"My favorite film of the last two years, Hong Sang-soo's Bam gua nat (Night and Day), is getting a one-week run at Anthology Film Archives, starting this Friday," announces Dan Sallitt, and for more raves (well, mostly), you can turn to Richard Brody (New Yorker), Scott Foundas (Voice), Andrew Schenker (L) and Keith Uhlich (Time Out New York). Update, 10/23: More from Jeannette Catsoulis (New York Times), Michael Joshua Rowin (Reverse Shot) and S James Snyder (Artforum).
This is just one of several extraordinary runs going on in NYC over the next while, starting this evening at Film Forum, where, with what the Voice's J Hoberman calls the "cine-essay-cum-illustrated-lecture Rembrandt's J'accuse," Peter Greenaway "uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy - which is to say, he successfully turns The Night Watch into a Peter Greenaway film." More from Manohla Dargis (New York Times), David Fear (Tony), Nicolas Rapold...
This is just one of several extraordinary runs going on in NYC over the next while, starting this evening at Film Forum, where, with what the Voice's J Hoberman calls the "cine-essay-cum-illustrated-lecture Rembrandt's J'accuse," Peter Greenaway "uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy - which is to say, he successfully turns The Night Watch into a Peter Greenaway film." More from Manohla Dargis (New York Times), David Fear (Tony), Nicolas Rapold...
- 10/23/2009
- MUBI
As a big fan of cinema as pure image-sound experience, I'm thrilled that visual master Peter Greenaway squandered a puff-piece opportunity with New York Magazine to harsh on our ever-diminishing ability to appreciate films this way. He's just released a documentary called Rembrandt's J'Accuse. It's an analysis of Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch and tasks itself with locating and explaining the painting's hidden meanings, calling attention to our own visual illiteracy in the process. Something tells me that Greenaway's "essay-like" approach to documentary will be more visually lyrical than the wildest dream sequences of garden variety directors. Also great to...
- 10/22/2009
- by Shannon Coulter
- Boombox Serenade
DVD Playhouse—September 2009
By
Allen Gardner
The Human Condition (Criterion) Masaki Kobayashi’s epic (574 minutes) adaptation of Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel was originally made and released as three separate films (1959-61), and is rightfully regarded as a landmark of Japanese cinema. Candide-like story of naïve, good-hearted Kaiji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor, to Imperial Army solider, to Soviet Pow, and Kaiji’s struggle to maintain his humanity throughout. Unfolds with the mastery of a great novel, beautifully-shot, and a stunning example of cinematic mastery on the part of its makers. Four-disc set bonuses include: Interview with Kobayashi; Interview with Nakadai; Featurette; Trailer; Essay by critic Philip Kemp. Widescreen. Dolby 3.0 surround.
State Of Play (Universal) Russell Crowe stars as a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter investigating the murder of an aide to a rising congressional star (Ben Affleck), who also happens to be an old friend.
By
Allen Gardner
The Human Condition (Criterion) Masaki Kobayashi’s epic (574 minutes) adaptation of Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel was originally made and released as three separate films (1959-61), and is rightfully regarded as a landmark of Japanese cinema. Candide-like story of naïve, good-hearted Kaiji (Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai) from labor camp supervisor, to Imperial Army solider, to Soviet Pow, and Kaiji’s struggle to maintain his humanity throughout. Unfolds with the mastery of a great novel, beautifully-shot, and a stunning example of cinematic mastery on the part of its makers. Four-disc set bonuses include: Interview with Kobayashi; Interview with Nakadai; Featurette; Trailer; Essay by critic Philip Kemp. Widescreen. Dolby 3.0 surround.
State Of Play (Universal) Russell Crowe stars as a veteran Washington D.C. political reporter investigating the murder of an aide to a rising congressional star (Ben Affleck), who also happens to be an old friend.
- 9/26/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
A biopic is a tricky thing to master. Too often it becomes difficult to choose a proper focus, with filmmakers alternately making the mistake of either casting their net too wide or not wide enough. It's impossible to encompass the life of a person -- especially one who has accomplished a lot -- in a single feature-length film. Yet at the same time, it seems wrong and unjust to attempt to reduce a human being to a montage of episodic clips.
With that out of the way, it seems fair to say that Nightwatching actually handles this predicament rather deftly. A fictionalized depiction of a conspiracy theory being (perhaps) unwittingly immortalized in Rembrandt's most famous painting, "The Night Watch," the film succeeds in that it largely focuses on a lesser-known part of a well-known person's life, and it doesn't attempt to tell us too much, but only just enough.
Rembrandt (Martin Freeman) is a young,...
With that out of the way, it seems fair to say that Nightwatching actually handles this predicament rather deftly. A fictionalized depiction of a conspiracy theory being (perhaps) unwittingly immortalized in Rembrandt's most famous painting, "The Night Watch," the film succeeds in that it largely focuses on a lesser-known part of a well-known person's life, and it doesn't attempt to tell us too much, but only just enough.
Rembrandt (Martin Freeman) is a young,...
- 9/25/2009
- by Inna Mkrtycheva
- JustPressPlay.net
It's been hard to forgive Peter Greenaway, above all, for the howling miscreant-ism of "8 1/2 Women" (1999). His particularized brand of hyper-structural art cinema -- and Greenaway's movies have always been stylistically distinctly his, which is no mean achievement -- had already been in self-involved decline ("The Pillow Book," etc.), but "8 1/2 Women" was a cliff edge, a film beyond which any globally respected career would have to take a good stoning, creep shamefacedly into a crawlspace somewhere and work on a sensibility overhaul while hoping we'd soon forget all about it. Greenaway has more or less hibernated since -- a short here or there, and beginning in 2003 he churned out four connected features known as "The Tulse Luper Suitcases" that saw only festival screens, and went unreleased everywhere.
I still appreciate Greenaway, even if his movies are sometimes unbearable -- his obviously honest compulsion to construct intricate Erector Set narrative contraptions, and...
I still appreciate Greenaway, even if his movies are sometimes unbearable -- his obviously honest compulsion to construct intricate Erector Set narrative contraptions, and...
- 9/15/2009
- by Michael Atkinson
- ifc.com
- The Film Forum (209 W Houston St, New York, NY) have released their Fall schedule packed with foreign film and documentary film which includes offerings from the master filmmaker core of Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum), Alexander Sokurov (The Sun) and Peter Greenaway (Rembrandt's J'accuse). The September to December slate also includes documentary films that preemed at Sundance (The Yes Men Fix the World) and Tribeca (American Casino). Film Forum Premieres: September – December 2009 September 2 -- 15 American Casino Directed by Leslie Cockburn Produced by Leslie Cockburn & Andrew Cockburn USA 2009 89 Mins. Investigative reporters Leslie and Andrew Cockburn have spent nearly 30 years uncovering major stories (for PBS, CBS Reports, 60 Minutes, et alia), but with American Casino they take on the biggest economic crisis of our lifetime: the subprime mortgage meltdown that has caused more than a million Americans to lose their homes. The Cockburns interview Wall Street wizards who are as nervous about
- 7/17/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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