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Daily Briefing. Ömer Lütfi Akad, 1916 - 2011
20 November 2011 6:08 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Ömer Lütfi Akad, a pioneer of Turkish cinema who made over 40 films between 1948 and 1974 (and would carry on directing for television through 1979), died yesterday at the age of 95. Bilge Ebiri has essentially broken the news to the English-speaking world:
Along with Metin Erksan (director of the recently-restored Dry Summer), Akad was probably one of the two senior giants of Turkish cinema during a rather significant time — the period in the 1950s and 60s when the medium was moving away from the canned-theater efforts of early pioneers like Muhsin Ertugrul and starting to tackle more complicated material, against pretty much every odd in the universe. Neither society nor technology had yet caught up to the imaginations of these artists. The equipment was still ancient (the first Turkish film to edit together two separate audio tracks wouldn't come until 1978) and so was the political atmosphere: the country was at the time entering »
Daily Briefing. Long-Form Polemics @ Idiom Film
18 October 2011 2:01 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
"Idiom is an online magazine of artistic and cultural practice." And it now has a new film and electronic art editor. Tom McCormack introduces the new section, promising long-form work focusing on the "avant-garde and the art-house and the gallery" — and YouTube. What's more: "We'd like to get polemical. We want to get argumentative." Idiom Film launches with Michael Joshua Rowin on the collection of essays Optics Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs, Colin Beckett on work by John Smith on DVD, Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon on Rossellini's Rome, Open City and Courtney Fiske on Sophie Fiennes's Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow.
How did I miss this breezy read in the New York Times last week? Elaine May: "The producers of Relatively Speaking (which opens at the Brooks Atkinson on Oct 20) have asked me to conduct an in-depth interview with Ethan Coen and Woody Allen, with whom it »
DVD Review: My Voyage to Italy – Scorsese’s Fascinating Account of Italian Cinema History
25 September 2011 9:34 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
With a filmography boasting some of the most important and entertaining films of the last forty years, from Mean Streets and Taxi Driver to The Departed and Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese could be forgiven for resting on his laurels or at least taking a nice relaxing holiday. Yet this doesn’t seem to be in his make-up. A dedicated cinephile and music lover, the director has been an equally prolific documentarian over the years and the results are rarely less than spellbinding, with his chosen subject matter always deeply personal.
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) and My Voyage to Italy (1999) – which is released on DVD tomorrow – are among the best of these movies, with Marty himself narrating – passionately sharing his thoughts on the films which have inspired him in an accessible, unpretentious style. Aided by his own touching reminiscences as well as »
- Robert Beames
How to Turn a Debut Book Into a Bestseller
11 August 2011 7:00 AM, PDT | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
José Luis R. Cortés/Nypl Alexander Steele, Teju Cole, Kamala Nair, Rebecca Wolff and Amor Towles in Bryant Park
In a disorganized kind of chorus line, authors Teju Cole, Kamala Nair, Rebecca Wolff and Amor Towles strode into the “Reading Room,” a space defined by burgundy and white umbrellas under the London Plane trees of Bryant Park on 42nd Street. Each author was outfitted with a green table, matching high chair and microphone.
The four fiction novelists were there for »
- Alexandra Cheney
What’s All The Hulu-baloo About? This Week In Criterion’s Hulu Channel
3 July 2011 9:55 PM, PDT | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
Didn’t I just write one of these a week ago? Of course I did, because this is your destination for the best coverage of all the new titles Criterion puts up on their Hulu Plus page, and this week is no different. There’s fewer films (unless they decide to throw up another 30 when I least expect it) but in this case, less is more. And the lucky number is 13 this time. With worries of what the future for Hulu is, there are supposed talks that Google is definitely interested, which is interesting. Especially with their roll out of Google+ these past few days. If you like what you see, please sign up via this link. It does wonders for this article. But enough about that, you want to know about the movies. So let’s not make the good people wait.
