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 8 mystery films.
Secrets, lies, clues and questionable motives: follow these films as they insist on (or resist) throwing light on the dark corners of human nature.
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Confidentially Yours, the French Crime film by François Truffaut
When a real estate agent is framed for the murders of his wife and her lover, it is up to his faithful secretary to solve the mystery.
The Element of Crime, the Danish Crime film by Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier’s stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls.
Secrets, lies, clues and questionable motives: follow these films as they insist on (or resist) throwing light on the dark corners of human nature.
Don’t have a Fandor subscription? They offer a free trial membership.
Confidentially Yours, the French Crime film by François Truffaut
When a real estate agent is framed for the murders of his wife and her lover, it is up to his faithful secretary to solve the mystery.
The Element of Crime, the Danish Crime film by Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier’s stunning debut film is the story of Fisher, an exiled ex-cop who returns to his old beat to catch a serial killer with a taste for young girls.
- 12/8/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Montgomery Clift | Once Upon A Time In Japan | No & Gael García Bernal | Jane Birkin's Songs Of Serge
Montgomery Clift, London
Despite being one of the most handsome and talented actors ever to grace the screen, Clift is forever associated with tragedy. Partly because of his torment over his sexuality, partly because of the car crash in 1956 that sent his life into a downward spiral, and partly because he didn't make nearly enough movies. In the ones he did, Clift often stole the show, playing anguished, un-macho outsiders in Red River, I Confess, From Here To Eternity and A Place In The Sun. The latter, one of several collaborations with his friend Elizabeth Taylor, goes on extended release as part of this retrospective, which also includes the best of his post-crash movies.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Fri to 14 Feb
Once Upon A Time In Japan, on tour
Japan has made some...
Montgomery Clift, London
Despite being one of the most handsome and talented actors ever to grace the screen, Clift is forever associated with tragedy. Partly because of his torment over his sexuality, partly because of the car crash in 1956 that sent his life into a downward spiral, and partly because he didn't make nearly enough movies. In the ones he did, Clift often stole the show, playing anguished, un-macho outsiders in Red River, I Confess, From Here To Eternity and A Place In The Sun. The latter, one of several collaborations with his friend Elizabeth Taylor, goes on extended release as part of this retrospective, which also includes the best of his post-crash movies.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Fri to 14 Feb
Once Upon A Time In Japan, on tour
Japan has made some...
- 1/26/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
I remember watching the 1961 black and white version of Zero Focus a long time ago thinking, 'this needs an update.' The Hitchcockian premise was very intriguing: a man disappears during his business trip leaving his young wife distressed and confused. She travels to the snow country up north to find the missing husband and digs up some ugly past while dead bodies turning up around her. But it was visually bland and lacked any kind of suspense. So it was a nice surprise to see the remake on this year's Japan Cuts line-up.
The film is an epic. It begins with stock footage of the destroyed post-war Japan, then seamlessly moves into the economic-boom era of the 50s with impeccable periodic detail. Director Isshin Inudo here crafted a sumptuous picture of the bygone era Japan seldom seen in contemporary films.
The year is 1957. A naïve, young wife Teiko (Ryoko Hirosue...
The film is an epic. It begins with stock footage of the destroyed post-war Japan, then seamlessly moves into the economic-boom era of the 50s with impeccable periodic detail. Director Isshin Inudo here crafted a sumptuous picture of the bygone era Japan seldom seen in contemporary films.
The year is 1957. A naïve, young wife Teiko (Ryoko Hirosue...
- 7/11/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Japan Society has posted the full list of films to be screened as part of their Japan Cuts Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema which will take place in NYC from July 1-16, 2010.
Here’s the list. The films marked with an asterisk will be co-presented with the 2010 New York Asian Film Festival.
About Her Brother (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Yoji Yamada)
Accidental Kidnapper (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Hideo Sakaki)
Alien vs. Ninja* (2010, World Premiere, Dir. Seiji Chiba)
Bare Essence of Life, aka Ultra Miracle Love Story (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Satoko Yokohama)
The Blood of Rebirth* (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Toshiaki Toyoda)
Boys on the Run* (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Daisuke Miura)
Confessions* (2010, U.S. Premiere, Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)
Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (2004, New York Premiere, Dir. Isao Yukisada)
Dear Doctor* (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Miwa Nishikawa)
Electric Button, aka Moon & Cherry (2004, U.S. Premiere,...
