I’ve thought that Asian films are where it’s at these days, but I base that opinion on an embarrassingly small set of data: Wong Kar-Wai, Hsiao Hsien Hou, Zhang Yimou, Tsai Ming Liang, Ang Lee (I know, I know, he’s more of an American than anything else, but gimme a break). Of course, [...]
So. Here’s another list. This time, it’s a list of the top 100 foreign-language films of all time, as chosen and voted upon by bloggers and critics and film professors and plain old movie lovers like you and me. It’s called the The Satyajit Ray Memorial Anything-But-Definitive List of Non-English Language Films, [...]
It’s a month dedicated to the Coen brothers at MovieZeal; I’ll be contributing a piece later in the month; in the meantime, check out this great review of Raising Arizona by Evan Derrick, who writes
Raising Arizona continues the Coens’ fascination with bending genre, the screwball comedy (ala Peter Bogdanovitch) serving as their guinea pig this [...]
They’re talking about the “auteur theory” again over at girish’s place. Although this is over a week old, it’s still worth checking out; there are fresh comments today!
The auteur theory had it’s origins in the influential French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. Although critics such as editor André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc contributed to the notion, [...]
Nayana, over at the Center Seat, has been playing with lists lately, and recently Pat has joined her, so I thought, why not . . .
First up, here’s the AFI top hundred American Films that Nayana referenced here. Note that the AFI lists only American movies and the ones I’ve seen are in bold:
Citizen Kane [...]
Charlton Heston, actor and activist, died yesterday in California. Perhaps best-known for his role as Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments (1956), Heston had a long and varied career as an actor, primarily in action roles. Imdb lists over 125 roles, beginning as the title character in 1941’s Pyr Gynt. [...]
What is there left to say about Federico Fellini? Possibly not much, but folks keep on trying. Several months ago I vowed … simply vowed … to visit all of his first movies, up through 8½, and then write some (possibly redundant) but hopefully interesting stuff about them. I thought I’d churn [...]
Forty years ago last Wednesday (April 2. 1968), 2001: A Space Odyssey had it’s world premiere. At Movie City Indie, Ray Pride has a set of links to, among other things, some of the critical reaction at the time, including this quote from Roger Ebert:
It was e. e. cummings, the poet, who said he’d [...]
Jules Dassin, director of Night and the City, The Naked City, Thieves Highway, Rififi, Never on Sunday, among others, died Monday in Athens of complications from the flu. Born in 1911 in Middletown, Connecticut, his first film was the short The Tell-tale Heart. In 1952, he was denounced to the excrable House Unamerican Activities [...]
Jim Emerson has a great post over at Scanners wherein he reconstructs an infamous exchange between the late Richard Widmark and Andrei Tarkovsky. It seems that at the 1983 Telluride film festival, just as the cold war was heating up — the Soviets had just shot down KAL flight 007 — Tarkovsky was in [...]
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