Above: Danish poster for Maid for Murder a.k.a. She’ll Have to Go (Robert Asher, UK, 1962).Next week is a red letter week for New York cinephiles because Anna Karina is coming to town. Nouvelle vague icon, muse of Jean-Luc Godard, and one of the most alluring presences in cinema, Anna Karina, now aged 75 and still gorgeous, is gracing us with her presence at three of New York’s temples of cinema: at Bam on Tuesday, May 3, where she will talk to Melissa Anderson following a screening of A Woman is a Woman; at MoMI on Wednesday, May 4, where she will have a conversation with Molly Haskell following a screening of Pierrot le fou; and at Film Forum on Friday, May 6, where she will kick off a week long run of Band of Outsiders and the accompanying series Anna & Jean-Luc. It would be easy to fill this post...
- 5/1/2016
- MUBI
R. Budd Dwyer was the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania in the 1980s, a humble and modest man who rose his way to the top after serving in Pennsylvania’s State Senate in the 1970s. He wasn’t really known nationally outside of his jurisdiction, until being caught up in a bribery scandal led to call a press conference, seemingly to resign after being convicted of accepted bribes. Instead, he read a long speech saying goodbye to his position, then put a gun in his mouth and killed himself in front of television cameras. His death was not only shocking, but raised ethics of whether it was appropriate to air his death on TV in the name of journalism, or if people capitalized on the salaciousness of his final moments. Honest Man, a film by James Dirschbeger, takes Dwyer’s story and expands it beyond his notoriety, to look at a...
- 1/23/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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