NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of the Moving Image
A retrospective of snubbed performances brings the Wharton double-bill The Age of Innocence and Terence Davies’ criminally underseen The House of Mirth; World on a Wire and Thx 1138 screen on Saturday; the Stop Making Sense restoration plays throughout this weekend.
Film Forum
A retrospective of Japanese horror begins with Onibaba, Audition, Ugetsu and more; the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers plays this Sunday.
Bam
Films by John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Tony Scott and more play this weekend in “The Paranoid Style.”
Roxy Cinema
The Girlfriend Experience and Cape Fear play on 35mm this weekend.
Anthology Film Archives
The General plays on Saturday.
IFC Center
A Brian Yuzna retrospective is underway; Starship Troopers and The Shining play late.
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Museum of the Moving Image
A retrospective of snubbed performances brings the Wharton double-bill The Age of Innocence and Terence Davies’ criminally underseen The House of Mirth; World on a Wire and Thx 1138 screen on Saturday; the Stop Making Sense restoration plays throughout this weekend.
Film Forum
A retrospective of Japanese horror begins with Onibaba, Audition, Ugetsu and more; the Marx Brothers’ Horse Feathers plays this Sunday.
Bam
Films by John Carpenter, Brian De Palma, Oliver Stone, Tony Scott and more play this weekend in “The Paranoid Style.”
Roxy Cinema
The Girlfriend Experience and Cape Fear play on 35mm this weekend.
Anthology Film Archives
The General plays on Saturday.
IFC Center
A Brian Yuzna retrospective is underway; Starship Troopers and The Shining play late.
The post NYC Weekend Watch: Edith Wharton, Japanese Horror, Paranoid Cinema & More first appeared on The Film Stage.
- 3/1/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
There's nothing like a good miniseries. The ability to take as much time as needed to tell a dense yet self-contained story, marrying the immediacy and formal panache of great cinema to the narrative depth of great TV, has allowed many auteurs in both mediums to create some of their finest and most vital work.
Historically, miniseries have been the province of some of television's most memorable hits, from "Roots" to "Taken" to "Band of Brothers." Series like Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and Mike Nichols' "Angels in America" are also regularly cited in the upper tiers of master directors' filmographies. In recent years, the format has seen a kind of mainstream revival, thanks largely to the smashing success of titles like "The Queen's Gambit" and "Watchmen."
But countless miniseries from around the world remain that have yet to receive the attention they deserve. Here are 12 examples of...
Historically, miniseries have been the province of some of television's most memorable hits, from "Roots" to "Taken" to "Band of Brothers." Series like Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and Mike Nichols' "Angels in America" are also regularly cited in the upper tiers of master directors' filmographies. In recent years, the format has seen a kind of mainstream revival, thanks largely to the smashing success of titles like "The Queen's Gambit" and "Watchmen."
But countless miniseries from around the world remain that have yet to receive the attention they deserve. Here are 12 examples of...
- 3/25/2023
- by Leo Noboru Lima
- Slash Film
Co-Presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and Goethe-Institut Hongkong
Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema
18 – 21/4/2021
Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Tickets are available at Hong Kong Movie now.
Co-Presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and Goethe-Institut Hongkong, moving image programme Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema takes place at the Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre from 18 to 21 April 2021. Since the invention of the first stone tools nearly two million years ago up to the present digital era, technology has always been the means that humans use to fulfill desires, obtain resources, modify the world and explore possibilities. Film is also one of the means – by cinematically realising imaginations and establishing human connections.
Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Hongkong and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, this film showcase serves as an introduction to German science fiction films from the 1920s up till now,...
Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema
18 – 21/4/2021
Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Tickets are available at Hong Kong Movie now.
Co-Presented by Hong Kong Arts Centre and Goethe-Institut Hongkong, moving image programme Machines Like Us: Desires and Technology in German Cinema takes place at the Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre from 18 to 21 April 2021. Since the invention of the first stone tools nearly two million years ago up to the present digital era, technology has always been the means that humans use to fulfill desires, obtain resources, modify the world and explore possibilities. Film is also one of the means – by cinematically realising imaginations and establishing human connections.
Co-presented by Goethe-Institut Hongkong and the Hong Kong Arts Centre, this film showcase serves as an introduction to German science fiction films from the 1920s up till now,...
- 3/25/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong Arts Centre has long sought to complement this industry by delivering a diverse range of alternative and non-mainstream cinema, thereby promoting appreciation of the richness and range of the moving image practice to the public through presentation. With an in-house cinema, it organises thematic screening programmes ranging from film classics, cutting edge works, short film, documentary to the best in foreign and independent cinema. As a film and media arts hub in Asia, it also serves as an incubator for artists who work with the moving image.
Here are the programmes and screenings scheduled for the months of March and April:
Bangkok Nites
New Cinema Collective: The Emerging Power Of Asian Cinema
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2021.03.14 – 2021.03.25
Organised by New Cinema Collective, The Emerging Power of Asian Cinema aims to bring Hong Kong young filmmakers new inspiration and insight. Through case studies of Asian...
Here are the programmes and screenings scheduled for the months of March and April:
Bangkok Nites
New Cinema Collective: The Emerging Power Of Asian Cinema
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2021.03.14 – 2021.03.25
Organised by New Cinema Collective, The Emerging Power of Asian Cinema aims to bring Hong Kong young filmmakers new inspiration and insight. Through case studies of Asian...
- 3/10/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Miranda July’s “Me and You and Everyone We Know” premiered at Sundance in late January 2005, a few short weeks before YouTube went live on Valentine’s Day the following month. MySpace was in its infancy, Twitter hadn’t even been conceived, and Facebook was still new enough that most people just used it to “poke” strangers they didn’t have the courage to wave at in class.
While Paul Haggis’ “Crash” typified the kind of movies people were making about modern dislocation (read: self-absolving security blankets that wanted you to think a little irony would be enough to erase society’s oldest stains), Miranda July’s first feature poked its head into arthouse theaters with the prognosis to a problem that most of us hadn’t been able to put a finger on yet. July’s debut feature wasn’t the first movie about the internet (a sub-genre that...
While Paul Haggis’ “Crash” typified the kind of movies people were making about modern dislocation (read: self-absolving security blankets that wanted you to think a little irony would be enough to erase society’s oldest stains), Miranda July’s first feature poked its head into arthouse theaters with the prognosis to a problem that most of us hadn’t been able to put a finger on yet. July’s debut feature wasn’t the first movie about the internet (a sub-genre that...
