2008 September 17 | Coosa Creek Cinema

News You Might Even Be Able to Use

By Rick, on September 17th, 2008 |

Peet Gelderblom’s sly comic strip “Directorama” is back on the Web, in a shiny, brand-new blog named, appropriately enough, Directorama. Peet’s a filmmaker from “the heart of Holland,” as he puts it, who directs commercials and TV programs for an Amsterdam company. There’s a few bugs yet over at his new home, but [...]

Notable DVDs

By Rick, on September 17th, 2008 |

The folks at Criterion have been busy little bees lately. They’ve released three (!) films by Max Ophüls, a remaster of Pier Paolo Passolini’s notorious final film, plus six films from Janus’ Essential Arthouse collection in economical, bare-bones editions.

Ophüls’ film career spanned 25 years and three countries, beginning in his native Germany in 1931, followed [...]