Above: Torn Space's production of Area (2008). Photo: Lukia Costello. Over the last couple of decades, we have seen the emergence of a theatre that seeks to go "beyond drama." This post-dramatic theatre
Dario Argento avows that Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971) is one of his least artistically successful films, but recently viewing it in a restored print on the big screen at MoMA’s Sixth International Festival
Though advance word on Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience was lukewarm after its sneak rough cut preview at Sundance…
Above: William (Red West) and Solo (Souleymane Sy Savane), in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye Solo. It’s one of those strange accidents of moviegoing: the Landmark Century Center, one of two cinemas in the
THE CAMERA NEVER FLIES A squat black ruin lours from a massy clifftop. Ridiculously fake wind effects whoop and whoosh beneath the throbbing music as a lone jalopy rattles along a narrow path between
An interview with the French director of 35 rhums.
To Be Anal About It For years we’ve been wondering not what is cinema, but who: Hitchcock or Renoir? Watch the minor masterpieces enough—La Nuit du carrefour, Madame Bovary, the first and final acts
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
Certain shots linger in the mind for reasons that are unquantifiable, unexplainable. For some reason this image of a casino at dusk, repeated, with slight variations, at a number of points in Alain
Jean Epstein on happy endings.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
Our detail is a single shot done in a long-take from Rossellini’s 1959 film set in Genor during World War II.