- 7/10/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
If you’re not fighting the good fight on the front lines at hospitals, grocery stores or other essential public services as the coronavirus pandemic makes its way across the world, chances are you’re going to be home for a while. And whether you’re self-quaranting, social distancing or otherwise becoming one with your couch, you might look at this as an opportunity to tackle some epic-length movies that might otherwise have seemed daunting. Let us recommend some great ones.
(Note: With works this long, the concepts of “movie” and “miniseries” get rather muddled: “Berlin Alexanderplatz” was originally a miniseries on German TV but was released to theaters as a marathon viewing experience in the United States. Conversely, the Russian “War and Peace” was a mammoth movie — it won 1969’s Best Foreign Film Oscar — that the Criterion Channel now presents in more easily digestible chapter form. For our purposes,...
(Note: With works this long, the concepts of “movie” and “miniseries” get rather muddled: “Berlin Alexanderplatz” was originally a miniseries on German TV but was released to theaters as a marathon viewing experience in the United States. Conversely, the Russian “War and Peace” was a mammoth movie — it won 1969’s Best Foreign Film Oscar — that the Criterion Channel now presents in more easily digestible chapter form. For our purposes,...
- 3/18/2020
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
An examination of Fassbinder’s enigmatic, mind-bending sci-fi opus, World on a Wire. An unhinged computer programmer Professor Vollmer (Adrian Hoven) holds a pocket mirror to secretary of state Von Weinlaub (Heinz Meier). As Von Weinlaub reluctantly gazes into his reflection, Volmer exclaims, “You are nothing more than the image others have made of you.” Vollmers’ […]
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- 8/21/2018
- by Darby Delaney
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Lifelong gaming fan Steven Spielberg goes all-in for motion capture, with much different results than The Adventures of Tintin. It’s an ode to 1980s videogame fads and pop culture that could be re-titled ‘Astounding Adventures in Licensing.’ It’s Star Wars, Tron and Avatar mashed together for young teens, and more interesting than it ought to be.
Ready Player One
Ultra-hd + Blu-ray + Digital
Warner Brothers Home Video
2018 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 140 min. / Street Date July 26, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 44.95
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen.
Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen
Film Editors: Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn
Original Music: Alan Silvestri
Written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline based on his novel
Produced by Donald De Line, Dan Farah, Kristie Macosko, Steven Spielberg
Directed by Steven Spielberg
In early 1979 I was on the set...
Ready Player One
Ultra-hd + Blu-ray + Digital
Warner Brothers Home Video
2018 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 140 min. / Street Date July 26, 2018 / available through the WBshop / 44.95
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, T.J. Miller, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance, Philip Zhao, Win Morisaki, Hannah John-Kamen.
Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski
Production Design: Adam Stockhausen
Film Editors: Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn
Original Music: Alan Silvestri
Written by Zak Penn and Ernest Cline based on his novel
Produced by Donald De Line, Dan Farah, Kristie Macosko, Steven Spielberg
Directed by Steven Spielberg
In early 1979 I was on the set...
- 7/17/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
In honor of the 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey, we make our picks for the best cerebral science fiction films of all time. Here are picks #20 - 11.
The job of science fiction is to push boundaries. Indeed, the very description of science fiction suggests going a bit further than established fact. Science fiction is supposed to build on the known world around us. It is supposed to explore the unknown. When science fiction is at its best, this exploration is being fueled by our own human condition. The reason we are exploring outward is because there is an uncertainty inside. We feel incomplete in some regard, and the answers might be out there.
Science fiction films that can best communicate the relationship between the universe and our own minds tend to be the films that leave a lasting impression. This is my pick for the 20 films that do the best job of this.
The job of science fiction is to push boundaries. Indeed, the very description of science fiction suggests going a bit further than established fact. Science fiction is supposed to build on the known world around us. It is supposed to explore the unknown. When science fiction is at its best, this exploration is being fueled by our own human condition. The reason we are exploring outward is because there is an uncertainty inside. We feel incomplete in some regard, and the answers might be out there.
Science fiction films that can best communicate the relationship between the universe and our own minds tend to be the films that leave a lasting impression. This is my pick for the 20 films that do the best job of this.
- 4/11/2018
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Recommended VIEWINGWe're very much in love with Zama, Lucrecia Martel's long-anticipated return to filmmaking. The new trailer calls us back to our encounter of the film at Toronto last year and our conversation with the director.We all know that Rainer Werner Fassbinder made a lot—a whole lot—of films in his all too brief 15 years of activity, but it's truly remarkable how new (old) work of his keeps appearing. First there was the revelation of World on a Wire (1973) and now another made-for-tv epic has been restored and is being re-released, Eight Hours Are Not a Day (1972-1973). We wonder what other future delights and provocations Rwf has in store for us!Recommended READINGDoll & EmAt The Guardian, Lili Loofbourow takes a look at how stories about women are perceived and received differently than those about men.
- 3/15/2018
- MUBI
Night of the Shooting Stars: Zlotowski’s Mysterious Glance at a World on a Wire
As one character observes to another upon a chance reunion in post-wwii France, the trouble with nostalgic memories regarding the ‘innocence’ good old days of the pre-War period is reconciling one’s lack of foresight with the tragedy to come—if only everyone had been able to relish those simpler times more fully.
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As one character observes to another upon a chance reunion in post-wwii France, the trouble with nostalgic memories regarding the ‘innocence’ good old days of the pre-War period is reconciling one’s lack of foresight with the tragedy to come—if only everyone had been able to relish those simpler times more fully.
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- 8/10/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
"The Furniture" is our weekly series on Production Design. You can click on the images to see them in magnified detail.
by Daniel Walber
The films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, though they are many and varied, almost always have striking production design. The obvious examples include the ‘70s scifi chic of World on a Wire and the opulent apartment of Petra von Kant, but it's true of his whole catalogue. The design of Querelle is as bold as it is aroused. And as of this week it’s new to FilmStruck, a place where you can find tons of design classics (like La Ronde and Great Expectations, two of my favorites).
