In this 25 minute radio interview, the legendary Liv Ullmann discusses her relationship with Ingmar Bergman, the distinction between storytelling and lies, Kierkegaard, and why she loves The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
In this recently restored 1965 documentary, the Rolling Stones have established their raw sexual power, just before the more explicit dissolution has kicked in.
In this first dispatch from the New York Film Festival, we revisit Chick Webb’s legacy in a flawed but engaging documentary.
Aki Kaurismäki’s latest film tinkers with the idea that our fantasies are more rooted in our heart, existing before we can sculpt them into visual submission.
This spellbinding 1981 adaptation of a Paul Bowles story was nearly lost, but is now playing as part of the New York Film Festival.
A consideration of Julia Loktev’s adaptation of the Tom Bissell story, “Expensive Trips Nowhere,” which includes press conference audio, comparison with Paul Bowles, and an email exchange with Bissell.
Approximately 72% of this 1939 film involves marching. I am not quite certain that this makes for compelling narrative.
This highly enjoyable 1960 movie about a botched blackmail suggests Japan’s answer to a scrappy film noir bankrolled by RKO.
In our first dispatch from the New York Film Festival, we ask whether a Nikkatsu pink film measure up to its alleged intellectual ambitions.
In this frank 25 minute radio interview, director Joe Dante discusses The Hole, the problems with creative control, 3-D, Mario Bava, the Hollywood system, and surviving as an independent director.
It is a ubiquitous truth that distinctive art often polarizes. But Mike Leigh’s films often cause some of the more catholic critics to reveal their unadventurous sensibilities.
It seems inconceivable that Clint Eastwood would direct a film that uses the facile falsehood of psychic ability to drive its story, and that Peter Morgan (Peter Morgan! The man behind Frost/Nixon!) would write the screenplay.
If you’re making a film featuring an older woman with a middle-aged narcissistic daughter who enjoys snorting up coke in her mother’s bathroom, then a little perspective is in order.
A documentary that concerns itself with the outskirts of life has the obligation to make more concrete connections to its privileged audience.
[This is the sixth in a series of dispatches relating to the 2010 New York Film Festival.] “It’s fundamentally the same application for myself. It…
One of David Fincher’s best movies also includes some of the sharpest material that Aaron Sorkin has ever written for film or television. It’s a highly entertaining movie possessed of stones.
[This is the third in a series of dispatches relating to the 2010 New York Film Festival.] It’s often a wise move to distrust any…
[This is the second in a series of dispatches relating to the 2010 New York Film Festival.] “The film we just saw,” muttered a nameless…
At the Nuremberg press conference, Ernest Michel describes being the first Holocaust survivor to cover the war trials.
A last-minute deadline for a very fun and entirely unanticipated eleventh hour project has cropped up. This development means a break in New York Film…
[This is the fourth in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] The above video was taken from an October…
[This is the third in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] At the Life During Wartime press conference, I…
[This is the second in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] There once was a time in which I…
[This is the first in a series of posts relating to the 2009 New York Film Festival.] (This post will be updated. Review of The…
Filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #244. Kurosawa is most recently the co-writer and director of Tokyo Sonata, a film that played…
Okay, folks, after about seventeen or so films (and manifold shorts) in two weeks, I’m officially finished with the New York Film Festival. I have…
[This is the thirteenth part in an open series of reports from the New York Film Festival.] About a week ago, fearing that all of…
[This is the twelfth part in an open series of reports from the New York Film Festival.] Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel — sadly one of…
Some brief housekeeping between these longass NYFF reports: I had intended to write a report on Saturday afternoon’s panel, which I believe was called “Holy…
Jerzy Skolimowski appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #239. Skolimowski is a filmmaker, and is most recently the director of Four Nights with Anna, which…
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