The one that made my head explode was Godzilla, »
- James McCormick
Fassbinder, De Sica, Roeg and More DVDs
14 June 2011 11:42 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Updated.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the new DVD out from Olive Films, which has also issued Fassbinder's I Only Want You to Love Me (1976). "The relative obscurity of Despair is surprising given its pedigree. It's based on a Vladimir Nabokov novel, adapted by Tom Stoppard, and starring the English actor Dirk Bogarde. Nabokov's story of a Russian émigré, written in the 30s, takes place in Prague. Fassbinder changed the setting to early-30s Berlin, teetering on the abyss of the Third Reich…. Despair is perhaps the most explicit elaboration of one of Fassbinder's recurring themes: the alienation of someone who not only 'stands outside himself,' as Hermann [Bogarde] puts it, but also wants to escape himself and indeed flee the trap of identity altogether. »
This week's new film events
10 June 2011 4:18 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Edinburgh International Film Festival
It should be settling into senior citizenship, but the 65-year-old festival is reinventing itself this year. The programme has been mixed up by a host of guest curators – ranging from Gus Van Sant to Jim Jarmusch, and Mike Skinner to Apichatpong Weerasethakul. And as well as the usual core of new international features and documentaries, there are envelope-pushing new strands and events. Of the conventional features, highlights include Romain Gavras's awaited feature debut Our Day Will Come, a French skinhead tale that looks as confrontational as his music video work (which plays beforehand). David Hare presents his new MI5 thriller Page Eight, led by Bill Nighy (who'll also be giving an onstage interview); Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle buddy up in Irish cop comedy The Guard; and festival regular David McKenzie returns with apocalyptic art sci-fi Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green.
The »
- Steve Rose
Why Shoah still matters
9 June 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Claude Lanzmann's Holocaust documentary, Shoah, was meant to be an 'incarnation of the truth'. His new film responds to a threat to that truth
Claude Lanzmann went to Iran recently. "As you know," the 85-year-old director, a Jewish Frenchman, tells me in his Paris office, "Ahmadinejad doesn't believe there was a Holocaust. The Iranians wanted me to prove to them on television that there was. They wanted to see the corpses."
What did he tell them? The director of the nine-and-a-half hour documentary Shoah (1985) about the mass murder of Jews in Nazi death camps swivels round in his chair and fixes me. "I told them there's not a single corpse in Shoah. The people who arrived at Treblinka, Belzec or Sobibor were killed within two or three hours and their corpses burned. The proof is not the corpses; the proof is the absence of corpses. There were special details »
- Stuart Jeffries
London OpenCity Documentary Film Festival (16th - 19th June)
6 June 2011 6:30 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
10,000 tickets at £5 or less, 140 films, 20 cyclists powering the open air cinema, 10 acclaimed jurors, 6 screens, 5 prizes, outside bar and café, live music, barbeque, farmers market, 4 days. The inaugural Open City London Documentary Festival (Open City) launches 16 - 19 June at University College London venues and the Prince Charles cinema, as a public-minded celebration of the best in documentary filmmaking. London.s largest documentary festival is here! A diverse programme is organized into strands including Obsessions, Crime & Punishment, Science Fictions, World Visions and The City. The festival presents a variety of award winning masterpieces and UK premieres, workshops, live music, open-air cycle powered cinema, a farmer.s market, pig on a spit and much »
- Evrim Ersoy
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Roberto Rossellini’s The Age of the Medici
25 May 2011 12:51 PM, PDT | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
A couple weekends ago, as part of my ongoing Criterion Reflections blogging project, I watched Il Generale Della Rovere, a 1959 film directed by Roberto Rossellini that marked one of the commercial and critical high points of his career, yielding his biggest box office results since his breakthrough Rome Open City and major festival hardware (Venice’s Golden Lion for Best Film that year, among others.) Perfectly in keeping with his restless, artistically ambitious yet self-deprecating character, Rossellini afterwards expressed a fair amount of ambivalence toward that film, despite its indisputable success. It wasn’t too much further along into his career that the great pioneer of Neorealism, after proving that he could crank out a hit movie if he really wanted to, finally turned his back on commercial aspirations, choosing instead to produce films on his own terms that attempted to elevate the consciousness and inform the intellect of his audience, »
- David Blakeslee
Kubrick's Restored 'Clockwork' in Cannes Classics and On Blu-ray
27 April 2011 9:04 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
The Cinema de la Plage where screenings of classic films are held at 9:30 each night; click for a larger look
Photo: Brad Brevet I already mentioned how Warner Home Video would be releasing a *new* Stanley Kubrick Blu-ray collection, this time including high definition versions of Lolita and Barry Lyndon with previously released HD versions of Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Eyes Wide Shut and a new 40th Anniversary Edition of A Clockwork Orange. That set hits Blu-ray on May 31, but Kubrick's now-40-year-old A Clockwork Orange will be hitting the Cannes Croisette a little bit earlier than that.
