Features
Friday, August 26 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 8: Jean Renoir to Douglas Sirk
From Jean Renior through Douglas Sirk, there may be some choices that raise an eyebrow. While each of the directors we look at today might not be on every cinephile's list of great directors, they absolutely merit inclusion for their distinct visions and dedication to their craft, some despite their questionable personal lives and politics.
Tuesday, February 1 2011
Missed Movies of 2010, Part 2: Life During Wartime to Wild Grass
In our second half of 2010's overlooked offerings, we champion West Virginia 'white' trash, a mafia musical, the goriest (and goofiest) spring break ever, a trip to a town called Panic, and one unfairly dismissed, should have been an Oscar nominee mainstream hit from Ben Affleck.
Reviews
Friday, August 6 2010
'Wild Grass' Is Just Weird
It seems no woman can resist Georges, no matter how dangerous she believes him to be.
Thursday, June 18 2009
Last Year at Marienbad
Resnais speaks of how this film is like a Rorschach test; what it means depends on who watches it.
Friday, April 25 2008
Last Year at Marienbad
This is the cinematic equivalent of whale bone-enforced corset, silk from the colonies, and the kind of workmanship only extreme class disparity can provide.
Monday, August 11 2003
Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) (1955)
It is darkly ambivalent about the veracity of our memories (both individually and collectively).
Monday, July 21 2003
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)
In Hiroshima Mon Amour, Resnais and his screenwriter, French novelist Marguerite Duras, show their debts to the Modernists.
Blogs
Wednesday, May 23 2012
Cannes 2012: Day 6 - 'You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet' + 'Barbara'
Day six brings perhaps the final film from French legend Alain Resnais, whose You Ain’t See Nothin’ Yet has a shot at the big prize. Meanwhile New German Cinema movement director Christian Petzold returns with Barbara.
Friday, May 18 2012
Cannes 2012: Day 2 - 'Rust & Bone' + 'Mekong Hotel' + 'Paradise: Love'
Cannes coverage continues with reviews of Jacques Audiard hotly tipped Rust & Bone, a short film from Thailand’s sensational Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and the latest from severe Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidel.
Friday, August 13 2010
'Wild Grass' Gets Lost in the Weeds
It's like watching David Lynch's understudy try to forge a reasonable whodunit out of some pretty Parisian locations. Even worse, Resnais is providing no answers and claiming no responsibility for his incompleteness.
