Two more ooccurred to me, after reading the various notes in response: Bob Fosse (though "dancer as director" would probably be the more appropriate...
So many directors had early careers as actors, that it would take a whole doctoral dissertation to list them. Griffith disciples Raoul Walsh and Erich von...
Having just read the pieces on "Muriel" (Resnais) by David Ehrenstein and "What Price Glory?" (Walsh) by Robert Keser in Senses of Cinema (current), I just...
http://blogs.indiewire.com/reverseshot/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!...
I was contacted by a film association in my area and asked to come up with a list of notable African-American films, preferably made by African-Americans, and...
I wanted to recommend Manoel de Oliveira's amazing "Belle Toujours"; if you're in Chicago, it's at the Gene Siskel Film Center for a few more days. Though I've...
Try: Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash) True Identity (Charles Lane) Sucre amer / Bitter Sugar (Christian Lara) The Color of Friendship (Kevin Hooks) Unbowed...
A quick thanks to the members who helped me track down copies of WHAT PRICE GLORY? I finally ended up with one b/w print with the original commissioned score...
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0775447/ A force in world cienma for half a century as a producer and sometime actor as well as filmmkaer in his own right, Barbet...
Now that middlebrow-raising (as opposed to -beating) will take place over DD (with the remake of *3:10 to Yuma* opening), does he deserve more of the credit...
Reads him like the telephone directory! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/04/opinion/04jrosenbaum.html In light of this gleeful putdown he should consider getting...
And now, direct from Dennis Cooper's blog (where only the most adventurous fear to tred) "Dream Master Bernard Welt" offers his take on a Bergman classic ...
Prepare for a middlebrow-beating... http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/08/08/clarkson/ "Aside from Francis Ford Coppola's "Godfather" series, with its...
Satyajit Ray has long been a favorite filmmaker, for such outstanding serious dramas as Arapajito, The Music Room, Mahanagar, Charulata and The Chessplayers....
... I've been watching and rewatching it on DVD recently, and it looks pretty solidly composed for 1.66 to me (and significantly different compositions than...
While looking for something else on Amazon, I noticed that Fox have finally released a widescreen DVD of Leo McCarey's RALLY ROUND THE FLAG, BOYS!. This would...
If he is a lurking member of AFB - or if anyone here knows how to get in touch with him - I am looking for an email contact for JD Copp of Boston, who does the...
Anyone here an expert in the history of the use of storyboards in film production? In particular: at what point in film history (and in what countries) did...
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There couldn't exist more point-making mise-en-scène than that of really recent films like COEURS by Alain Resnais and STIL LIFE (or any of his other ...
An absolutely dynamite essay that with nails precisely why Antonioni is great in ways that both film scholars and general readers can appreciate. It also shows...
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...
David quoted and replied: "[Adrian;] This ... [David:] Really? Do you have any links to lengthy discussions of it? As far as I know all that's ever bee written...
