Bleak Street is "the latest film from the great Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein," announces Josef Braun. "Based on a true story about two midget wrestlers accidentally murdered by two middle-aged sex workers in a dingy Mexico City love hotel, the film is one of Ripstein’s finest." José Teodoro in Cinema Scope: "More than any living director, Ripstein has taken up the mantle of his friend and early mentor Luis Buñuel." Notebook editor Daniel Kasman "found it enthralling in its immersion, with twisted touches, into something like a far more grim version of The Lower Depths or The Crime of M. Lange." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/28/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Bleak Street is "the latest film from the great Mexican auteur Arturo Ripstein," announces Josef Braun. "Based on a true story about two midget wrestlers accidentally murdered by two middle-aged sex workers in a dingy Mexico City love hotel, the film is one of Ripstein’s finest." José Teodoro in Cinema Scope: "More than any living director, Ripstein has taken up the mantle of his friend and early mentor Luis Buñuel." Notebook editor Daniel Kasman "found it enthralling in its immersion, with twisted touches, into something like a far more grim version of The Lower Depths or The Crime of M. Lange." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/28/2015
- Keyframe
"Federico Veiroj’s A Useful Life (2010)—in which a middle-aged programmer finds himself out of a career after his Montevideo cinematheque fades to black—considered a post-cinema existence and decided it was just fine," begins José Teodoro, writing for Cinema Scope. "Yet the film’s irreverence with regards to its own medium was undercut by a formal elegance and sense of play that made cinema feel, in fact, very much alive. The Uruguayan director’s new film," The Apostate, "set in Madrid, conveys a similar ambivalence toward another fallen cultural institution: the Catholic Church." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/17/2015
- Keyframe
"Federico Veiroj’s A Useful Life (2010)—in which a middle-aged programmer finds himself out of a career after his Montevideo cinematheque fades to black—considered a post-cinema existence and decided it was just fine," begins José Teodoro, writing for Cinema Scope. "Yet the film’s irreverence with regards to its own medium was undercut by a formal elegance and sense of play that made cinema feel, in fact, very much alive. The Uruguayan director’s new film," The Apostate, "set in Madrid, conveys a similar ambivalence toward another fallen cultural institution: the Catholic Church." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/17/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Atom Egoyan's Remember "does little to earn the poignancy of Christopher Plummer’s stricken performance," argues Variety's Guy Lodge, and many agree. The film, competing in Venice and screening in Toronto, does have its champion's, among them, José Teodoro, writing for Cinema Scope: "There are many reasons to regard Remember as a kind of Hitchcockian black comedy, replete with Holocaust MacGuffin." At the Playlist, Jessica Kiang argues that what could have been an "evocative story of [a] dissolving mind" becomes "a standard, and fairly schlocky revenge thriller." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Atom Egoyan's Remember "does little to earn the poignancy of Christopher Plummer’s stricken performance," argues Variety's Guy Lodge, and many agree. The film, competing in Venice and screening in Toronto, does have its champion's, among them, José Teodoro, writing for Cinema Scope: "There are many reasons to regard Remember as a kind of Hitchcockian black comedy, replete with Holocaust MacGuffin." At the Playlist, Jessica Kiang argues that what could have been an "evocative story of [a] dissolving mind" becomes "a standard, and fairly schlocky revenge thriller." We've got more reviews and the trailer. » - David Hudson...
- 9/12/2015
- Keyframe
"Terra Incognita: 22 Unknown Pleasures from Around the World." That's the title that drew my first click of all the selections from the new issue of Film Comment now up on the site, plus the "Online Exclusives," of which this is one: a list expanded from the 15 in the print edition, with recommendations from the likes of Kent Jones, Olaf Möller, Shigehiko Hasumi, Thom Andersen and more. More than a few of the films written up here are new to me.
We already know the results of year-end poll of critics, of course, but here are Godfrey Cheshire on Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, Nicholas Rapold on Nadav Lapid's Policeman, Gianfranco Rosi's El Sicario, Room 164 and Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, José Teodoro on Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala, Jesse P Finnegan on Tank.tv, Graham Fuller on Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Margaret Barton-Fumo's interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky,...
We already know the results of year-end poll of critics, of course, but here are Godfrey Cheshire on Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, Nicholas Rapold on Nadav Lapid's Policeman, Gianfranco Rosi's El Sicario, Room 164 and Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, José Teodoro on Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala, Jesse P Finnegan on Tank.tv, Graham Fuller on Phyllida Lloyd's The Iron Lady, Margaret Barton-Fumo's interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky,...
