OK, so don’t get your hopes up; this is a pretty poor copy of Withnail & I. I mean, you wouldn’t want to watch it this way, not when the gorgeous Criterion edition exists. But it is the whole film, and as such perfectly fine for leaving on in the background while you down lighter [...]
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Feature Friday: “Withnail & I” (1987)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bruce Robinson, cinema, Feature Friday, Richard E. Grant, Withnail & I on April 27, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Feature Friday: “Syndromes and a Century” (2006)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, apichatpong weerasethakul, cinema, Exquisite Corpse, Marguerite Duras, Mysterious Object at Noon, narrative, Sybdromes and a Century, Thailand, Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives on April 13, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Easily one of the best films of the past seven years, by one of the greatest living filmmakers, Apichatapong Weerasethakul. A funny story: I actually knew him, when I lived in Thailand (2003–5). I was given his cell phone number by a mutual film friend. One day I went to visit him at his studio [...]
Feature Friday: “Celine and Julie Go Boating” (1974)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Céline et Julie vont en bateau, Celine and Julie Go Boating, cinema, Desperately Seeking Susan, Dominique Labourier, Feature Friday, French New Wave, Jacques Rivette, Juliet Berto, Lewis Carroll, Phantom Ladies Over Paris on April 6, 2012 | 7 Comments »
What a surprise to find this up at YouTube! Although less and less surprises me these days. How to describe Celine and Julie Go Boating, other than “one of the greatest films ever made”? Two women, Celine and Julie, a magician and a librarian, bond over a shared interest in magic and the occult. Together [...]
Feature Friday: “Wittgenstein” (1993)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cinema, Derek Jarman, Feature Friday, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein on March 2, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Most of this site’s readers are no doubt busy with AWP, but I’ll still throw up a film to watch. And it’ll be something literary:
Feature Friday: “Sleuth” (1972)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anthony Shaffer, cinema, Feature Friday, Harold Pinter, Jacques Rivette, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kenneth Branagh, Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Sleuth on February 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
John recently stripped this site of its “Features” tab, where I was steadily and secretly stockpiling links to feature films that are up in their entirety at YouTube. So maybe I’ll just start embedding them on the main page? One every Friday? This week’s film will be:
Billy Wilder on “The Lubitsch Touch”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Billy Wilder, cinema, Ernst Lubitsch, narrative, The Lubitsch Touch on July 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Besides being totally charming, the above clip’s worth watching for its lesson in narrative economy. (I just showed my girlfriend Heaven Can Wait (1943), so Lubitsch and his storytelling mastery is much on my mind.)
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies, A D Jameson, AMC River East 21, Applebee's, Avatar, Bass/Rankin, Béla Tarr, Chad and Jeremy, Cindy Morgan, cinema, cineplexes, Duncan Jones, Eastern Promises, Elliot Gould, film distribution, films, Fox & Obel, Friends (TV show), Hollywood, James Bell, Jeremy M. Davies, Jim Jarmusch, Joel Schumacher, John Boorman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Justin, Legend (film), Marshall McLuhan, Monica Bellucci, movies, narrative, Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja, Sherlock Holmes, Shoji Ueda, Shoot ‘Em Up, Sight and Sound, Source Code, Sucker Punch, Television, The Last Unicorn, The Man from London, The NeverEnding Story, Thor, Tilda Swinton, To the Bracken Fields, Tron, Tron Legacy, Warebi no kou, Wendy Carlos, Willow, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder, Zardoz on May 16, 2011 | 16 Comments »
[Last weekend, while en route to Abu Dhabi, my good friend Jeremy swung by my cold-water Chicago flat. After a lengthy Indian-wrestling match, we headed downtown to the AMC River East 21, where we caught a screening of Duncan Jones’s latest film, Source Code. Two hours later, expelled into the brisk April evening, we hunkered [...]
Mark Rappaport’s Blind Dates
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Anthology Film Archives, cinema, Festival Internacional Cine Las Palmas Gran Canaria, From the Journals of Jean Seberg, Jean Seberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Mark Rappaport, Rock Hudson, Rock Hudson's Home Movies, Rouge on March 14, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Today marks the start of Anthology Film Archive’s four-day retrospective of Mark Rappaport, the visionary director behind two of my favorite films: Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992) and From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995). I encourage anyone who’s anywhere near New York City to check it out. Meanwhile, this short video documents a show [...]
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged David Lynch, Kanye West, Weezer, scott mccloud, Mike Stoklasa, cinema, Stan Brakhage, Joseph Cornell, Understanding Comics, Terry Gilliam, Len Lye, Brian Eno, Roger Ebert, David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, George Lucas, Situationist International, détournement, Film Art, Frank Film, Frank Mouris, Vader Sessions, James Earl Jones, AKJAK, Can Dialectics Break Bricks?, Billy Joel, Star Wars, Onion AV Club, Lisa Schwarzbaum, René Viénet, Judson Laipply, Neil Cicierega, YouTube, Flash animation, animutation, Thomas Edison, Lumière Brothers on January 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would include not only movies and short films, but also music videos, commercials, TV programs, experimental film and video, installation art, video games, Flash animations, animated gifs, and even “nonelectrical” forms of moving images, such as [...]
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Clockwork Orange, Aleksandr Sokurov, Alfred Hitchcock, André Bazin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andy Warhol, Anthony Burgess, Béla Tarr, Bullets Over Broadway, cinema, Colossal Youth, Conversazioni in Sicilia, Criterion Collection, Danièle Huillet's, Edie Sedgwick, Elio Vittorini, Funny Games, Goodbye Dragon Inn, Hollis Frampton, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jack Warden, Jean-Marie Straub, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Viterelli, John Cusack, Kuei-Mei Yang, Landscapes in the Mist, long take, Michael Haneke, Michael Snow, Michelangelo Antonioni, Miklós Jancsó, My Life as McDull, Nostalghia, Orson Welles, Pedro Costa, Peter Jackson, Red Psalm, Robert Altman, Rope, Russian Ark, Sean Astin, Shiang-chyi Chen, Sicilia!, Stalker, Stanley Kubrick, The Hole, The Lord of the Rings, The Mirror, The Passenger, The Player, The Shining, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Three Times, Toe Yuen, Touch of Evil, Trilogy The Weeping Meadow, Tsai Ming-Liang, Vinyl, Wavelength, Werckmeister Harmonies, Woody Allen on January 8, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of films that consist primarily of the beautiful things. So here is a start at such a list. (And here is another one, which like this list embeds many YouTube clips, such as the magnificent opening [...]
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