Jacques Rivette has passed away at the age of 87. "Rivette, who emerged in the 1950s, along with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, as one of the primary filmmakers of the French New Wave, is the most underappreciated (and under-screened) of this legendary group," wrote Saul Austerlitz in his 2003 entry into the Senses of Cinema Great Directors Database. "Rivette’s deliberately challenging, super-size films defy easy assimilation, and demand a level of attention unusual even to his compatriots’ works. In addition to being considered difficult, however, Rivette’s body of work is also, arguably, the richest of the New Wave era, possessing an intellectual inquiry and humanity unmatched in the French cinema of his time." » - David Hudson...
- 1/29/2016
- Keyframe
Jacques Rivette has passed away at the age of 87. "Rivette, who emerged in the 1950s, along with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, as one of the primary filmmakers of the French New Wave, is the most underappreciated (and under-screened) of this legendary group," wrote Saul Austerlitz in his 2003 entry into the Senses of Cinema Great Directors Database. "Rivette’s deliberately challenging, super-size films defy easy assimilation, and demand a level of attention unusual even to his compatriots’ works. In addition to being considered difficult, however, Rivette’s body of work is also, arguably, the richest of the New Wave era, possessing an intellectual inquiry and humanity unmatched in the French cinema of his time." » - David Hudson...
- 1/29/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's overview of new issues of film magazines and journals, we point to tributes to the late Chantal Akerman from Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema and, in frieze, James Benning, Jem Cohen, Tacita Dean, Chris Dercon, Joanna Hogg, Sharon Lockhart and more. Among the dossiers in several issues: Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives and Bruce Baillie and Paul Sharits. Quentin Tarantino is ushered into Senses' Great Directors Database. Adrian Martin writes about Maurice Pialat and Manny Farber. Kent Jones discusses "The Films in My Life" and his own documentary, Hitchcock/Truffaut. And much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/22/2015
- Keyframe
In today's overview of new issues of film magazines and journals, we point to tributes to the late Chantal Akerman from Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema and, in frieze, James Benning, Jem Cohen, Tacita Dean, Chris Dercon, Joanna Hogg, Sharon Lockhart and more. Among the dossiers in several issues: Pier Paolo Pasolini, William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives and Bruce Baillie and Paul Sharits. Quentin Tarantino is ushered into Senses' Great Directors Database. Adrian Martin writes about Maurice Pialat and Manny Farber. Kent Jones discusses "The Films in My Life" and his own documentary, Hitchcock/Truffaut. And much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/22/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
This Week’s Absolute Must Read is an absolute for sad reasons: David Hudson compiles the best tribute to famed film curator Amos Vogel, who passed away last week. Actually, “curator” probably isn’t the best word to summarize all that Vogel did in his life in promoting indie, avant-garde, experimental and underground film, but no word has been invented to how important his contributions to film curation, programming and scholarship have been.After actress Elizabeth Banks dissed the ’90s underground film Surrender Dorothy in which she starred, the movie’s director, Kevin Dinovis, politely chided her for not only insulting him, but the entire indie film scene. We here at Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film don’t have to be so polite. To quote the late, great Divine, we find Banks guilty of assholism. If you want to see Surrender Dorothy, which won Best Narrative Feature at the 1998 Chicago Underground Film Festival,...
- 4/29/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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