Magazines are returning from their summer breaks. The new Artforum features Melissa Anderson on Todd Haynes's Carol and Alice Echols on Giorgio Moroder, The new frieze features Tom Newth on the newish restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), and there's a whopping new issue of desistfilm celebrating the 50th years of Super 8. Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Martha, Alain Resnais and Claude Chabrol; Adrian Martin on Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie; Girish Shambu on Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night; Stuart Klawans on Stanley Nelson’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 9/1/2015
- Keyframe
Magazines are returning from their summer breaks. The new Artforum features Melissa Anderson on Todd Haynes's Carol and Alice Echols on Giorgio Moroder, The new frieze features Tom Newth on the newish restoration of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann (1951), and there's a whopping new issue of desistfilm celebrating the 50th years of Super 8. Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Martha, Alain Resnais and Claude Chabrol; Adrian Martin on Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie; Girish Shambu on Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne's Two Days, One Night; Stuart Klawans on Stanley Nelson’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution and F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 9/1/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Bitter Ash
A rather precious thing happened in Montreal in the mid 1970s. Canadian cinema had been dominated by the National Film Board since its formation in 1940, and the generally-perceived character of Canadian film was all educational documentary, and not a lot of fun. Directors such as Claude Jutra, Don Owen, and Gilles Groulx struck off on their own to make the first Canadian new wave fiction films (A tout prendre [1963], Nobody Waved Goodbye, and Le chat dans le sac [both 1964] respectively), on the back of independents like Sydney J. Furie’s groundbreaking A Dangerous Age (1959) and Larry Kent’s student feature The Bitter Ash (1963), but for all their youthful, semi-bohemian trappings, these were still quite po-faced affairs. Then came the “genial loser” films of the 70s, led by Owen’s Goin’ Down The Road (1970), and others such as The Rowdyman (Peter Carter, 1972) and Paperback Hero (Peter Pearson, 1973), for the...
A rather precious thing happened in Montreal in the mid 1970s. Canadian cinema had been dominated by the National Film Board since its formation in 1940, and the generally-perceived character of Canadian film was all educational documentary, and not a lot of fun. Directors such as Claude Jutra, Don Owen, and Gilles Groulx struck off on their own to make the first Canadian new wave fiction films (A tout prendre [1963], Nobody Waved Goodbye, and Le chat dans le sac [both 1964] respectively), on the back of independents like Sydney J. Furie’s groundbreaking A Dangerous Age (1959) and Larry Kent’s student feature The Bitter Ash (1963), but for all their youthful, semi-bohemian trappings, these were still quite po-faced affairs. Then came the “genial loser” films of the 70s, led by Owen’s Goin’ Down The Road (1970), and others such as The Rowdyman (Peter Carter, 1972) and Paperback Hero (Peter Pearson, 1973), for the...
- 2/20/2015
- by Tom Newth
- SoundOnSight
"Style in the Movies" is the central theme of this year's TCM Classic Film Festival, opening tonight in Los Angeles with the world premiere of the new restoration of Cabaret (1972) and running through the weekend. For the AP, Lynn Elber calls up Liza Minnelli, who'll be there with Joel Grey and, if he can make it, Michael York: "Minnelli, whose turn as cabaret singer Sally Bowles captured a best actress Academy Award and cemented her young stardom, said making Cabaret was a joyful 'secret,' filmed in Munich and far away from meddling Los Angeles studio bosses. Director Bob Fosse 'got away with murder. We all did,' Minnelli said… 'We'd take chances, and the studio would send notes like, "Too cloudy. It will break up on drive-in (screens)." Fosse would read that out loud, tear it up and throw it over his shoulder — in front of the whole cast and crew.
- 4/14/2012
- MUBI
Jason Sperb's new book, Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence, and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South, will be out soon from the University of Texas Press.
In other news. "Barbara, a slow-burning drama set in communist East Germany from director Christian Petzold, is the front runner for this year's Lolas, Germany's equivalent of the Oscar, with eight nominations, including best film." Scott Roxborough has more in the Hollywood Reporter; the Süddeutsche Zeitung has the full list. The awards will be presented in Berlin on April 27.
Los Angeles. "Maya Deren's best-known achievement, her remarkable 1943 dream-poem Meshes of the Afternoon, was just the beginning of a too-brief career," writes Tom von Logue Newth in the Weekly. "Her output would extend from experiments in psychodrama, like Meshes and Witch's Cradle, a fascinating, barely edited collaboration with Marcel Duchamp made during Deren's short period in Hollywood; to highly personal dance...
In other news. "Barbara, a slow-burning drama set in communist East Germany from director Christian Petzold, is the front runner for this year's Lolas, Germany's equivalent of the Oscar, with eight nominations, including best film." Scott Roxborough has more in the Hollywood Reporter; the Süddeutsche Zeitung has the full list. The awards will be presented in Berlin on April 27.
Los Angeles. "Maya Deren's best-known achievement, her remarkable 1943 dream-poem Meshes of the Afternoon, was just the beginning of a too-brief career," writes Tom von Logue Newth in the Weekly. "Her output would extend from experiments in psychodrama, like Meshes and Witch's Cradle, a fascinating, barely edited collaboration with Marcel Duchamp made during Deren's short period in Hollywood; to highly personal dance...
- 3/23/2012
- MUBI
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