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 […]
13. If Canada is heaven, is North Dakota hell, Vanity Fair, the place of temptation and damnation? Isn’t Fargo in North Dakota? What would Marge Gunderson say about this?
Munyurangabo at the St Louis International Film Festical 2009.
Lake Tahoe at the St. Louis International Film Festival 2009.
Allen Yeh discusses how living as an ethnic Asian in America can make one feel like a perpetual foreigner.
“If people think that makes me weak, or mad, so be it. That is the path I am committed to. To love the sinner, but hate the sins. To assume the best in people, and not the worst. To believe that anyone, no matter how evil, can be redeemed… eventually.”
Wim Wenders’ Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece is finally available in the extravagant Criterion Collection package it deserves.
Over at The New Yorker’s film blog The Front Row, Richard Brody’s audacious observations about (forgive the shorthand) Mormon filmmaker Jared Hess; “Point by point, Manohla Dargis’s review of Jared Hess’s Gentlemen Broncos (2009) misses what’s going on. She and I were among the few writers who praised Hess’s previous film, Nacho Libre (2006). . […]
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 […]