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9 items from 2012
DVD Review: 'La Grande Illusion' (Blu-ray re-release)
23 April 2012 4:00 AM, PDT | CineVue | See recent CineVue news »
★★★★★ Following its recent StudioCanal digital restoration (in cooperation with La Cinémathèque de Toulouse) and cinematic re-release earlier this month, Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion (1937) makes its way to Blu-ray this week to celebrate its 75th Anniversary. Singling out the magnum opus of a director as masterful as Renoir is an almost impossible task, but most would be hard-pressed to look much further than the French director's sublime anti-war drama (superior even to 1939 classic La Règle du Jeu), so potent that it was banned in both its home market France and Nazi Germany soon after its release.
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La Grande Illusion – review
7 April 2012 4:01 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Back on the big screen in a restored version and released by Studiocanal on DVD and Blu-ray with useful extras, Renoir's 1937 anti-war masterpiece created a new genre, the Pow movie, and with his 1939 La Règle du jeu constitutes a diptych of unparalleled excellence. La Grande Illusion is an optimistic, elegiac tragedy, looking at the great war and the crucial changes it wrought. La Règle du jeu is a pessimistic comedy, anticipating the second world war and the horrors it was to unleash.
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- Philip French
The best damned film list of them all
5 April 2012 6:00 PM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »
Long-suffering readers will have read many times about my dislike of lists, especially lists of the best or worst movies in this or that category. For years they had value only in the minds of feature editors fretting that their movie critics had too much free time. ("For Thursday's food section, can you list the 10 funniest movies about pumpkin pie?") Now their value has shot way up with the use of slide shows, a diabolical time-waster designed to boost a web site's page visits.
In a field with much competition, Number One on my list of Most Shameless Lists has got to be Time mag's recent list of the "Best 140 Tweeters." How did the magazine present this? That's right, on 140 pages of a slideshow. Considering that the list had no meaning at all except as some hapless intern's grindwork, I'd say that was a bold masterstroke. I say so even though I was on it. »
- Roger Ebert
Veneration and Its Discontents
26 March 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Film is dying, but the cinema still lives. To mark the death of one cycle in the age of motion pictures and the beginning of another, Film Forum recently ran a series called "This Is Dcp" to introduce us cinephiles to our inevitable digital future. Dcp, for those of you who’ve been hiding in a mineshaft the last few years, stands for Digital Cinema Package, the new industry standard for digital projection that has just recently replaced 35mm film as the most common means of presenting movies in the United States. On the first day of the series, I went to see a presentation by Grover Crisp—Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Executive Vice President of Asset Management, Film Restoration, and Digital Mastering—that was billed as Dr. Strangelove Side-by-Side but which probably should have been called Dr. Strangelove A-Few-Minutes-of-One-Followed-by-a-Few-Minutes-of-the-Other. Film Forum projected a version of the movie on an »
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28 February 2012 11:30 PM, PST | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
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The New York Latino Film Festival ran a humorous, albeit snarky, advertising campaign a couple of months back. Its posters featured graphical representations comparing the clichés found in two types of narrative cinema: Films, those done for flash, and Movies, those done for cash.
“Watch films, not movies. There is a difference,” runs each posters tagline, the festival’s motto. It’s a refreshing proposal - don’t clutter your mind with special effects laden blockbusters, or overly sentimental romantic comedies; watch a film instead, something that will engage the mind.
But a pretension hides beneath. Films, as they’re described here, are presumed as inherently superior to their movie counterparts.
Take an extreme example, with The Tree of Life representing films, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine encapsulating movies. The former is a majestic, director-driven musing on, amongst other things, »
- flickeringmyth
The Forgotten: Pazuzu Dans Le Metro
22 February 2012 8:47 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
There are multiple Fausts. Ever-multiplying, in fact, as if to outbreed all other fictional characters. The good doctor is unusual: Marlowe and Goethe's plays are both classics, and then there's Mann's novel; at least fifteen operas... In movies, Murnau rules supreme, but I like William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster just as much. René Clair's La beauté du diable is one of his best films, with Michel Simon and Gérard Philipe trading places as tempter and tempted, both utterly charming in their quite distinct ways. Sokurov just made another, well liked here at the Notebook. But for sheer visual rapture, Claude Autant-Lara's 1955 version Marguerite de la nuit takes the Technicolor cake and runs cackling all the way to perdition.
Based on a novel by author/songwriter Pierre Mac Orlan, who also provided source books for Le quai des brumes for Carné and La bandera for Duvivier, »
Catching Up with a Classic: ‘Breathless’ undeniably charming, even for Godardophobes
23 January 2012 8:24 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Throughout January, Sos writers will be biting the bullet and finally sitting down with a film they feel like bad film buffs for not having seen already.
‘À bout de souffle (Breathless)‘
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
François Truffaut (story)
Jean-Luc Godard (screenplay)
1960, France
Because of a long-standing allergy to Jean-Luc Godard which erupted after watching Alphaville in some European cinema class (cognate to a generalised mistrust of French ‘classics’ like La règle du jeu, watching which in that same class made me want to chew off the back of the theatre seat out of boredom), I developed a phobia of cinematic ‘waves’, classics, icons (even though I delight in Audrey Hepburn, I only recently summoned the stomach to watch Breakfast at Tiffany’s after taking a hefty dose of anti-‘iconic’ medication) and so steer clear of ‘cult’ works of most kinds. But I reserve the pedestal of loathing for Jean-Luc Godard, »
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Margin Call – review
7 January 2012 4:07 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The confident cinematic debut of writer-director Jc Chandor, an experienced maker of commercials, Margin Call is the best fictional treatment of the current economic crisis. It's altogether superior to Oliver Stone's hollow Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and in the same class as Charles Ferguson's revealing, piercingly intelligent documentary Inside Job. In fact, it stands up to comparison with the 1992 film of David Mamet's magnificently squalid play Glengarry Glen Ross, which in many ways it resembles, not least in featuring a peerless ensemble cast that includes Kevin Spacey. Glengarry Glen Ross takes place during a couple of days in a seedy provincial branch of a national company where desperate salesmen peddle worthless real estate. Margin Call, also set over some 36 hours or so, initially appears to be located in an altogether more honourable and affluent place, the Manhattan headquarters of a respected investment bank. But the year »
- Philip French
The Best Blu-ray Discs of 2011
2 January 2012 6:07 PM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Best Contemporary Titles
Winner: "The Tree of Life"
Runner-up: "Black Swan"
Love it or hate it, Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" is visually the most luscious film of the year and Blu-ray transfer recreates this in perfect detail. No digital artifacts or enhancements are done here, there is a bit of grain but that's expected with the photography on offer, while the IMAX 65mm sequences are true visual wonders.
Coming in second is my favourite film of last year, Darren Aronofsky's psychological thriller "Black Swan". Here is a challenge of a different sort, a film shot on both 16mm film and off the shelf Dslr video cameras. The result is a deliberately soft and grainy handheld-style image which lends a realistic documentary feel to proceedings and could look terrible if the Blu-ray transfer was handled poorly. Full kudos to Fox for a high quality presentation lacking in »
- Garth Franklin
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9 items from 2012
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