The Boundaries of Psychiatry and Cinema: Romuald Karmakar’s "The Deathmaker"
Carson LundThoughts on The Deathmaker (1995), the most widely seen film by the heavily neglected German director Romuald Karmakar.
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The Poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival
NotebookThe new poster for the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled.
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Movie Poster of the Week: Jacques Tourneur’s “Wichita” and Andrew Sarris’s Expressive Esoterica
Adrian CurryThe posters for the films in Anthology Film Archives’ canny tribute to the dean of American film critics.
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The Forgotten: Witness
David CairnsIn Clarence Brown’s The Goose Woman, a faded diva pretends to be a witness to a murder for the sake of publicity, but incriminates her son.
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The Noteworthy: The Rappaport vs. Carney Saga, Can't Stop McT, Menello Remembered
Adam CookMondo’s new Taxi Driver poster, Richard Brody & James Gray remember Ric Menello, Rosenbaum is Moving Places again & more.
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Three Takes #2: James William Guercio’s "Electra Glide In Blue"
Fernando F. CroceIn this week’s column dedicated to short-form criticism, three writers tackle a counter-culture classic.
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Towards A Pure Fiction: Cecil B. DeMille
Luc MoulletCritic and filmmaker Luc Moullet on Cecil B. DeMille and The Road to Yesterday, one of the box office king’s most audacious undertakings.
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"Spring Breakers" or The American Way of Death
Celluloid Liberation FrontKorine’s last film is an a-temporal, sensorial trance staring in awe at the horror vacui of a lost, immor(t)al dream.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Salvatore Giuliano” and the Posters of Werner Gottsmann
Adrian CurryA selection of striking posters by a little-known East German designer.
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The Forgotten: Better Loving Through Science
David CairnsL’inhumaine is Marcel L’Herbier’s ultimate triumph of design over narrative, drama, logic, and life and death.
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The Noteworthy: Scorsese on "The Searchers", Film Criticism: The Next Generation, Orson Welles’ Sketch Book
Adam CookA couple of crowd-funding projects to check out, new trailers from Baumbach, Coppola, Malick and Whedon, Orson Welles’ Sketch Book & more.
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Some Violence Is Required: A Conversation With Pedro Costa
David JenkinsThe Portuguese maestro talks digital, film and DCP, early influences and teachers, David Fincher and filmmaking now.