Another, late night look at the Cinema de la Plage; click for a larger look
Photo: Brad Brevet It had been previously announced, but yesterday the Cannes Film Festival made it official that A Clockwork Orange would be part of the »
- Brad Brevet
Cannes 2011. Classics Lineup
26 April 2011 2:31 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
The Cannes Film Festival's unveiled its Classics program today: "Fourteen films, five documentaries, surprises, a Masterclass (Malcolm McDowell), new or restored prints: The program is based on proposals from national archives, cinematheques, studios, producers and distributors. Rare classics to discover or re-discover, they will be presented in 35mm or high definition digital prints."
The Films
The first round of descriptions comes straight from the Festival.
A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) by Georges Méliès (France, 1902, 16'). "The color version of Georges Méliès most famous film, A Trip to the Moon (1902) is visible again 109 years after its release: having been long considered lost, this version was found in 1993 in Barcelona. In 2010, a full restoration is initiated by Lobster Films, Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Heritage Cinema. The digital tools of today allows them to re-assemble the fragments of 13 375 images from the film and restore them one by one. »
The death of the film trilogy
25 April 2011 8:33 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Some of the finest directors have produced masterful triptychs. But do we really need a fourth Pirates of the Caribbean?
It currently seems the only three that interests Hollywood relates to dimensionality. The reverence once extended to the film trilogy is fast diminishing, and although third instalments are due for Transformers, Ong-Bak, Paranormal Activity, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Men in Black, Madagascar, Batman and Iron Man, only the first two have been announced as series finales.
Indeed, with Scre4m, Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides and Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World soon to be followed by fourth entries in the Austin Powers, Mission: Impossible, Underworld and Bourne franchises, the trilogy could soon go the way of the 2D movie, as the synergy-obsessed suits controlling the multi-media conglomerates now owning the major studios adhere to the maxim that familiarity breeds both content and profit. »
- David Parkinson
Open City London Film Festival Announces Line-Up
22 April 2011 4:55 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Source: FilmShaft - Open City London Film Festival Announces Line-Up
The inaugural and prestigious Open City London Documentary Festival (Open City) launches 16 - 19 June at University College London venues and the Prince Charles cinema, as a public-minded celebration of the best in documentary filmmaking. With a diverse programme centered around Obsessions, Crime & Punishment and The City, the festival presents a variety of award winning masterpieces and UK premieres, training workshops, live music events, as well as open air performances and food stalls.
Pawel Pawlikowski, multi-bafta award winning director and Open City judge:
"It’s great to have a new festival in London bringing together practitioners and a broad public audience. At its best documentary film goes beyond the familiar and the cliché to reveal the mystery, the poetry, the ambiguity beneath."
The festival will open with the internationally acclaimed Position Among The Stars (The Darwin Theatre, Ucl, Thurs 16 June), the »
- Martyn Conterio
David Interviews Criterion Affection Blogger Michele Rosenthal
31 March 2011 8:30 PM, PDT | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
Though real-life experience doesn’t always work out so convincingly, sometimes a cliche like “one good thing leads to another” actually does ring true. At least that was the case back on February 1 of this year, when I was catching up on one of my favorite blogs, Matthew Dessem’s The Criterion Contraption. One of the comments there caught my attention and led me to follow a link that landed me on one of the most unique and creative Criterion-related blogs I’ve found.