Here’s the list. The films marked with an asterisk will be co-presented with the 2010 New York Asian Film Festival.
About Her Brother (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Yoji Yamada)
Accidental Kidnapper (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Hideo Sakaki)
Alien vs. Ninja* (2010, World Premiere, Dir. Seiji Chiba)
Bare Essence of Life, aka Ultra Miracle Love Story (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Satoko Yokohama)
The Blood of Rebirth* (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Toshiaki Toyoda)
Boys on the Run* (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Daisuke Miura)
Confessions* (2010, U.S. Premiere, Dir. Tetsuya Nakashima)
Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World (2004, New York Premiere, Dir. Isao Yukisada)
Dear Doctor* (2009, New York Premiere, Dir. Miwa Nishikawa)
Electric Button, aka Moon & Cherry (2004, U.S. Premiere,...
- 5/28/2010
- Nippon Cinema
This year Subway Cinema is announcing the lineup for the 2010 New York Asian Film Festival split up by country of origin; and conveniently for us, Japan is first up. The list includes two world premieres, two international premieres, five North American premieres, and an impressive list of guests.
The festival will be held at Lincoln Center from June 25 - July 8 with some co-presented screenings at Japan Society from July 1 - 4.
A few of the films listed are being presented with the overlapping Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 1 - July 16) which will feature 20 Japanese titles including Isshin Inudo’s “Zero Focus” remake.
Here’s the list of Japanese movies at Nyaff:
8000 Miles (2009, North American Premiere, Dir. Yu Irie in attendance)
8000 Miles 2: Girl Rappers (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Yu Irie in attendance)
Alien vs. Ninja (2010, World Premiere, Dir. Seiji Chiba, actor Masanori Mimoto in attendence)
Annyong Yumika (2009, North American Premiere,...
The festival will be held at Lincoln Center from June 25 - July 8 with some co-presented screenings at Japan Society from July 1 - 4.
A few of the films listed are being presented with the overlapping Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 1 - July 16) which will feature 20 Japanese titles including Isshin Inudo’s “Zero Focus” remake.
Here’s the list of Japanese movies at Nyaff:
8000 Miles (2009, North American Premiere, Dir. Yu Irie in attendance)
8000 Miles 2: Girl Rappers (2010, North American Premiere, Dir. Yu Irie in attendance)
Alien vs. Ninja (2010, World Premiere, Dir. Seiji Chiba, actor Masanori Mimoto in attendence)
Annyong Yumika (2009, North American Premiere,...
- 5/20/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Partial list of nominees & winners Picture of the Year: Villon’s Wife (Kichitaro Negishi) * The Unbroken (Setsuro Wakamatsu) Zero Focus (Isshin Inudo) The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones (Daisaku Kimura) Dear Doctor (Miwa Nishikawa) Outstanding Foreign Language Film * Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood) Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle) The Changeling (Clint Eastwood) The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky) Red Cliff – Part 2 (John Woo) Animation of the Year Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Khara) * Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda) Doraemon (Shigeo Koshi) Yona Yona Penguin (Rintaro) [...]...
- 3/18/2010
- by Irene Young
- Alt Film Guide
Ken Watanabe in The Sun That Doesn’t Set (Shizumanu Taiyo) Setsurô Wakamatsu’s The Sun That Doesn’t Set, inspired by the 1985 airplane crash that killed 520 people in what remains Japan’s worst airline disaster, is one of five films in the running for the Japanese Academy’s Best Picture award. (See partial list of nominees below.) The film’s star, Ken Watanabe, received a best actor nomination. The other four Best Picture nominees are: Isshin Inudou’s Zero Focus, a murder mystery set in postwar Japan Daisaku Kimura’s Mt. Tsurugidake, about a group of men who set out to climb the unconquered peak in the early 1900s Miwa Nishikawa’s Dear Doctor, in which a village doctor (best actor nominee Tsurube Shofukutei) is exposed as a con artist [...]...
- 12/24/2009
- by Irene Young
- Alt Film Guide
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