June 27, 2007

Dispatch #190: Full of pride

In This Dispatch:
* The Bow/Kim Ki-duk
* What's New: Chris Marker, Snake Moan, and more.
* What We're Watching: Victor Pellerin, 7 Men, and Darwin.
* Explore: Best Gay films and more.

Read the rainbow flag edition of the GreenCine Dispatch, #190

Posted by cphillips at 12:40 PM

June 21, 2007

Dispatch #189: Goes behind the Iron Curtain

In This Dispatch:
* What's New: If..., WR, and more.
* What We're Watching: Panic, Eating Out, and Sean.
* Explore: East German film, Terabithia and more.

Put them together, and the terms "East Germany" and "cinema" conjure up bleak associations: a gray Berlin, barbed wire, and the soul-frying bitterness of a Hollywood Cold War picture along the lines of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold or a post-reunification lookback such as The Lives of Others. But, as Robert Horton shows in our latest primer, East German Film, there's a fair amount of barbed wire and bitterness in the films of the German Democratic Republic, but there's much more: the subject is ripe for re-discovery, a process helped along in the US by a 2005 Museum of Modern Art series and a steady stream of DVD releases from First Run Features. Click on for a guide to some of the more important works from behind the Iron Curtain: East German Film.

All this and more, in the latest edition of the GreenCine Dispatch newsletter.

Posted by cphillips at 1:43 PM

June 13, 2007

Dispatch #188 salutes new Austrian film

In This Dispatch:
* New Austrian Film primer
* What's New: Glory, Two of Us, and more.
* What We're Watching: Ozu, Planetes, and They Shoot Movies.
* Explore: Ralph Nader doc and a podcast.

Check it all out in Dispatch Newsletter #188 >>

Posted by cphillips at 3:42 PM