NYFF ’11 Review: Bonjour Tristesse: “Goodbye First Love”
"Goodbye First Love" reveals the constrained life of a shy girl to actually be a courageous, elemental narrative.
View ArticleGodard’s FILM SOCIALISME: The Ultimate in Social Media?
Jean-Luc Godard's FILM SOCIALISME is a work of uncompromising originality and eery timeliness.
View ArticleEssential Images: FILM SOCIALISME
'Film Socialisme' reflects and refracts a life of looks in Jean-Luc Godard's oeuvre.
View ArticleRushes: Tigers | Garbage | Belvaux | Dialogues
As the International Film Festival Rotterdam heads into its second week, the first set of Tiger Awards (for short film) have been announced. The three winners are Japanese experimental filmmaker Makino...
View ArticleRushes: Star Wars | Eastwood | Rendez-Vous
STAR WARS got a couple of looks during the Super Bowl, with Darth Vader once again making a walk-on for a Volkswagen commercial and a proper trailer for the the 3D re-release of THE PHANTOM MENACE...
View ArticleNAPOLEON Re-conquers the World
While Abel Gance's 1926 NAPOLEON makes a glorious return to the big screen, his earlier epics J'ACCUSE and LA ROUE display similarly wild artistic/thematic aspirations on a massive physical scale.
View ArticleScenes: FILM SOCIALISME
Godard visits Sergei Eisenstein’s Odessa Steps as they are today, and FILM SOCIALISME finds actual history and film history are one and the same.
View ArticleScenes: A TOUT DE SUITE
Face time with Isild Le Besco brings a smoldering sense of unease in a film by Benoît Jacquot. By Ian Miller
View ArticleScenes: CHARLOTTE RAMPLING: THE LOOK
The brilliant, beautiful actress shares stardust memories and confronts her enigmatic self-image under the gaze of documentarian Angelina Maccarone, fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh and a...
View ArticleBold and BELOVED
Sweetness and light, darkness and death, Christophe Honoré BELOVED takes the musical in a bold direction.
View ArticleChristophe Honoré: New Wave Love Songs
The auteur behind earnestly effervescent French gems returns with uncertain romance, heartbreaking chansons and the world’s greatest mother-daughter acting team.
View ArticleMarjane Satrapi’s Muse
An international director in self-imposed exile from the culture and home that inspires her talks about melancholy, soap operatics and the more ludicrous dimensions of the American ‘dream.’
View ArticleOlivier Assayas: Without the Past, There Is No Future
May, 1968, postscript: 'Something in the Air' director Olivier Assayas talks revolutionary fervor and its aftermath.
View ArticleFive Lessons from Ten Great Filmmakers: Luis Buñuel
A great artist contains multitudes: ‘I can like something in the morning and hate it in the afternoon.’
View ArticleFive Lessons (plus One) from Ten Great Filmmakers: Marie Straub and Danièle...
Pedro Costa on Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet: ‘Repetition is more comic, and more moving, than surprise.'
View ArticleFive Lessons from Ten Great Filmmakers: Hou Hsiao-hsien
It’s all about the POV for Hou. ‘Back then I was influenced by people who had studied cinema abroad…After listening to them, I didn't know how to film anymore.’
View ArticleUrsula Meier’s New SISTER not Far from HOME
One of world cinema’s most upwardly bound filmmakers, Ursula Meier speaks on the art of portraying downward mobility, families in crisis.
View ArticleEngines Running: Leos Carax’s HOLY MOTORS
Leos Carax’s spectacular HOLY MOTORS is temper-tantrum over the death of physical media and private lives that may be the director’s best film yet.
View ArticleWhat Hollywood Can Learn from French Actresses
A reader’s guide to Mick LaSalle’s French-actress treatise ‘The Beauty of the Real.’
View ArticleDiminuendo and Crescendo in Film Criticism
Jonathan Rosenbaum, at the cusp of seventy, talks about a life of jazz and cinema.
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