Above: Samantha Morton and Philip Seymour Hoffman ponder a simulacrum of New York in Charlie Kaufman's new movie. Changling (Eastwood, USA) If Clint Eastwood keeps making solemn period pictures like
From Diary of the Dead (2007); featuring Michelle Morgan, Shawn Roberts and Joshua Close; directed by George A. Romero; cinematography by Adam Swica:
King Hu's landmark wuxia, 1966's Come Drink with Me, is finally available on Region 1 DVD, and here's hoping his other masterpieces, like Dragon Gate Inn, will soon follow.What I particularly like about
Dan Sallitt reviews Johan Kling’s “dazzling 2007 debut feature” Darling.
From La Belle noiseuse (1991); featuring Michel Piccoli and Jane Birkin; directed by Jacques Rivette; cinematography by William Lubtchansky:
Click the below links for all coverage of the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and stay tuned for some shorter round-up pieces later this week:Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt, USA) Frontier of Dawn (Garrel, France
Above: Laura Smet (left) and Louis Garrel (right) as the the first pair of lovers in Philippe Garrel's Frontier of Dawn. Philippe Garrel's cinema—which tends towards the suicidal—questions whether everything
Above: Michelle Williams as Wendy. Remember the utter destitution of Old Joy's final scene, Will Oldham ejected from a deep, but expired and uncomfortable friendship into the unforgiving city streets
Above: A studio production still unintentionally captures the Borzage essence, two lovers, Charles Boyer and Jean Arthur, transcendentally alone in their bliss. "Is it something like love?" "It is
Above: Vero (María Onetto) in one of the film's many emblematic, ghostly uses of foreground and background in its compositions. Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel (The Holy Girl, La Ciénaga) curls
Jonathan Rosenbaum rightly described Jim Jarmusch's 1995 film Dead Man as an "acid western," but I wonder if he had known that Wong Kar-wai beat Jarmusch to the punch in 1994 with his acid wuxia, Ashes
Some stories are told so many times there is no longer any need for words. Albert Serra understands this. His digitalized, elliptical, nature-bound adaptation of Quixote, Honor de cavalleria, and now