Isidore Isou's obit in "Libération" today is only a few lines long and does not mention his film work (maybe there'll be a longer one in the future, who...
I just saw this, and I think it *is* more radical than Brokeback. Ving Rhames performance alone has more spark than anything in Lee's dour weepie. But hey, I'm...
... The resentment NEWSNIGHT's team felt about having to waste valuable screen time on yet another dead Johnny-Foreign-Trousers director (instead of something...
... Toby Young is a truly loathesome Bush/Blair-loving fascist. A cinema that asks one to think think is the enemy of those who insist we must follow the...
The news of Bergman's passing came as jolt, but the follow-up of Antonioni was pure stab-in-the-heart. These were some of the directors, particularly...
You know, the longer I think about it a little of all of us died right along with them. I was very mixed about bergman and loved Antonioni. But over and above ...
... Who is Toby Young? I've never heard of him. The voice-over by "Average Viewer" on which introduced NEWSNIGHT appeared on the level of "I go to the oub,...
... Co-founder of MODERN REVIEW, his main ambition in life would appear to be becoming a Postmodern male equivalent of Julie Burchill - which is really all you...
... Thanks David. Once I thought nobody could be worse than Barry Norman of FILM NIGHT (BBC). Then Jonathan Ross came along. Sometimes (on certain occasions)...
... Dreyer. ... distinction, ... very foreign ... office ... art ... made ... I'm sure David Walsh will be re-evaluating both Antonioni and Bergman in a future...
Does anyone know where I could find English-subtitled copies of Bergman's THIS CAN'T HAPPEN HERE and IN THE PRESENCE OF A CLOWN, or Antonioni's LA SIGNORA...
I picked up a VHS tape containing a nice letterboxed transfer of Jack Webb's PETE KELLY'S BLUES (1955) a few days ago. Watching it the other night, I was...
... He was also - for a thankfully extremely short-lived period around 1993 or thereabouts - film critic of The Guardian, which he used as a platform to peddle...
Interesting that you shoudl bring this up, Brad. To my knowledge the late great Raymond Durgnat is the only critic to acknowledge the brilliance of "Pete...
I saw Pete Kelly's Blues in theaters when it came out, and much later taped it in letterbox (I would never watch it in a pan & scan version!)and have played it...
We (Tavernier and I)did in "30 ans de cinema americain" and again 20 years later in "50 ans..." -- although I wish our comment/praise of the film were more...
With the DVD edition of David Lynch's "Inland Empire" looming, it seems appropriate to point out one of its film connections that remained (at least to my...
... But who is ... To some extent Scorsese, but more in certain films than others. ... He's another one -- though I find him wildly uneven. I love "Carrie" but...
... Hmm, perhaps. Scorsese tends to work in several modes, often simultaneously: WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR treats scenes as if they exist independently of...
... The one Scorsese film which really ... I watched him and Thelma edit one scene for two days. ots of fun. But in terms of his work "Raging Bull" is more...
... Yes, but that stuff rubs shoulders with scenes in which the camera seems to be observing scenes that are taking place independently of its presence. This...
... I'm not sure what you mean by that. Jake's presence? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation?...
A friend of mine would like to know if the shorter, narrated version of RED RIVER has ever been available on VHS or DVD. It seems as if the "book version" is...
... version of ... anyone ... For many years, the shorter narrated version was the only one available on VHS in the UK. If you wanted to see the longer 'book' ...
Now I'm really confused. How can the camera be present and absent at the same time? Of course the characters in the film, like so many others, are inahibiting...
Caution: unsupported assertion of personal taste ahead. I'm at work so I wish I had time to respond to this, but I wanted to chime in that DRAGNET makes it...
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