Awashima worked steadily until the end of her life in TV and movies; she acted with longtime colleagues Nakadai Tatsuya and Sugai Kin in her last picture her...
Just kidding. (I think) NY's Film Forum goes digital: http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-02-29/film/this-is-dcp-the-big-screen-test-film-forum/ (print version -...
... I just saw THE ANDERSON PLATOON for the first time - rather good. Some of you may know Schoendoerffer's biggest claim to auteurist fame, which is that...
The version that MoMA showed about a year ago didn't have English narration - I presume it was the original. - Dan ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
A few years back I got to see RED DESERT in a new print at BAM, and was blown away. It had been almost two decades since I had first seen L'AVENTURA on a big...
Film is dead, long live film. Did anyone go see the side by side STRANGELOVE? I did my own version of a comparison when Greg Motolla's ADVENTURELAND screened...
Cliff Robertson directed himself in the rodeo picture J.W. Coop, which he wrote with Gary Cartwright and Bud Shrake. It's finally out on DVD, and worth a look...
The final reel on the Great Man unspooled last Tuesday, without Him, this forum and many of our careers would most likely not exist. So thanks, Andy....
Yeah, I didn't really feel like joining in on all the Twitter mourning, but this would have been the logical place for a wake. Remember when he almost died of...
... "...Nice to have an ideological father figure who was a fairly balanced guy without much of a chip on his shoulder." - Dan Sarris's principal limitation...
... It wasn't new to him: some of the French critics felt the same. At the time, it seemed an important part of auteurism to downgrade the avant-garde (with...
... "At the time, it seemed an important part of auteurism to downgrade the avant-garde (with the special, almost moral appeal that it had to the film...
... Sonbert is the non-narrative filmmaker I love best, and I think it's partly because his sensibility was almost a narrative one (and I'd say an auteurist...
... Well, you can pick up a copy of "Politics and Cinema" and read Sarris' justification for his resistance to the avant-garde. As for myself, well, having to...
... There's always been a funny power dynamic between the avant-garde and the narrative people – probably we should try not to be distracted by such things....
... "There's always been a funny power dynamic between the avant-garde and the narrative people...I still can�t get rid of the feeling that narrative changes...
I don't know if "Koyaanisqatsi" qualifies as "avant-garde", but it is a feature length "non-narrative" movie that didn't bore me. And that is the thing -- if a...
... The line is so porous - even the most one-sided viewer has to cross it sometimes. A lot of the difference between narrative and non-narrative traditions ...
