The Forgotten: The Balduin Brothers
David CairnsTHE SPY WITH MY FACE "He had the good fortune to be a bad author with an imagination reveling in gross sensation and sex - a natural ally for the Nazis, for whom he was to write, in 1933, the official
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Homes for Strangers: The Cinema of Nicholas Ray
Evan DavisPoetry of the Mystic High school peer of Joseph Losey. Student of Frank Lloyd Wright. Protégé of Elia Kazan. One-time pal of Manny Farber. Radio propagandist for the OSS. Director of some of the strangest
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Frontiers of Extinction: A Conversation About Michael Mann’s “Public Enemies”
Daniel KasmanThree critics discuss Michael Mann’s most recent digital criminal cinema extravaganza.
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Tuesday Morning Foreign DVD Report: "Au bonheur des dames" (Duvivier, 1930)
Glenn KennyGoing by the sort of things that exemplary archivists Lobster Films and its American kind-of-partner Flicker Alley, as well as some other concerns, have been releasing on DVD in recent years, one gets
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The Tubular Muse: Josef von Sternberg's "Shanghai Express"
Daniel KasmanDirected by Josef von Sternberg. Here's a little secret about Josef von Sternberg: the man's talent and reputation for baroque pictorialism in the cinema, for emphasizing only the nearly-abstract
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Topics/Questions/Exercises of the week—17 July 2009
Glenn KennyPool Party: Some not very bright person over at Gawker concocts a rather remarkably stupid article about so-called "pool movies," that is, movies that once-great directors sold themselves out to make
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The Forgotten: The Defenestrated Man
David CairnsSTEP OUTSIDE "A man comes in through the door, you got nothing. He comes in through the window, you got a situation." So spoke Billy Wilder, a man who knew a few things about dramatic construction
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Underneath the Bottle: "In A Lonely Place" and Alcoholism
Glenn KennyDixon Steele. What a wonderful name—what a wonderfully preposterous name—to bestow upon a fictional writer. To bestow, particularly, on this writer, the protagonist of Nicholas Ray's 1950 In A Lonely
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Link of the day
Daniel KasmanThe way the Internet is these days—and film criticism too—finding a website that does something interesting with motion pictures is a rare thing indeed. So praise is due when ingenuity and good taste
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Daisies" (Vera Chytilova, 1966)
Glenn KennyWhat, you've never seen Vera Chytilova's 1966 Daisies, a touchstone of the Czech New Wave that could perhaps best be described as a feminist, psychedelic, surreal Eastern European answer film to Howard
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What is the 21st Century?: The Human Voice
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Alden Ehrenreich (left, facing away) and Vincent Gallo (right) talk in
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A Rock Is a Hard Place: An Interview with Luc Moullet
Daniel KasmanWe talked to the French New Wave critic and filmmaker in Cannes about his documentary Land of Madness, King Vidor, murder and more.