On War

Dec 10, 2017 — Awards season brings us not only lists and prizes but also roundtables. The Los Angeles Times’ Mark Olsen’s recently led a conversation among seven directors: Darren Aronofsky (mother!), Sean Baker (The Florida Project), Kathryn Bigelow (Detroit), Guillermo del Toro (The...

Dec 7, 2017 — “After mining the American soul (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, The Master) as brilliantly as any working director has in the last fifty years,” begins Robert Abele at TheWrap, “Paul Thomas Anderson moves to 1950’s England for Phantom Thread,...

Dec 7, 2017 — Night of the Living Dead, the “multi-platform VR experience”? As Janko Roettgers reports for Variety, the virtual reality production company Supersphere and Image Ten, the company co-founded by the late director George A. Romero, are planning to turn the 1968...

Dec 6, 2017 — We’ve seen the features—all of them—and the lineups for the new Indie Episodic section as well as the Shorts and Special Events. Today, the Sundance Film Festival, whose 2018 edition runs from January 18 through 28, presents the lineup for...

Dec 1, 2017 — Press NotesOne of the great masters of melancholy comedy, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, returns to theaters today with The Other Side of Hope, his first film since 2011’s Le Havre. Continuing his empathetic exploration of global migration, Kaurismäki’s latest is...

Nov 17, 2017 — G rasshopper Film has posted Ted Fendt’s essay on Moses and Aaron (1974), Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg’s unfinished opera: “Straub and Huillet’s brilliance—and a fundamental aspect of their method of adaptation—is to allow the contradictions...

Nov 2, 2017 — In the Village Voice, Bilge Ebiri looks back to the day in 1992 when, as a college freshman, he dropped everything, skipped his classes, and took a train from New Haven to New York to see a movie: Orson Welles’s...

Oct 31, 2017 — In the latest entry in Reverse Shot’s symposium on time, Julien Allen proposes that “perhaps the most compelling display of Hitchcock’s bravura in Psycho [1960] occurs during one of its least discussed sequences, in which Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cleans...

Oct 26, 2017 — Senses of Cinema has launched a podcast and topics discussed in the first episode (62’45”) include Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, Jacques Tourneur, and the Mexican narco wars onscreen. And speaking of Blade Runner, Cinematologists Dario Llinares and Neil Fox...

Oct 25, 2017 — Complete Film Criticism: Reviews, Essays, and Manuscripts, a collection edited by Charles Maland, gathers reviews and features James Agee wrote for The Nation from December 1942 to September 1948 and for Time from September 1942 to November 1948. Jonathan Rosenbaum...