Querelle got terrible reviews when it opened in 1982. It’s often considered an oddity of excess at the end of a career built on precision, an oversexed and underwritten mess with little to say and too much to show.
by Daniel Walber
The films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, though they are many and varied, almost always have striking production design. The obvious examples include the ‘70s scifi chic of World on a Wire and the opulent apartment of Petra von Kant, but it's true of his whole catalogue. The design of Querelle is as bold as it is aroused. And as of this week it’s new to FilmStruck, a place where you can find tons of design classics (like La Ronde and Great Expectations, two of my favorites).
Querelle got terrible reviews when it opened in 1982. It’s often considered an oddity of excess at the end of a career built on precision, an oversexed and underwritten mess with little to say and too much to show.
- 7/3/2017
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
The late cinematographer Michael Ballhaus didn’t grow up watching movies. His parents were stage actors, and he first fell in love with the art of performance. And as a cinematographer, one of his many gifts was the way he captures actors’ faces and how his camera found its rhythm with their movements and emotions.
Read More: Martin Scorsese Remembers His Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus: ‘He Changed My Way Of Thinking’
He fell in love with movies at age 20 when he visited the set of Max Ophuls’ “Lola Montes.” Ballhaus spent 10 days on the circus set and became entranced by the period style and the master director’s virtuoso swirling camera movement. Not until Ballhaus’ later Hollywood work, on films like “The Age of Innocence” or “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” did he get the chance to work on lavish sets and play with all the toys of prestige filmmaking. Yet...
Read More: Martin Scorsese Remembers His Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus: ‘He Changed My Way Of Thinking’
He fell in love with movies at age 20 when he visited the set of Max Ophuls’ “Lola Montes.” Ballhaus spent 10 days on the circus set and became entranced by the period style and the master director’s virtuoso swirling camera movement. Not until Ballhaus’ later Hollywood work, on films like “The Age of Innocence” or “Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” did he get the chance to work on lavish sets and play with all the toys of prestige filmmaking. Yet...
- 4/13/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Check out these essentials even if you don’t catch the new movie.
Another week, another live-action remake of an animated classic. Well, you could argue that most of Ghost in the Shell isn’t really live action, since there’s so much that’s CG. You could also say it’s not a remake so much as a new adaptation of a Japanese comic book. Regardless, a lot of it is a pretty faithful copy, so a good percentage of this week’s list of Movies to Watch could apply to the manga or the anime versions of the story (I’m making it a given that you should see the original). That’s good for any of you boycotting the new movie due to its whitewashing controversy.
These 12 titles are worth seeing either way:
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Despite being a cheap, cheesy sci-fi B movie, this is a significant work for being possibly...
Another week, another live-action remake of an animated classic. Well, you could argue that most of Ghost in the Shell isn’t really live action, since there’s so much that’s CG. You could also say it’s not a remake so much as a new adaptation of a Japanese comic book. Regardless, a lot of it is a pretty faithful copy, so a good percentage of this week’s list of Movies to Watch could apply to the manga or the anime versions of the story (I’m making it a given that you should see the original). That’s good for any of you boycotting the new movie due to its whitewashing controversy.
These 12 titles are worth seeing either way:
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
Despite being a cheap, cheesy sci-fi B movie, this is a significant work for being possibly...
- 3/31/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question:
Recently, there has been a lot of chatter regarding projects like “O.J.: Made in America” (an eight-hour documentary that was produced by Espn but premiered at Sundance) and “Lemonade” (which needs no prior introduction, and debuted on HBO), and whether they should be classified as films or television shows.
The conversation has only grown more heated and urgent in the shadow of awards season, which demands that things be lumped into a small number of binary categories: Actor / Actress, Comedy / Drama, Fiction / Documentary, Film / Television. In a world where feature films are premiering on Netflix and miniseries-length documentaries are eligible for Oscars, should...
This week’s question:
Recently, there has been a lot of chatter regarding projects like “O.J.: Made in America” (an eight-hour documentary that was produced by Espn but premiered at Sundance) and “Lemonade” (which needs no prior introduction, and debuted on HBO), and whether they should be classified as films or television shows.
The conversation has only grown more heated and urgent in the shadow of awards season, which demands that things be lumped into a small number of binary categories: Actor / Actress, Comedy / Drama, Fiction / Documentary, Film / Television. In a world where feature films are premiering on Netflix and miniseries-length documentaries are eligible for Oscars, should...
- 12/12/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Mark and Aaron explore the popular genre that is science fiction. At the core of our discussion is a science fiction project that Aaron has been working on, but we also explore the genre on Criterion, and delve into Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s World on a Wire.
Episode Links & Notes
0:00 – Welcome and Intro
3:00 – The War Room, Thanks Keith
8:30 – Short Takes (Frau im Mond, The Fits, Captain America: Civil War, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Mysterious Island, Stalker)
29:00 – The Sci-Fi List Project
50:30 – Sci-Fi Criterion Titles
57:00 – World on a Wire
CCU39: The War Room Wonders in the Dark CCU12: The Brood & Early Cronenberg Musical Notation: Metropolis Great Criterion Sci-Fi (Corby D.) Criterion Science Fiction (kafkaesque) Taste of Cinema: 15 Great Scientific Movies in the Criterion Collection Episode Credits Mark Hurne: Twitter | Letterboxd Aaron West: Twitter | Blog | Letterboxd Criterion Close-Up: Facebook | Twitter | Email
Next time on the...
Episode Links & Notes
0:00 – Welcome and Intro
3:00 – The War Room, Thanks Keith
8:30 – Short Takes (Frau im Mond, The Fits, Captain America: Civil War, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Mysterious Island, Stalker)
29:00 – The Sci-Fi List Project
50:30 – Sci-Fi Criterion Titles
57:00 – World on a Wire
CCU39: The War Room Wonders in the Dark CCU12: The Brood & Early Cronenberg Musical Notation: Metropolis Great Criterion Sci-Fi (Corby D.) Criterion Science Fiction (kafkaesque) Taste of Cinema: 15 Great Scientific Movies in the Criterion Collection Episode Credits Mark Hurne: Twitter | Letterboxd Aaron West: Twitter | Blog | Letterboxd Criterion Close-Up: Facebook | Twitter | Email
Next time on the...
- 6/7/2016
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
Aaron is joined by Keith Enright for a discussion of politics, new and old, through the lens of The War Room (1993), the behind-the scenes 1992 Clinton campaign documentary. We go into depth about the backroom politics and how those are what defines the campaign, but are usually far from the public eye. We contrast the politics of today and yesterday by looking the current affairs and Robert Drew’s Primary.
