2009 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
Barack 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
Saul Bass titles on Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, 1959
Critic, 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
From 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
On 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
“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
I'm mad as hell, and I'll take it a little longer! One of the most basic, but most defining features of David Fincher's short filmography is the relegation of melodrama essentially to a one-note psychic
Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit their ten favorite films of 2008 given at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S. The entries have been tabulated we have our first
Silent Light is Carlos Reygadas' third and most overtly accomplished film; I also find it his least convincing. A healthy degree of skepticism is automatically called for whenever words like "elegiac
YOU This image represents you. You are Maldone, an itinerant canal worker – surprising how many classic French films take to the waterways: L’Atlante, of course, and also Gance’s La Roue. (Britain offers
One of the greatest mysteries of Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in USA (1966) is just what the mystery is. Ex-journalist Anna Karina slinks around in a trenchcoat asking about an old lover who’s disappeared, is