated neatly in the title of Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, his portrait