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It feels weird to plead on behalf of William Wyler, who is certainly celebrated and respected and even known by a few people outside hardcore cinephilia...


Above: "Let me explain the world to you," — the directorial attidue of Woody Allen's terrific Whatever Works. Suddenly I think I may have misjudged Woody Allen...


I saw Dario Argento's latest, Giallo, in Edinburgh last week, and was somewhat underwhelmed.But anyone who reckons that Dario has terminally "lost it" really needs to check out his previous effort, 2007's Mother of Tears (La terza madre, aka The Third Mother)...


Above: Michael Mann (second from the right) and crew members working on Public Enemies. Photo by Rob Olewinski. I spent a few days in the summer of 2008 on the set of Michael Mann's Public Enemies, which was shooting at the time in Chicago...


Andrea Arnold's follow-up to her acclaimed Red Road (2006),follows also in the footsteps of Alan Clarke, director of films and BBC plays, whose influence has spread out in strange ways since his untimely death in 1990...


Above: The Biograph Theater in 1934 and as it appeared when re-decorated in 2008 for the production of Public Enemies. I spent a few days in the summer of 2008 on the set of Michael Mann's Public Enemies, which was shooting at the time in Chicago...


"Pontypool. Pontypool. Ponty-pool." It's such a pleasure to discover a film like director Bruce MacDonald and writer Tony Burgess's Pontypool at a film festival (Edinburgh, in my case) without knowing anything about it...


UP, UP AND AWAY At the beginning of 1969'sThe Red Tent, a Soviet-Italian co-production (perhapsthe Soviet-Italian co-production?),a film without a reputation, a group of ghosts gather for a mock-trial...


Linked by their concerns with sexuality (or, more directly, perversion),if not by the near simultaneous release of several of their films on DVD in the US, Nagisa Oshima and Shohei Imamura belong to that needling New Wave that began slightly after the more famous French version...


One of the creative forces behind Milkyway Image, the production company he co-founded in 1996 with director Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai is best known for his collaborative efforts as screenwriter, producer, and co-director on over twenty films, including Fulltime Killer, Mad Detective, and this...


Above: the notorious unused pie fight finale to Dr. Strangelove. As pretty much every film buff knows by now, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 nuke satire Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ends on a note both decidedly bizarre and oddly apt...


Cheap to fund, digitally shot portraits of everyday life compose the heart and soul of contemporary American independent film. But when a director makes the decision to reject casual naturalism, shoot on film and concentrate on visual beauty, the contrast with typical indie fare is revelatory...


Darren Hughes of Long Pauses does all Toronto Int'l Film Festival attendees a service each year by running 1st Thursday: A Guide to TIFF. If you are intending on attending the festival this year, or are curious about the programming, Darren's annual off-shoot to his own site is a great resource.


Abbas Kiarostami's Shirin continues his journey into the avant-garde world of Five Dedicated to Ozu, his 2003 excursion into long take minimalist cinematography. Ostensibly the film presents shots of an audience watching a film...


As triumph-of-the-human-spirit tales go, Kon Ichikawa's 1963 Taiheiyo hitori-botchi (distributed in some countries as My Enemy The Sea; the producers of this Eureka!/Masters of Cinema DVD editon go with the more accurate translation Alone Across The Pacific), is darker, more textured, more layered...


Opening today and running through July 5th is the New York Asian Film Festival, and the benefit this cinephile summer tentpole gives to the city’s film scene can be seen in two of its hardest hitting selections: Wai Ka-fai’s Written By and Yang Ik-joon’s Breathless...


If you look at the website gigposters.com you’ll see an incredible wealth of talent pored into the world ofindie rock poster design and I often wonder why we don’t see more of that inmovie posters...


Filmmakers Of The Week: Mohsen Mahkmalbaf and Marjane Satrapi. Neither has a current film to promote. The Harmlessly Frivolous Reason To Join Twitter Of The Week: Nicer Film Titles, illuminated here...


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What is the 21st Century? is the column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Michael Bay on the set ofTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen...


What is it with circles? Three of the best new movie posters of 2009—The Girlfriend Experience, The Limits of Control and now Moon—are awash with them. For Moon it makes perfect graphic sense...


