Close-Up Film Centre has acquired and revived Vertigo Magazine, one of the most important film-related publications in the UK. Launched in 1993, Vertigo went silent two years ago, but Issue 30 makes for one hell of a comeback. The title: "Godard Is" — and, as Damien Sanville writes in the opening editorial, "His oeuvre is, just as color is…. Godard is one if not the most influential filmmaker to explore the role of the moving image within aesthetics, politics and history. His work represents in its most emblematic way the crossover between the poetical and the historical, cinema and the arts, which will also be at the core of our publication. A 'double bind,' Guattari's crayfish."
A quick run-through: Frieda Grafe on Vivre sa vie (1962); David Brancaleone at considerable length on the "Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art" and Adrian Martin on the 2006 exhibition Voyage(s) en utopie,...
A quick run-through: Frieda Grafe on Vivre sa vie (1962); David Brancaleone at considerable length on the "Interventions of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker into Contemporary Visual Art" and Adrian Martin on the 2006 exhibition Voyage(s) en utopie,...
- 4/12/2012
- MUBI
"Dream death-match to be sure, but I just noticed Koji Wakamatsu is actually making a new film based on Mishima's life," wrote Sanjuro six months ago, sparking a discussion in the Forum. 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi, with Arata taking the lead and Terajima Shinobu (Caterpillar) playing Mishima's wife, "focuses on the events of November 25, 1970, when Mishima entered the Tokyo headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces along with four members of his private militia, the Tatenokai," wrote Nicholas Vroman in May at Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow. "Seizing control of the commandant's office, Mishima delivered a rambling speech from the balcony hoping to inspire a coup d'etat. He then returned to the office and committed suicide." He also notes that Wakamatsu's been blogging throughout the production. And today, Wildgrounds has posted the first trailer (above).
"Eco Sci-Fi" is the theme of the October issue of Electric Sheep, featuring David Cairns...
"Eco Sci-Fi" is the theme of the October issue of Electric Sheep, featuring David Cairns...
- 10/24/2011
- MUBI
So, what’s it really like to make a go of it on the festival circuit, especially when you’re a much beloved cult filmmaking icon? The Washington City Paper runs a timeline of Jeff Krulik’s Heavy Metal Picnic film festival odyssey of 2011 — and it’s not a rosy journey. Much of the article is framed by a series of update emails that Krulik sends to his supporters, a group of people of which I’m a member. And those emails, thanks to Krulik’s incredible directness, frequently include some of the most hilarious exchanges ever. (The great portrait of Krulik above by Darrow Montgomery is from the article.)The Count Gore De Vol documentary Every Other Day Is Halloween is still racking up great reviews, this time from the Spooky Vegan. If you haven’t had the chance to enjoy this gem yourself, this is the perfect time of year to do so.
- 10/23/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
There’s very little in this world that gets me more excited than when an underground film festival adopts WordPress as a Cms for their website. Even more exciting is when the world’s oldest underground fest does it, as the Chicago Underground Film Festival has recently. Awesome looking site, guys! Gazelluloid is an experimental cinema blog that’s been around almost a year, but I just discovered it. The site posts up tons of great short films with no commentary. You should go bookmark it. There’s another brand new experimental film blog out there, too: cori e comete. However, you have to read Italian to get the full effect. The blog name translates to “choruses and comets.” There’s a new experimental and avant-garde screening space in North America: CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre in Montreal. Lots of great screenings are scheduled already. CineSpace is being run by Daïchi Saïto and Malena Szlam.
- 2/6/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
A quiet Monday in August is a fine day to catch up with the current issue of Electric Sheep, whose theme is "Propaganda" and features Peter Momtchiloff on Alexander Dovzhenko's Earth (1930; image above), Eleanor McKeown on Dziga Vertov's A Sixth Part of the World (1926), Robert Barry, briefly, on the soundtrack of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935) and Sarah Cronin on the "virtual absence of politics and/or propaganda" in current American war movies.
- 8/16/2010
- MUBI
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