About the film:
The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House—and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema verité filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker captured the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton’s crack team of consultants—especially James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their...
About the film:
The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House—and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, renowned cinema verité filmmakers Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker captured the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton’s crack team of consultants—especially James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, who became media stars in their...
- 5/31/2016
- by Aaron West
- CriterionCast
Now playing exclusively on Mubi, Androids Dream is a piece of minimalist sci-fi filmed in an eerily empty, out-of-season Benidorm, on the eastern coast of Spain. Based very loosely on Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (the source, of course, for Blade Runner), Ion de Sosa’s short feature conjures up a future world out of contemporary architecture in much the same way as Godard’s Alphaville and Fassbinder’s World on a Wire. The poster for the film was designed by David Uzquiza, a Spanish designer based in London who works primarily in fashion publications. As a friend of De Sosa’s he was asked to design the titles and the key art for the film, and he came up with a number of designs which you can see below. The final poster uses an illustration with an interesting provenance that appears within Androids Dream.
- 4/22/2016
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Each week, the fine folks at Fandor add a number of films to their Criterion Picks area, which will then be available to subscribers for the following twelve days. This week, the Criterion Picks focus on eight films from Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Fall in love with a giant of New German Cinema with a selection of curated highlights from the prolific yet truncated career of iconoclast director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise, and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats The Soul,...
Fall in love with a giant of New German Cinema with a selection of curated highlights from the prolific yet truncated career of iconoclast director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with this update of that filmmaker’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows. A lonely widow meets a much younger Arab worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise, and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies. In Ali: Fear Eats The Soul,...
- 9/29/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Robert Enrico's literally searing terror tale from the French occupation is not for the faint of heart. Fearing reprisals, surgeon Philippe Noiret sends his wife Romy Schneider out of harm's way of the retreating Germans -- but things go horribly wrong. What follows is an ordeal of vengeance even more brutal than Straw Dogs, fought to the finish in a medieval castle. The Old Gun MGM Limited Edition Collection DVD-r 1975 / Color / 1:78 enhanced widescreen / 102 87 min. / Le vieux fusil / Street Date September 8, 2015 / available through Screen Archives Entertainment / 19.95 Starring Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider, Jean Bouise, Joachim Hansen, Robert Hoffmann, Karl Michael Vogler, Madeleine Ozeray, Caroline Bonhomme, Catherine Delaporte, Daniel Breton, Jean-Paul Cisife, Antoine Saint-John. Cinematography Étienne Becker Film Editor Ava Zora Original Music François de Roubaix Written by Robert Enrico, Pascal Jardin, Claude Veillot Produced by Pierre Caro Directed by Robert Enrico
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Some of us can remember...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Some of us can remember...
- 9/22/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
A year before his tragic death in 1982, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder — the cinema outlaw poet whose filmography included over 40 films and the epic TV mini-series "World on a Wire" and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" — put together a list of his top 10 favorite films. How did they influence him? Fassbinder's very favorite was Visconti's "The Damned," a visually sumptuous panorama of societal collapse and decay in Third Reich Germany and no doubt an influence on the German auteur's own "Brd Trilogy," in particular the bawdy, bordello-set "Lola." Watch: Watch: Rw Fassbinder's Early Godard-Inspired Short "A Little Chaos" In his early days, Fassbinder wore his influences like a beret, cribbing the style of early Godard films to make coolly composed black-and-white tales of chic Europeans and their nihilism. But then he found a style all his own: rich, character-driven psychodramas, meta-movie exercises and romantic...
- 6/1/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Weekend update: Emir Kusturica pays tribute to the Bosnian-Serb radical who set in train a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Glenn Kenny considers Fassbinder's use of Fleetwood Mac's 1969 hit single "Albatross" in World on a Wire (1973). David Cronenberg's made a new short in conjunction with an exhibition in Amsterdam and his forthcoming novel. And much more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/29/2014
- Keyframe
Weekend update: Emir Kusturica pays tribute to the Bosnian-Serb radical who set in train a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Glenn Kenny considers Fassbinder's use of Fleetwood Mac's 1969 hit single "Albatross" in World on a Wire (1973). David Cronenberg's made a new short in conjunction with an exhibition in Amsterdam and his forthcoming novel. And much more. » - David Hudson...
- 6/29/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Blu-ray Release Date: Sept. 30, 2014
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem star in Fassbinder's Ali: Fears Eats the Soul.
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with the 1974 drama Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, an update of Sirk’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows.
A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
In the movie Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.
Criterion issued a DVD edition of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul back in 2003. This new Blu-ray version includes the following features, all...
Price: Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem star in Fassbinder's Ali: Fears Eats the Soul.
The wildly prolific German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) paid homage to his cinematic hero Douglas Sirk with the 1974 drama Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, an update of Sirk’s 1955 All That Heaven Allows.
A lonely widow (Brigitte Mira) meets a much younger Arab worker (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise—and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.
In the movie Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of classic Hollywood melodrama to expose the racial tensions underlying contemporary German culture.
Criterion issued a DVD edition of Ali: Fear Eats the Soul back in 2003. This new Blu-ray version includes the following features, all...
- 6/24/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
I’m So Excited (Los amantes pasajeros)
Directed by Pedro Almodovar
Written by Pedro Almodovar
2013, Spain
For three decades, Pedro Almodovar has been the most internationally successful purveyor of queer cinema. His first film, 1980’s Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap, was released just two years before Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s too-soon swan-song, Querelle. Though the directors possess distinctly different approaches to the medium (Almodovar hasn’t yet gone sci-fi ala World on A Wire, for instance), their films were among the first brashly and unapologetically queer films that were both critically accepted and widely seen. Fassbinder’s films, operating under the New German Cinema umbrella, aggressively proclaimed their institutional critique by way of difficult, at times unpalatable imagery (Remember In A Year of Seven Moons?), while Almodovar’s commentary is often, but no less importantly, couched beneath the artifice of camp and melodrama. Because Almodovar oftentimes...