- 1/10/2012
- MUBI
It’s been another fantastic year for Canadian cinema and there is a good chance a few films will crack our staff’s best of 2011 list (which we will be posting sometime between Christmas and New Years). Until than, you can also check out Tiff’s selections of the top 10 best features and top 10 best short films of 2011, as determined by a panel of industry professionals, during tonight’s 11th annual Canada’s Top Ten announcement.
Here is the press release:
Established in 2001, Canada’s Top Ten celebrates excellence in Canadian cinema and raises public awareness of Canadian achievements in film. Taking place from January 5 to 15, 2012 at Tiff Bell Lightbox, the programme features a panel discussion and public screenings accompanied by introductions and Q&A sessions with filmmakers. Select films will tour major cities across the country, including Vancouver’s Pacific Cinematheque, Edmonton’s Metro Cinema and Ottawa’s ByTowne Cinema.
Here is the press release:
Established in 2001, Canada’s Top Ten celebrates excellence in Canadian cinema and raises public awareness of Canadian achievements in film. Taking place from January 5 to 15, 2012 at Tiff Bell Lightbox, the programme features a panel discussion and public screenings accompanied by introductions and Q&A sessions with filmmakers. Select films will tour major cities across the country, including Vancouver’s Pacific Cinematheque, Edmonton’s Metro Cinema and Ottawa’s ByTowne Cinema.
- 12/7/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Go ahead and tell us you click it for the articles, but there's no shame in admitting that what you're really after are the book reviews. And the new issue of Scope, the online journal of film and TV studies from the University of Nottingham, has ten new book reviews. Sampling from one of them, Daniele Rugo writes, "As the title provocatively announces Dudley Andrew's book What Cinema Is! engages in the complex task of responding to André Bazin's attempt to identify the core of the cinematographic creation…. Andrew develops an inspired and insightful, if perhaps nostalgic, roadmap delineating how cinema should proceed to remain faithful to its origins (or to Bazin's original ideas)." Let Catherine Grant be your guide to the full issue.
The November/December 2011 issue of Film Comment is up, with nearly as many online exclusives as samples from the print edition: Peter von Bagh's uncut interview with Aki Kaurismäki,...
The November/December 2011 issue of Film Comment is up, with nearly as many online exclusives as samples from the print edition: Peter von Bagh's uncut interview with Aki Kaurismäki,...
- 11/9/2011
- MUBI
"'Even a Man Who is Pure in Heart': Filmic Horror, Popular Religion and the Spectral Underside of History," an essay that appeared in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture in 2005, piqued Michael Guillén's interest in its author, Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, "a native Montrealer and 'monster kid' who teaches courses on genre cinema and monsters in the Humanities department of John Abbott College." So they met up a few weeks ago at the Fantasia International Film Festival and Michael's transcription of their conversation — touching on national identities, filmmakers who straddle the high and the low, "the knowledge systems of ordinary people" and more — is one of the week's best reads, which is why I wanted to point it out right at the top of this little roundup of horror-related items.
The splashiest of these will surely be Jason Zinoman's survey of "a diverse collection of filmmakers about the scariest movie they'd...
The splashiest of these will surely be Jason Zinoman's survey of "a diverse collection of filmmakers about the scariest movie they'd...
- 8/21/2011
- MUBI
"It's easy to enjoy Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas for the campy excess of their acting and story lines," blogs Dave Kehr, "but it's more productive to take them seriously, I think — to see how cleanly and elegantly Matarazzo presents this bezerko material, with a visual style that reminded Jacques Lourcelles of Lang, Dreyer and Mizoguchi, and how perfectly engineered his narratives are, with every outlandish episode incorporated into a serene, symmetrical structure. The new Matarazzo box set (my New York Times review is here) from Criterion's budget Eclipse line contains four of Matarazzo's seven films with the towering star couple Amedeo Nazzari and Yvonne Sanson (literally — Matarazzo's mise-en-scene somehow makes them seem larger, both physically and emotionally, than any of the other characters on the screen), all subtitled in English for the first time: Chains (1949) [image above], Tormento (1950), Nobody's Children (1952) and The White Angel (1955)."
"Though immensely popular, the films were dismissed by...
"Though immensely popular, the films were dismissed by...
- 6/30/2011
- MUBI
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