Criterion Affection offers a more visual than prosaic take on the various entries in the Criterion Collection, and I was quickly drawn in by the colorful renderings that artist Michele Rosenthal created for each film. Sensing a kindred spirit in her ambition to watch every Criterion release and leave behind some souvenir of the encounter (hers in pictures, mine in words), I just had to know »
- David Blakeslee
The Man With the Italian Tattoo
26 March 2011 6:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Williams and MagnaniJose here, to continue celebrating the centennial of American playwright and icon Tennessee Williams.
Williams grew up watching movies. He was one of the major playwrights who learned his craft, not through Shakespeare and Moliere but through the works of De Mille and Chaplin. This can easily be seen in the way his works lack the naturalism of "the theater" and their reality is more grounded on high drama, film noir and even slapstick. You can almost picture the young Williams sitting inside a dark movie theater, enthralled by the images projected on the screen (makes a case for why some of his characters are usually described as "larger than life" huh?).
During one of his many movie adventures, Tennessee spotted Anna Magnani. I like to assume it was Rome, Open City, but of course am probably wrong.
He became so obsessed with the Italian diva that he »
- Jose
MyStreet Film Initiative Launches
15 March 2011 5:28 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
For any budding filmmakers or documentarians this is a very interesting new initiative launched on 11th March which deserves some coverage. MyStreet is a new, open competition asking filmmakers or just about anybody to make a 90 second to 9 minute short film about the street they live on.
Below is the full press release and link to the site. Interesting stuff, indeed.
MyStreet is a nationwide documentary filmmaking initiative launched by Open City London, open to anyone in the UK to make a short 90 second to 9 minute film about their “street”. It is a new online channel where these films can be viewed, telling the nation’s stories, street by street, creating a panoramic view of Britain. Mystreet is many things: your road, your corridor, your lift, your local pub or shop, your work or even your doorstep.
Whether you were filming the student tuition fee protests on you mobile phone, »
- Martyn Conterio
Open City’s Closing: 20 years, 30 Issues and ‘Life Pressed Into’ The Pages
7 March 2011 8:00 AM, PST | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Courtesy of Thomas Beller Bingham (left) and Beller, circa 1995
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A literary magazine’s relationship to time is a strange thing. A newspaper is pegged to news of the day; a weekly magazine can be dated by the content and style of the ads -– the more cutting edge the product (a computer, a car), the more absurd and enjoyable the ad in hindsight. A glossy magazine has the fashions of the day in the ads and in the photo shoots, »
- Thomas Beller
‘Open City’ Editor Joanna Yas Reflects on the Lit Journal
5 March 2011 5:00 AM, PST | Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal | See recent Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal news »
Open City The last issue of the magazine
Open City is ceasing publishing after 20 years. The literary journal was founded in 1990 by Daniel Pinchbeck and Thomas Beller, and published works by Sam Lipsyte, David Berman, Ed Park and many other notables over its 30-issue run. Joanna Yas became the first full-time employee; a year later, in 1999, publisher and driving force Robert Bingham died and, shortly thereafter, Pinchbeck exited the magazine, leaving Yas and Beller as co-editors. Yas recalled for Speakeasy »
- WSJ Staff
Natalie Portman's Predecessor Ingrid Bergman: Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy's Political Fall-Out
4 March 2011 6:41 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
"Apostle of degradation" Ingrid Bergman and co-star Bing Crosby in Leo McCarey's The Bells St. Mary's Natalie Portman's winning a Best Actress while both pregnant and unmarried has irked Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. But Huckabee's criticism about the "glamorization" of Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy pales in comparison to the furor that greeted the announcement that Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman, then married to dentist Petter Lindström, was pregnant — and the father was Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, internationally renowned for his neo-realist efforts Open City and Paisan, and married at the time to future film costume designer Marcella De Marchis. By the time the scandal erupted, Ingrid Bergman had already won a Best Actress Oscar — for a not very good performance as a woman whose husband (Charles Boyer) tries to drive her nuts in George Cukor's 1944 noirish melodrama Gaslight. Bergman had also been nominated for her Spanish revolutionary »
- Andre Soares
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