Farber, as a critic or more imortantly FILM WRITER, spoke TO you not AT you. And he could find the deep poetry in B or pulp cinema, unlike today´s semitexted...
That adds up to basic competence and basic sensitivity. I would hope that all critics aspire to these standards and a lot more. Peter Henne ... not AT ... ...
Blake, Fred has lost his yahoo account as well as the rest of his net data. He has your discs ready for you but he lost your address as well. He asked that you...
I was wondering who are at the forefront of this region of Spain´s cinema.. Catalunya has an interesting place in Spanish history, but most of the cinema from...
Probably the most prominent Catalan directors on the festival scene these days are Marc Recha and Albert Serra, though I would guess that they are not the most...
If Isaki Lacuesta's "The Legend of Time" (2006) is any indication, I'd say he's a major filmmaker to keep an eye on. Highly influenced by Johan van der...
The late Joaquim Jorda has not been mentioned yet. He's a major figure in Catalan filmmaking who had a direct influence on the aforementioned Isaki Lacuesta...
Grandrieux wins a new prize for his new film UN LAC, was this funded by his horrible, awful rock video for America's favourite transgressive goth-rocker...
Dear Inrocks, We are the editors of Cahiers du cinéma. When Le Monde decided to sell les Cahiers, we took the opportunity to develop a project with the...
Sadly, DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS has not been included in the KEN RUSSELL AT THE BBC box set - despite what Amazon and all the publicity materials are...
"What I learned was very simple: A director doesn't make a movie. Everybody else makes the movie. That means the director doesn't have to know how to do...
... Sadly, I can confirm this too. I'm guessing copyright issues reared their ugly heads again. I'm not especially versed in US copyright law, but my...
... reared their ugly heads again. ... understanding is that Richard Strauss ... amendment and had his US ... (or 1/1/2020). Which ... as it is in Europe. ...
... Would the "fair use" laws apply to a soundtrack that consists of nearly an hour of Strauss? Even the spoken bits were sourced directly from his work, with...
Forgive me, I get mixed up on this stuff... Dark Star is a film by John Carpenter, correct? It has nothing really to do with Dan O'Bannon? (Just checking, not...
... Obviously it has something to do with him, since he co-wrote the script and played a leading role. But the quote is about how his view of filmmaking...
"_Lola Montes_ can be shockingly inert -- a stale sachertorte that might have worked as a silent film or an awkward early talkie." No, that's not Manny Farber...
... For whatever it's worth, I find the German restoration far superior, at least for the colors (which seem relatively garish in the French restoration). The...
Can any kind members help? Possibly Carey's only films as director THE WORLD'S GREATEST SINNER (1962) is showing on TCM on Friday October 24th at 2.0 AM EDT. A...
My new web sites are set up. They are exactly like the old web sites - but they have a new address. The old ISP has announced it is shutting down November 1 -...
I can't imagine anyone not loving "Lola Montes". J.G. Ballard's science fiction story "The Waiting Grounds" describes the "Supreme Moment of the Cosmos". Well,...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
