I hadn't known that Claire Simon had only made documentaries before making On Fire (2006), but it was quite clear even while watching the film. Simon and her photographer Pascale Granel shoot their scenes
Courtesy of the Criterion Collection. “The most striking feature of the sound track of [1949’s] Jour de Fete is the constant presence of countryside ambient noises.[…] The most nearly comparable ambience
By way of getting to the film, it seems safe to say that the influence of American B-movie maverick Jacques Tourneur may now be dormant in the U.S. but it is alive and kicking in Europe. First Pedro Costa
Whatever else it has, M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening does have its small moments of genius, like all cinema, like any art form that allows, purposefully or inadvertently, reality to creep in. Here
Above: Simply, Takamine Hideko. Although programmed in Film Forum's retrospective on the work of Japanese actor Nakadai Tatsuya, Nakadai barely appears in Untamed (1957), but you won't hear any complaints
As relayed by David Hudson at GreenCine Daily, a significantly longer cut of Fritz Lang's oft-restored, oft-reconstructed 1927 sci-fi allegorical masterpiece Metropolis has been found. Images of the new
Above: Horikita Maki plays the terminally ill teenager in Love on Sunday 2: Last Words. I can’t think of too many current directors of Hiroki Ryuichi’s stature and skill who work almost exclusively
landscape images from There Will be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) cinematography by Robert Elswitsome things to consider:-Donald Judd and the Chinati Foundation -The Marfa Lights -Giant (Stevens
On the occasion of one of the best culture blogs on the Internet posting in mp3 format the nineteenth tape of interviews of Alfred Hitchcock by French New Waver and Cahiers du cinéma critic François Truffaut
A review of Cheang Pou-soi’s film Shamo.
Although Wall-E ends with a very apt and moving nod to City Lights, it is in fact Pixar’s answer to Modern Times—both a bravura summation of everything the studio is great at and a “You ain’t seen nothing
For a minute and a half, Razzle Dazzle is about the most beautiful movie of the year: little flickers of light, looking like flakes of crumpled paper, flash about, moving outward, appearing like traces