Directed by Pedro Almodovar
Written by Pedro Almodovar
2013, Spain
For three decades, Pedro Almodovar has been the most internationally successful purveyor of queer cinema. His first film, 1980’s Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap, was released just two years before Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s too-soon swan-song, Querelle. Though the directors possess distinctly different approaches to the medium (Almodovar hasn’t yet gone sci-fi ala World on A Wire, for instance), their films were among the first brashly and unapologetically queer films that were both critically accepted and widely seen. Fassbinder’s films, operating under the New German Cinema umbrella, aggressively proclaimed their institutional critique by way of difficult, at times unpalatable imagery (Remember In A Year of Seven Moons?), while Almodovar’s commentary is often, but no less importantly, couched beneath the artifice of camp and melodrama. Because Almodovar oftentimes...
- 6/23/2013
- by John Oursler
- SoundOnSight
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir.
- 6/6/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Amazon is having a massive sale on Criterion Collection titles, virtually all of them listed at 50% off and I have included more than 115 of the available titles directly below along with a selection of ten I consider must owns. Titles beyond my top ten include Amarcord, Christopher Nolan's Following, David Fincher's The Game, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory and The Killing, Roman Polansk's Rosemary's Baby, Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore and The Darjeeling Limited and plenty of Terrence Malick. All the links lead directly to the Amazon website, so click on through with confidence. Small Note: By buying through the links below you help support RopeofSilicon.com as I get a small commission for the sales made through using these links. Thanks for reading and I appreciate your support. Top Ten Must Owns 8 1/2 (dir. Federico Fellini) 12 Angry Men (dir. Sidney Lumet) The 400 Blows (dir.
- 6/6/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
DVD Release Date: Aug. 27, 2013
Price: DVD $69.95
Studio: Criterion
R. W. Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) refused to play by the rules. His politically charged, experimental first films, made at an astonishingly rapid rate between 1969 and 1971, were influenced by the work of the antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped found in Munich.
Collected in Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder are five of those fascinating and confrontational works; whether a self-conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-wall look at the dysfunctional relationships on film sets, each is a startling glimpse into the mind of a twenty-something man who would become one of the cinema’s most prolific artists.
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
For his debut, Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic,...
Price: DVD $69.95
Studio: Criterion
R. W. Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore (1971)
From the very beginning of his incandescent career, the New German Cinema enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder (World on a Wire) refused to play by the rules. His politically charged, experimental first films, made at an astonishingly rapid rate between 1969 and 1971, were influenced by the work of the antiteater, an avant-garde stage troupe that he had helped found in Munich.
Collected in Eclipse Series 39: Early Fassbinder are five of those fascinating and confrontational works; whether a self-conscious meditation on American crime movies, a scathing indictment of xenophobia in contemporary Germany, or an off-the-wall look at the dysfunctional relationships on film sets, each is a startling glimpse into the mind of a twenty-something man who would become one of the cinema’s most prolific artists.
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
For his debut, Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic,...
- 6/6/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
A year before his death in 1982, vigorously prolific German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder -- whose filmography includes over 40 films and the epic TV mini-series "World on a Wire" and "Berlin Alexanderplatz" -- published a list of his top 10 favorite films. It's fascinating to see how each of these films influenced him. Fassbinder's favorite film was Visconti's "The Damned," a visually sumptuous portrayal of societal collapse and excess in Third Reich Germany and no doubt an influence on the German auteur's own "Brd Trilogy," in particular the bawdy bordello-set "Lola." Fassbinder also named Max Ophuls' 1955 "Lola Montes," a tragic tale of a kept woman shot in the kind of gloriously rendered color Fassbinder would later employ in his own work. And as with a number of top 10 lists compiled by confrontational filmmakers, Pasolini's beautifully ugly descent into hell "Salo" was also a favorite of Fassbinder's, as it is for Michael Haneke.
- 5/1/2013
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
Amazon.com are in the midst of offering the last of their DVD and Blu-ray sales deals for the holiday weekend and for Cyber Monday they seem to be doing something special for lovers of the Criterion Collection.
The prestige label offers its classic film titles on Blu-ray at a retail price of $40 and usually sell online for $35. Every now and then Barnes & Noble will hold half price sales with titles going for at least $20. Today, Amazon is selling various key ones for $18 and $21 a piece.
Amongst the titles on offer there's film classics like "8 1/2," "12 Angry Men," "The 39 Steps," "Antichrist," "Being John Malkovich," "Black Narcissus," "Blow Out," "Brazil," "Carlos," "Charade," "Che," "Cronos," "Days of Heaven," "Diabolique," "The Darjeeling Limited," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "The Game," "Godzilla," "Hunger," "In the Mood for Love," "The Last Temptation of Christ," "M," "Night of the Hunter," "Paths of Glory," "Rashomon," "The Red Shoes,...
The prestige label offers its classic film titles on Blu-ray at a retail price of $40 and usually sell online for $35. Every now and then Barnes & Noble will hold half price sales with titles going for at least $20. Today, Amazon is selling various key ones for $18 and $21 a piece.
Amongst the titles on offer there's film classics like "8 1/2," "12 Angry Men," "The 39 Steps," "Antichrist," "Being John Malkovich," "Black Narcissus," "Blow Out," "Brazil," "Carlos," "Charade," "Che," "Cronos," "Days of Heaven," "Diabolique," "The Darjeeling Limited," "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," "The Game," "Godzilla," "Hunger," "In the Mood for Love," "The Last Temptation of Christ," "M," "Night of the Hunter," "Paths of Glory," "Rashomon," "The Red Shoes,...
- 11/26/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
News.
Above: Cinetract 2: Revolution Is in the Eye of the Beholder, a video essay by David Phelps. The video is part of a new issue of one of our very favorite—and one of the best—film magazines in the world, La Furia Umana, which is now out. Each issue is focused on dossiers on particular directors, and this issue includes essential articles on Leo McCarey, Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Claude Rousseau and José Luis Guerín. In the McCarey dossier are pieces by our very own Daniel Kasman—on the Cary Grant & Ginger Rogers vs. the Nazis film, Once Upon a Honeymoon—and Ted Fendt on McCarey's Charley Chase comedy shorts. But don't ignore the depth and variety of articles outside this center, which include searing video pieces by Notebook regulars David Phelps—on Lang, Vertov and protest—and Gina Telaroli on Joan Bennett, Max Ophüls, The Reckless Moment and the reflections of American presidents.
