Above: Encounters at the End of the World. “I have always thought of my films as really being one big work that I have been concentrating on for forty years,” Werner Herzog stated in Paul Cronin’s interview
This post is for Bill R., proprieter of The Kind of Face You Hate. "La vecchiaia e carogna" is a very old and mercilessly pitched Italian adage meaning "old age is carrion." The opening minutes of Michael
Harun Farocki’s Zum Vergleich (By Comparison) is a cross-country, cross-industry look at the production of bricks. It’s a pithy collection of process, material, labor, and industry
Above: Sabine Timoteo in Kill Daddy Goodnight, coaxing the film's hero out to New York City. So it’s 1962, during the shoot of The Birds, and Hitchcock meets a man who claims to be him, but older
Nitesh Rohit, contributor to our Epilogue '08 online roundtable, has announced the launch of the first Indian film critics online journal, Indian Auteur: "A group of individuals, inspired by their love
Above: Claudia Llosa's Golden Bear winner, The Milk of Sorrow. By Comparison (dir. Harun Farocki) – A nearly wordless study of how bricks are manufactured in several countries suggests something
Was it so long ago when it seemed directors attacked cinema with their cameras? Why is it I have to find artistic hunger and cinematic verve in a film festival's retrospective and not its main
Anthology Film Archives' recent "Imitations of Life: Stahl vs. Sirk" series demonstrates that, though John M. Stahl and Douglas Sirk both labored in the fields of the Universal melodrama, they don’t have
Above: Mariano de Rosa's Aguas Verdes. With just Clinch (Schwitzkasten; John Cook, Austria 1977) to come (1930 tonight at Arsenal—the cinema, not the footy stadium), the festival score-card
There are no examination rooms in Dr. Ma's clinic in Huangyangchuan, a town in rural China: just one space that serves as waiting area, examination room, and pharmacy. Thus, magically, private
Above: Dominique Thomas (left) and Lola Creton (right), as Bluebeard and his young bride. Would you expect Catherine Breillat to have something in common with Manoel de Oliveira? Surprisingly
It's White Nights with the two stories compressed to one: (1) boy who falls in love with girl who cries to him over the other man she loves, and (2) that girl caught between the sexy jerk, and the supportive