2010-04-16 00:33

"The third pairing of Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray finds the duo in the midst of a messy, 3-D oater written by Niven Busch, whose novel The Furies had been adapted into the 1950 fil… Read More

Janet Gaynor At MoMA And Film Forum

2010-04-01 16:34

"For a decade she was one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors, but in the seventy years since she retired from the limelight, Janet Gaynor’s legacy has been overshadowed by th… Read More

No Blade Of Grass (1970)

2010-02-08 16:22

Directed by Hollywood actor-turned-filmmaker Cornel Wilde, and scripted by Wilde and Sean Forestal from John Christopher’s novel, No Blade of Grass is a distopic narrative of an ecolog… Read More

Taken (2008)

2010-02-01 16:14

While the xenophobic anxiety of Americans abroad isn’t a new subject (even Alfred Hitchcock approached the topic in his 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much), it’s difficult… Read More

James Whale At Film Forum

2009-12-10 04:46

A special case needs to be made for James Whale. Though not exactly forgotten—a pair of genre-defining horror masterpieces (Frankenstein and The Invisible Man) and two satires (The Old… Read More

Simply put, Jacques Tati's M. Hulot's Holiday (1953) is one of the most delightful cinematic experiences I have ever encountered, and it is now showing at Film Forum in a restored 35mm print… Read More

Migrating Forms' Half-Inch Half-Life: "Tracy The Outlaw" (1928)

2009-11-14 00:40

This past summer, I was invited to participate in Migrating Forms' Half-Inch Half-Life, self-described as "a semi-intimate, public viewing room showcasing a 43-hour marathon of selections fr… Read More

The Samuel Fuller Collection

2009-11-14 00:30

Samuel Fuller's movies are equal parts street corner and gutter, a combination of two-inch-headline journalistic hullabaloo and pulp poetics. Andrew Sarris called him "an authentic American… Read More

Death In The Garden (1956)

2009-11-06 18:17

A drifter, a prostitute, a priest, a miner, and his deaf-mute daughter walk into a South American jungle. It sounds like the start of a joke, but it happens to be the set-up for Luis Bu&ntil&hell…Read More

Interview With Vagabond, Director Of "Machetero"

2009-10-28 23:59

Machetero, which screens this Thursday, Oct. 29 at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, is a film whose guerrilla production matches both the film's visual aesthet… Read More

Black Rain (1989)

2009-10-22 14:44

It seems grossly obvious to lump adjectives like "haunting" and "harrowing" onto Imamura's narrative about Hiroshima survivors dealing with bodily and psychological strain in the aftermath… Read More

Daniel And Abraham (2009)

2009-10-19 15:37

Typically, when we speak of film as a collaborative art form we mean that the production process involves so many people (be it dozens or hundreds) that, at some level, assigning individual… Read More

Interview With Charles Silver

2009-10-16 20:10

Last month, the Museum of Modern Art embarked on one of its most ambitious and exciting film series in recent years, An Auteurist History of Film. Curated by Charles Silver, the two-year-plu… Read More

Mother (2009)

2009-10-16 13:30

Bong Joon-ho’s films have been characterized by bizarre humor (Barking Dogs Don’t Bite) tinged with dark political commentary (Memories of Murder) in the guise of cross-genre exp… Read More

Marlene (1984)

2009-10-14 20:37

Marlene is not your typical non-fiction celebrity portrait—and really, how could it be when your "star" refuses to appear on-camera? Dietrich herself admits that "Documentary is a thin… Read More

Crossroads Of Youth (1934)

2009-10-07 19:00

Viewing Crossroads of Youth in its intended presentation format, the way Korean audiences would have when it originally premiered in 1934, was like encountering an entirely different art for… Read More

Munyurangabo (2007)

2009-10-07 18:57

I first saw Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo (2007) at New Directors/New Films in 2008, and was struck both by the film's reticent morality as well as by Chung's subtle yet perceptive directio… Read More

The Fall Of The House Of Usher (1928)

2009-10-07 04:13

Literary adaptations for the silent screen pose certain difficulties. Limited to intertitles and images, how then to cinematically “translate” text-based literature onto the scre… Read More

Wild Grass (2009)

2009-10-03 22:40

The ever-playful Resnais continually reinvents his movie throughout the story’s progression (quite literally up until the last frame, with a truly bizarre final shot!) with red herring… Read More

Police, Adjective (2009)

2009-10-02 06:34

One of the great ironies of the detective-centered plot is that, more often than not, it is the observer who is being observed. And not just by other characters in the narrative, but primari… Read More

Daughter Of Darkness (1948) And Burke And Hare (1972)

2009-09-30 19:52

UK-based distributor Salvation Films have just unveiled two new-to-DVD releases on their Redemption USA line: Daughter of Darkness> (1948) and Burke and Hare (1972). While both share a de… Read More

Sweetgrass (2009)

2009-09-29 03:02

Is Sweetgrass even a movie about sheep? Not in the sense that March of the Penguins is about penguins. There’s hardly a frame in Sweetgrass without a specimen of Ovis aries bleating, g… Read More

Private Century (2006-2008)

2009-09-25 04:48

Originally an eight-part miniseries for Czech television, Sikl's cycle recollects the history of Czechoslovakia throughout the twentieth century by using different families' home movies with… Read More

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)

2009-09-24 12:59

Like Russian matryoshka dolls, The Saragossa Manuscript is an incessant parade of narratives-within-narratives-within-narratives (and still more). Minor characters overtake the role of narra… Read More

Paradise (2009)

2009-09-24 12:57

Michael Almereyda’s Paradise begins with a slow tracking shot taken from a moving walkway in an airport. It’s a contradiction of movement and stasis: the camera and its holder ar… Read More

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"The Moonlighter" (1953)