Quotability is rarely used as a critical yardstick, but sometimes the shoe just fits. Films like The Big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, or Office Space achieved their hallowed fandom aura so easily because of the way they become instantly portable. “Ah, ah, I almost forgot…I’m also going to need you to go ahead and come […]
Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax screens at the St. Louis International Film Festival 2009
Jerichow at the St. Louis International Film Festival 2009.
One of the interesting routines I have enjoyed this year is tracking the distribution progress of Dmitri Trakovsky’s documentary Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky via his twitter feed. There have been some reviews and discussions of the documentary cataloged at a website for the film, and the Claremont Courier ran a brief and informative piece on the […]
Munyurangabo at the St Louis International Film Festical 2009.
Lake Tahoe at the St. Louis International Film Festival 2009.
Here is a handy rundown of the Bright Lights 66. It includes a review of the great new Farber collection (Filmwell review still forthcoming, it is as long as it is dense). A nifty essay on the problem of filming Gatsby (with or without Vincent Chase). An interview with Jonas Mekas. There is also a […]
I ran across this spectacular review of Sorrentino’s recent Il divo, which much like Sokurov’s The Sun is a visually arresting psychological brief of a controversial political figure. I guess that is putting it too mildly, isn’t it. There is a formal anarchy to Il divo that outstrips Tarantino similar use of the same set […]
Unspoken Cinema has posted a nice new review of Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies full of great sentences like: From what can be seen as an adversarial position, Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) chillingly exposes the other side of the loudspeaker – a film that is to the ordinary documentary what Goodfellas (1990) is to The Godfather […]