Above: Cinetract 2: Revolution Is in the Eye of the Beholder, a video essay by David Phelps. The video is part of a new issue of one of our very favorite—and one of the best—film magazines in the world, La Furia Umana, which is now out. Each issue is focused on dossiers on particular directors, and this issue includes essential articles on Leo McCarey, Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Claude Rousseau and José Luis Guerín. In the McCarey dossier are pieces by our very own Daniel Kasman—on the Cary Grant & Ginger Rogers vs. the Nazis film, Once Upon a Honeymoon—and Ted Fendt on McCarey's Charley Chase comedy shorts. But don't ignore the depth and variety of articles outside this center, which include searing video pieces by Notebook regulars David Phelps—on Lang, Vertov and protest—and Gina Telaroli on Joan Bennett, Max Ophüls, The Reckless Moment and the reflections of American presidents.
- 7/4/2012
- MUBI
During the writing of this article, Ray Bradbury, one of the great founding fathers of sci-fi dystopia, passed away. With his seminal book, Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Bradbury gained recognition as an important figure not only in the science fiction community but the literary world in general. Recently, The New Yorker published a touching essay by the author in which he shared the origin of his love for science fiction. It is a beautiful ode to childhood and the discovery of one’s true passion. The essay will prove to future generations that, even in his last days, Bradbury’s ability to move and inspire never diminished.
Sci-fi dystopia has found great prominence in its movement from literature to film. Authors like George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and most frequently, Philip K. Dick have had their novels and short stories adapted to film, albeit not always successfully. With cinematic works like Metropolis, Akira,...
Sci-fi dystopia has found great prominence in its movement from literature to film. Authors like George Orwell, Ray Bradbury and most frequently, Philip K. Dick have had their novels and short stories adapted to film, albeit not always successfully. With cinematic works like Metropolis, Akira,...
- 6/6/2012
- by Byron Camacho
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Flashback to the spring of 1998 — yours truly is living in Philadelphia and desperately looking for another city to call my home. I am not ashamed to admit that I plan on basing a significant part of this decision on the quality of programming at movie theaters in each city. Austin is the clear favorite in this category. I fondly remember falling in love with the Alamo Drafthouse during SXSW 1998 (beer! food! movies!), but it is my virginal foray into the Paramount Theatre that remains emblazoned upon my mind. Despite earning a masters degree in cinema studies, I never had access to a repertory cinema before. Sure, I studied the history of cinema but I watched all of the films on television. Now, I am finally experiencing those films in the way that they were intended to be seen! It might be hard to believe, but up until that fateful summer, I...
- 5/21/2012
- by Don Simpson
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
This week I don't have anything specific to feature, but I did watch David Lean's Blithe Spirit and This Happy Breed, two films in Criterion's recent David Lean Directs Noel Coward box set, but I still have In Which We Serve to watch before I can review the set. I also started watching Rainer Werner Fassbinder's World On a Wire, but still have about two-and-a-half hours left to watch in the 212-minute feature. Then, over the weekend I caught parts of The Matrix Reloaded on television and that's about it. Sorry I don't have more to share, but hopefully you can add a few thoughts to the conversation. Anyone catch Titanic in 3-D? I was actually going to try (and still might tonight) but Easter weekend festivities got in the way.
- 4/8/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Reviewer: Philip Tatler IV
Ratings (out of five): *****
I really don’t want to say a thing about World on a Wire. I wish you could just take the above five-star rating to heart and watch it, untainted by any sort of preconceived notion other than how awesome it is.
That said, I’ll try my best to describe its awesomeness while tiptoeing around the finer points of the plot.
World on a Wire is a made-for-German-television science fiction film directed by enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film is set during an approximation of the present in a Euro-metropolis. A technological thinktank – the Ikz – is developing a synthetic reality, known as Simulacron-b. The project’s purpose is to create an algorithm that can predict future occurrences so that trends in business, defense, and government can be anticipated and planned for. Simulacron-b is a resounding success and a few...
Ratings (out of five): *****
I really don’t want to say a thing about World on a Wire. I wish you could just take the above five-star rating to heart and watch it, untainted by any sort of preconceived notion other than how awesome it is.
That said, I’ll try my best to describe its awesomeness while tiptoeing around the finer points of the plot.
World on a Wire is a made-for-German-television science fiction film directed by enfant terrible Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film is set during an approximation of the present in a Euro-metropolis. A technological thinktank – the Ikz – is developing a synthetic reality, known as Simulacron-b. The project’s purpose is to create an algorithm that can predict future occurrences so that trends in business, defense, and government can be anticipated and planned for. Simulacron-b is a resounding success and a few...
- 3/23/2012
- by weezy
- GreenCine
0:00 - Intro / Post-Genies Rant 24:15 - Headlines: First Official Photo from The Lone Ranger, Nicolas Cage Comic Book Heist Comedy, Chronicle Director in Talks for Venom Movie, Man Sues Movie Theatre for Overpriced Snacks 47:00 - Review: John Carter 1:22:35 - Review: The Skin I Live In 1:51:40 - Trailer Trash: Men in Black 3 1:57:00 - Other Stuff We Watched: Celebrity Apprentice, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, The Swell Season, Survivor: One World, World on a Wire, Cane Toads: The Conquest, The Satan Bug, Immortals, Merantau, Hugo, Dances with Wolves 2:50:50 - Junk Mail: Oscar Relevance, Fantasy Film League, Actors Paired in Multiple Movies of Different Genres, Why Some Special Effects Don't Hold Up, Torrents and Film Sharing 3:09:15 - This Week's DVD Releases 3:14:00 - Outro
Film Junk Podcast Episode #361: John Carter and The Skin I Live In by Filmjunk on...
Film Junk Podcast Episode #361: John Carter and The Skin I Live In by Filmjunk on...
- 3/13/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
World on a Wire Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Written by Fritz Müller-Scherz and Rainer Werner Fassbinder Starring Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, Adrian Hoven I’d never heard of World on a Wire before Criterion’s announcement of its re-mastering and subsequent theatrical re-release in 2010. The trailer they’d put together hooked me immediately, based mostly on the retro-future set design and the promise of a strange, hard sci-fi thriller full of intrigue and mystery. The picture did not disappoint. With the recent blu ray release, I was thankful to be able to sit down with this epic film once again and try and make sense of any details I’d missed the first time around. In the not-too-distant future, a supercomputer called ‘Simulacron’ provides scientists with the ability to simulate and study a virtual society comprised of 10,000 ‘identity units’. When the technical director of the program, professor Vollmer,...
