When I first watched Tokyo Twilight back in 2001 (courtesy of a now long out of print French video), the film was pretty routinely written off in the...
No kidding: last night I had a dream in which Uma Thurman announced to the world's media that she had dumped whoever is her current boyfriend, in order to...
As if in answer to Fred Camper's prayers, Here's Dave Kehr on a new box set of John Ford titles with particular emphasis on several rare items bearing witness...
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Well I'm just in from "Sweeney Todd" and it's utterly magnificent. A perfect melding of the sensibilities of Sondheim and Tim Burton in ways I couldn't quite ...
Y'all - I'm thinking of a movie like PINK NARCISSUS. Very psychedelic. Some of it was shot in a kaleidoscope style. Perhaps some Cockettes were in it. It's...
A few weeks ago we had a thread here about Gremillon, and I made some comments about his film GUEULE D'AMOUR, which I had seen about 25 years ago and...
Last night I watched Vincente Aranda's "Carmen," based not on Bizet's opera, but on Prosper Merimee's novel, and it was quite good. I don't think it was as...
Joe Dante has formed this Web Site which contains comments by directors on various trailers. He speaks about MR. ARKADIN while Larry Cohen comments on BLACK...
Although this is a film group dealing with auteurs, I thought it is important to mention ther passing of one of British television's most creative producers...
Due to one of those occasional distribution release oddities, I saw Van Sant's PARANOID PARK here in Seoul today. Highly recommended, enjoyed the film almost...
How are you folks finding this picture? I will firstly (but not lastly) say that it is the first Coen bros picture I have disliked in a very, very long time....
The wire services put him down as a "Spanish film legend," and when I checked his CV at IMDB, I was taken aback by what an incredibly productive man he was;...
I still remembet the L4E film I saw in PSIFF 2002. It reminded be of Nights of Cabirini and I was moved by the different outcomes for the women in the...
In his long review of "I'm Not There," Hoberman makes an off-hand an unexplained remark that "No Direction Home" was "signed by Scorsese," presumably implying...
I finally got a chance to see this film, in its adulterated American cut, at the very last showing at the local suburban multiplex -- it lasted barely a week....
Here's Lane on latest Haynes, praised here by David Ehrenstein: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2007/11/26/071126crci_cinema_lane?printable=true I...
... Funny that I should read this shortly after watching the YouTube clip of Bogart's first encounter with Martha Vickers in "The Big Sleep." Something tells...
I was on the screening of Flicker this year when Tony Conrad came to visit the city. Wonderful film by the way. I remember him thanking the machinist for...
Shame on me. I remember watching "The Indian Runner" (1991) somewhere in 2000 and thinking: wow, Penn will make a first-rate director one day. I did see the...
Am I the only one eagerly awaiting the release of Kenneth Lonergan's new film, "Margaret";, starring Anna Paquin and Matt Damon? To my mind, Lonergan's "You Can...
From this week's New York Observer, reviewing Foster Hirsch's Otto Preminger bio: "It was Preminger's additional misfortune to make the worst movies of his...
Hi, I have a great favor to ask of all the a_film_by'ers that live or at one point lived in NYC. Between Dec 19 and Jan 7 I will be visiting this city for the...
