With 2010 only a week over, it already feels like best-of and top-ten lists have been pouring in for months, and we’re already tired of them: the ranking, the exclusions (and inclusions), the rules and the qualifiers. Some people got to see films at festivals, others only catch movies on video; and the ability for us, or any publication, to come up with a system to fairly determine who saw what when and what they thought was the best seems an impossible feat. That doesn’t stop most people from doing it, but we liked the fantasy double features we did last year and for our 3rd Writers Poll we thought we'd do it again.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
- 1/10/2011
- MUBI
Updated through 8/19.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is touting The Sign of Rohmer, opening this afternoon with a screening of Eric Rohmer's debut feature, The Sign of Leo (1959; Richard Brody has a capsule review in the New Yorker) and running through September 3, as the "most complete North American retrospective of Rohmer's work in more than a decade, including all of his feature films and the Us premiere of his 1980 TV film Catherine de Heilbronn. Plus special in-person appearances by key Rohmer collaborators."...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center is touting The Sign of Rohmer, opening this afternoon with a screening of Eric Rohmer's debut feature, The Sign of Leo (1959; Richard Brody has a capsule review in the New Yorker) and running through September 3, as the "most complete North American retrospective of Rohmer's work in more than a decade, including all of his feature films and the Us premiere of his 1980 TV film Catherine de Heilbronn. Plus special in-person appearances by key Rohmer collaborators."...
- 8/19/2010
- MUBI
The oldest member of 1960s France’s Nouvelle Vague, the late Eric Rohmer receives the retrospective treatment starting today, through September 3rd, at New York’s Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center with “The Sign of Rohmer.” Rohmer had a style all his own that was not really picked up on until many years later, and indirectly at that, arguably in the 1990s and now quite prevalently in today’s indie cinema. He started with an idea, and then created a film as an essay about that idea. This is the essence of film as art. Pictures like "The Kids Are All Right" and "Cyrus," likely unconsciously, are more mainstream and significantly less-intellectualized versions of Rohmer constructs. They each start with an idea, or conflict, and then we watch characters discuss that idea—with plot only functioning as a means to bring us different sides of the arguments. Highlights are...
- 8/18/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
As an end-of-summer treat, the Film Society of Lincoln Center offers up a comprehensive retrospective of Eric Rohmer, the founding father of the French New Wave. The next best thing to spending the summer in France is diving into the oeuvre of the most quintessentially French of all filmmakers, Eric Rohmer. On the 60th anniversary of the French New Wave, this comprehensive retrospective includes every Rohmer feature film, the U.S. premiere of his 1980 TV film Catherine de Heilbronn, and in person appearances by key Rohmer collaborators. This program is a fitting tribute to the master Rohmer, who died in January at the age of 89. The Collector Rohmer came to prominence in the late '60s and early '70s with a series of films known as Six Moral Tales, four of which were made with his longtime collaborator, the brilliant cinematographer Nestor Almendros: The Collector, My Night At Maud's,...
- 8/18/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
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