- 3/8/2012
- by Jay C.
- FilmJunk
DVD Playhouse—March 2012
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
By Allen Gardner
J. Edgar (Warner Bros.) Director Clint Eastwood provides a rock-solid, albeit rather flat portrait of polarizing FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, covering his life from late teens to his death. Leonardo DiCaprio does an impressive turn as Hoover, never crossing the line into caricature, and creating a Hoover that is all too human, making for an all the more unsettling look at absolute power run amuck. Where the film stumbles is the love story at its core: Hoover’s relationship with longtime aide Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). In the hands of an openly-gay director like Gus Van Sant, this could have been a heartbreaking, tender story of forbidden (unrequited?) love, but Eastwood seems to tiptoe around their romance, with far too much delicacy and deference. The film works well when recreating the famous crimes and investigations which Hoover made his name on (the Lindbergh kidnapping,...
- 3/7/2012
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Yes, the Oscars are being held tonite and despite Bad Lit’s predilection towards underground film, we will be watching, red carpet and all. But, if you want to kill time during the commercials, then consider clicking on some extra links below and boning up on non-Oscar film.
This week’s Absolute Must Read is J. J. Murphy’s Best Indie Films of 2011 list and commentary. In general, I rarely read movie reviews, but I find Murphy’s reviews to always be so insightful, educational and entertaining, that I savor every word of them — and you should, too! I’m also 100% with him when he discusses the issues of writing about over-looked and under-appreciated movies. It can be absolutely heartbreaking work, but we do it because we love it. And the other thing about Murphy’s reviews is that they always make me want to run right out and see...
This week’s Absolute Must Read is J. J. Murphy’s Best Indie Films of 2011 list and commentary. In general, I rarely read movie reviews, but I find Murphy’s reviews to always be so insightful, educational and entertaining, that I savor every word of them — and you should, too! I’m also 100% with him when he discusses the issues of writing about over-looked and under-appreciated movies. It can be absolutely heartbreaking work, but we do it because we love it. And the other thing about Murphy’s reviews is that they always make me want to run right out and see...
- 2/26/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Frances Farmer
Relax. That's just a hairdresser behind her.
Before today's roundup gets rolling, I want to mention that David Phelps is conducting an experiment you should know about, The Secret History of America.
The liveliest read of the day comes from Matt Evans in the Morning News, a furious pitch for Frances Farmer — the actual woman and actress, not the lobotomized zombie portrayed by Jessica Lange in Frances (1982). Have fun.
"Why I Pirate Movies: A Self-Justification." Mike D'Angelo can't be surprised that he's kicked up a virtual storm. It began in the comments following that entry and has since blown over to Twitter.
Andy Warhol died 25 years ago today. Alex Needham examines the legacy in the Guardian and, in the Voice, Camille Dodero asks, "what does Andy Warhol's New York City look like today?"
Today's review of Geoff Dyer's Zona comes from R Emmet Sweeney at Movie Morlocks.
Relax. That's just a hairdresser behind her.
Before today's roundup gets rolling, I want to mention that David Phelps is conducting an experiment you should know about, The Secret History of America.
The liveliest read of the day comes from Matt Evans in the Morning News, a furious pitch for Frances Farmer — the actual woman and actress, not the lobotomized zombie portrayed by Jessica Lange in Frances (1982). Have fun.
"Why I Pirate Movies: A Self-Justification." Mike D'Angelo can't be surprised that he's kicked up a virtual storm. It began in the comments following that entry and has since blown over to Twitter.
Andy Warhol died 25 years ago today. Alex Needham examines the legacy in the Guardian and, in the Voice, Camille Dodero asks, "what does Andy Warhol's New York City look like today?"
Today's review of Geoff Dyer's Zona comes from R Emmet Sweeney at Movie Morlocks.
- 2/24/2012
- MUBI
DVD or Blu-ray? Redbox or Netflix? Streaming? Whatever your poison, we've got the highlights and lowlights on the week's new releases -- as well a double-shot of exclusive Clint Eastwood clips from the new release "J. Edgar" and the 20th anniversary Blu-ray of "Unforgiven." Moviefone's Pick of the Week "Puss in Boots"(Friday, February 24) What's It About? Antonio Banderas' fan-favorite feline from the "Shrek' series gets his own movie. With Humpty Dumpty and the mysterious Kitty Softpaws at his side, the swashbuckling cat attempts to steal golden goose eggs from a giant's castle, and creates a whole new set of fractured fairy tale adventures. See It Because: Even if the "Shrek" series has worn thin, "Puss" has enough lively charm to feel like something new; the voice cast plays their parts with a lot of loose, madcap energy and the animation is wonderfully imaginative. Also Available On Redbox...
- 2/21/2012
- by Eric Larnick
- Moviefone
It's cults, cats and Clint this week on DVD and Blu-ray as Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar arrives in stores along with the Shrek spin-off Puss in Boots and the Sundance hit Martha Marcy May Marlene. Other major releases include Brett Ratner's middling Tower Heist, London Boulevard starring Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley, and the latest film directed by Emilio Estevez, The Way, co-starring his father. In terms of TV releases, we have new season of Showtime's Nurse Jackie and Weeds, and Criterion is delivering new editions of a the courtroom classic Anatomy of a Murder and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's long lost sci-fi film World on a Wire. What will you be buying or renting this week? Check out the full list of releases after the jump. Amazon.com Widgets
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- 2/21/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Anatomy of a Murder (Criterion Collection) I looked back through my Netflix queue to see when I first watched Anatomy of a Murder and it turns out it was back in January 2009 and while I remembered enjoying it I didn't remember the film per se. So it was a treat to pop this new Criterion Blu-ray in the player and settle in to Otto Preminger's 1959 thriller with James Stewart in the lead and an impressive supporting cast and a feature filled with dialogue you can't get enough of.
As for the transfer, it's almost too good as a moment early on featuring the makeup on Lee Remick's bruised face is so obvious it's almost comical, but you're hardly paying attention as she does everything in her power to seduce Stewart into taking her husband's case.
Anatomy for a Murder may best be known in the movie blogosphere as...