Never Count An Auteur Out: Don't let the mere 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes bamboozle you—Francis Ford Coppola is back...


Charles Vidor, no relation to the more celebrated King, madeGilda, ensured himself a place in the film history books with a slick and thematically fascinating noir which dazzles from the moment Glenn Ford throws a pair of outsized dice in the opening shot...


Out of town; my work takes me out of town. I empty villages. I burn their houses down. I set up factories....


What an interesting puzzle the directorial career of Michael Anderson makes. In 1955 he directs The Dam Busters, one of the most exacting and exciting films about World War II ever made up to that point in time...


The Details is a column that catches the small within the big, focusing on the individual elements that make cinema so expressive...


The DVD Release Of The Week: Is, most of the time, whatever The New York Times' Dave Kehr says it is, and this week it's Zeitgeist's double feature of Phillipe Garrel's I Can No Longer Hear The Guitar and Emergency Kisses...


David Carradine, who died yesterday at the age of 72, is undoubtedly best known for the television show that defined him, Kung Fu, as well as for a string of cheesy action movies that played off his martial arts persona...


THE THREEFACES OF EVE I tre volti (Three Faces of a Woman, 1965) is, among other things, the Antonioni film you're least likely to have seen, the Bolognini film you're least likely to have seen (a larger field) and possibly the only Franco Indovina film you ought to see...


Recently released by Kino International, Seijun Suzuki’s Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (1963) and Motomu Ida’s 3 Seconds Before Explosion (1967) share locales (Japan’s wildly prolific Nikkatsu Studio) and origins (novels by Haruhiko Oyabu), yet exist in different worlds...


The Gunfight at Dodge City begins rather unusually for a Cinemascope Western with color by Deluxe: in the dark...


Under the auspices of David Lynch, Interview Project is traveling around the US giving brief, Internet-friendly snapshots of people in places. Those people being Americans, those places being in America...


The Auteurs is proud to present for a limited time the first two installments of American: Exhibits from the C.F. Kane Museum, a six-part video investigation into the work of Orson Welles by B. Kite...


Though 2009 may go down as an unusually average Cannes Film Festival, its size and prestige guaranteed a wealth of films and big name filmmakers that we were all very excited to see. Below you’ll find an index of all our coverage this year. Enjoy...


Though he is arguably the best known graphic designer in America, and despite the fact that he is legendary for his poster design (think Dylan, think Mahalia Jackson, think Angels in America), Milton Glaser has designed remarkably few movie posters...


At what point does gleeful cynicism become so gleeful that it ceases to function as cynicism at all, and mutates into a blatant formalist trope of little emotional or intellectual resonance, but plenty of aesthetic...what's the word? Bliss? Is frisson somehow appropriate here...


In his first U.S. interview about his new war film, Inglourious Basterds, provocateur Quentin Tarantino opens up about directing Brad Pitt and that "God" comment at Cannes...


In Land of Madness: Luc Moullet giving us a sad, funny tour of “his movie collection,” awkwardly climbing a ladder to sit, hunched over, by himself in an empty little attic with a couple film cans scattered about...


BEWARE THE BEAT OF THE CLOTH-WRAPPED FEET In Maurice Pialat's last film,Le Garcu, a strange film can be seen playing on TV in the background.Die Herrin von Atlantis, directed by G.W...


The only genuine reaction this image of a crucifix gracefully laid on a bed can elicit—at least at the point it arrives in Maurice Pialat's plain-as-day death story—may be a choke of strangled, appalled laughter...


What is the 21st Century? is the weekly column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question...


Tsai Ming-liang’s movies, critics noted more and more in his last few films, are founded from parallel universes, banal reality and another universe that opens up inside it...


All is Forgiven is the name of Mia Hansen-Løve’s first film, Doris Day’s "Que Sera Sera" ends her second as cars enter and exit Paris, and the presumption that affairs move on and whatever will be will be is a good deal of what makes the world of her films as recognizably ours (mine) as hers...


Before Tony Scott sullies the memory of Joseph Sargent's 1974 Gotham crime classicThe Taking of Pelham One Two Three with his Denzel-Travolta remake, let us celebrate the original with this knockout British quad (see it large here)...


Above: Mia Hansen-Løve, director of The Father of My Children. Photo by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com...
















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