As for the transfer, it's almost too good as a moment early on featuring the makeup on Lee Remick's bruised face is so obvious it's almost comical, but you're hardly paying attention as she does everything in her power to seduce Stewart into taking her husband's case.
Anatomy for a Murder may best be known in the movie blogosphere as...
- 2/21/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
For many years Welt am Draht, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 three-and-a-half hour, made-for-tv science fiction opus was one of the late German directors’ most underscreened films. Dazzlingly stylish, and with narrative and thematic concerns anticipating the cyberpunk themes that would take root in science fiction more than a decade later, the film was only shown in America once in 1997 — that is, before it was restored and received a short run at MoMA in 2010. Fassbinder was quoted in MoMA’s catalogue as saying the film, translated as World on a Wire, is “a very beautiful story that depicts a world where one is able to make projections of people using a computer. And, of course, this leads to the uncertainty of whether someone himself is a projection, since in the virtual world projections resemble reality. Perhaps another, larger world has made us as a virtual one? In this sense it deals with the old philosophical model,...
- 1/10/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
For many years Welt am Draht, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 three-and-a-half hour, made-for-tv science fiction opus was one of the late German directors’ most underscreened films. Dazzlingly stylish, and with narrative and thematic concerns anticipating the cyberpunk themes that would take root in science fiction more than a decade later, the film was only shown in America once in 1997 — that is, before it was restored and received a short run at MoMA in 2010. Fassbinder was quoted in MoMA’s catalogue as saying the film, translated as World on a Wire, is “a very beautiful story that depicts a world where one is able to make projections of people using a computer. And, of course, this leads to the uncertainty of whether someone himself is a projection, since in the virtual world projections resemble reality. Perhaps another, larger world has made us as a virtual one? In this sense it deals with the old philosophical model,...
- 1/7/2012
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Looking back at 2011 on what films moved and impressed us it becomes more and more clear—to me at least—that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, our end of year poll, now an annual tradition, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2011—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2011 to create a unique double feature. Many contributors chose their favorites of 2011, some picked out-of-the-way gems, others made some pretty strange connections—and some frankly just want to create a kerfuffle. All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2011 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative...
- 1/5/2012
- MUBI
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 21, 2011
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The future has a look all its own in Fassbinder's 1973 film World on a Wire.
The 1973 science-fiction drama World On a Wire, a 3½-hour movie made for German television by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (I Only Want You To Love Me), is a very inventive and equally paranoid film about the future.
With dashes of Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) and novelists Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick, World on a Wire tells the noir-spiked tale of a reluctant hero, Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch, Fassbinder’s Despair), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. His discovery involves the reality of life itself, which Stiller learns might very well be an artificial creation. It’s a heady idea that results in the deaths of those who know too much about it — and a concept that’s referred to today as “virtual reality.
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
The future has a look all its own in Fassbinder's 1973 film World on a Wire.
The 1973 science-fiction drama World On a Wire, a 3½-hour movie made for German television by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (I Only Want You To Love Me), is a very inventive and equally paranoid film about the future.
With dashes of Stanley Kubrick (A Clockwork Orange) and novelists Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K. Dick, World on a Wire tells the noir-spiked tale of a reluctant hero, Fred Stiller (Klaus Lowitsch, Fassbinder’s Despair), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. His discovery involves the reality of life itself, which Stiller learns might very well be an artificial creation. It’s a heady idea that results in the deaths of those who know too much about it — and a concept that’s referred to today as “virtual reality.
- 12/2/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Photos from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo, Playing the Field, Brave, Arthur Christmas, This Must Be the Place, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Butter, and Ada Wong on the set of Resident Evil: Retribution.
Posters for Young Adult, Titanic 3D, Being Flynn, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Underworld Awakening and The Iron Lady.
"Summit Entertainment estimates that this weekend’s domestic opening of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" will be around $110 million to $125 million, behind only "New Moon"…" (full details)
"Comedy Central has renewed animated series "South Park" for three more seasons. The deal will keep the series on through 2016 and extend its run to twenty seasons…" (full details)
"Walt Disney Studios have proudly announced that a new animated short film based on "Tangled" will screen with "Beauty and the Beast in 3D" opening on January 13th 2012. The short spotlights the royal wedding of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and...
Posters for Young Adult, Titanic 3D, Being Flynn, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, Underworld Awakening and The Iron Lady.
"Summit Entertainment estimates that this weekend’s domestic opening of "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" will be around $110 million to $125 million, behind only "New Moon"…" (full details)
"Comedy Central has renewed animated series "South Park" for three more seasons. The deal will keep the series on through 2016 and extend its run to twenty seasons…" (full details)
"Walt Disney Studios have proudly announced that a new animated short film based on "Tangled" will screen with "Beauty and the Beast in 3D" opening on January 13th 2012. The short spotlights the royal wedding of Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and...
- 11/16/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Beginning today, Sliff, the St. Louis International Film Festival, celebrates its 20th year honoring feature films, short films, animation, and documentaries. The Tivoli Theater, Plaza Frontenac, Webster University, and Washington University play host once again this year. From Nov. 10 – 20, the “Gateway to the West” will welcome many acclaimed films and filmmakers that will undoubtedly be some of the films on everyone’s top lists at the end of the year. Some of the most anticipated films playing the festival include, The Artist, A Dangerous Method, Shame, The Descendants, and We Need to Talk About Kevin. Oscar buzz has already been generated by a few of these films from previous festival appearances. Some of these films playing the festival may not appeal to the “genre” loving readers of this site. That is why, we here at Destroy the Brain! have gone through the 400 plus films being presented and have spotlighted the...
- 11/10/2011
- by Michael Haffner
- Destroy the Brain
The 20th Annual Stella Artois St. Louis International Film Festival (better known to local movie buffs as Sliff) is presented by Cinema St. Louis and begins this Thursday, November 10th. The fest looks like another exciting event for film buffs. Now in its 20th year, Sliff is one of the largest international film festivals in the Midwest. This year’s event will be held Nov. 10-20. Sliff’s main venues are the Tivoli Theatre, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, and Webster University’s Winifred Moore Auditorium with additional screenings at the Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, Il, and Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University. Sliff showcases the best in cutting-edge features and shorts from around the globe. The majority of the more than 300 films screened – many of them critically lauded award-winners will receive their only St. Louis exposure at the festival. We Are Movie Geeks.com will be posting reviews of...
- 11/7/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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