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Sion Sono was in New York last week for the New York Asian Film Festival, promoting his two latest films, Love Exposure and Be Sure to Share. Andrew Grant had a chance to sit down with him and discuss these films as well as his career as a whole. Though he's directed nearly twenty films over the past thirty years, Sono's work remains relatively unknown in the States outside of the fanboy/J-Horror circle, with whom he made a splash in 2001 with the cult film Suicide Club... Read more >> |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: Lonely Are the Brave, Resolved, and more.
- What We're Watching (from the archives): Czech, Smithereens, Col Blimp.
- Explore: Pablo Larraín (Tony Manero) podcast.
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Kirk Douglas considers this modern day Western, scripted by the great Dalton Trumbo, his best film and it's hard to disagree. Finally out on DVD, its arrival caused DVDTalk's Jamie Rich to write, "Every once in a while, a movie drops out of the great film library in the sky and lands in my lap and I find myself at a loss for an explanation of why I haven't heard of it before. A deep and thoughtful take on the modern western...Kirk Douglas has never been better." |
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"The cultural and intellectual underpinnings of high school debate teams are put under the microscope in Greg Whiteley's engrossing doc, Resolved," wrote Variety's Robert Koehler. "Full of details that will both shock and induce nostalgia among former debaters, and refreshing in its presentation of American teens as intelligent young adults, pic reveals a fascinating rift inside the debate world that could portend a coming revolution." Adds DVD Verdict: "Among the most engrossing documentaries I've had the opportunity to see, I highly recommend it." Excellent music score, too. |
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Any movie that knocks about your most cherished belief, say, that Capitalism--or, what the hell, Communism, Christianity, the Internet, the motion picture industry--is the greatest achievement of the modern world, is to be treasured. Doubting one's dream is generally salutary, and Czech Dream leaves us doing just this—and more; this little (less-than-90-minutes) documentary is a knockout. .... read review >> |
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Not my favorite of Michael Powell's films, but to me, this is like saying one Van Gogh is not quite as good as another -- each film, each work, is a masterpiece in its own way, from a director who never made a weak film. And in Colonel Blimp, there is much to delight, much to revel in. What also occurred to me while watching the Criterion DVD is how a filmmaker who in many ways worked in a world, a time, a place so foreign to Americans in my generation, can still captivate so completely. With this particular film it takes a bit more time to become involved, but as with all of Powell's films is well worth the effort. What it has, too, is an absolutely magisterial performance at its center -- that of Roger Livesey... read review >>
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Aaron Hillis, introducing a new podcast on GreenCine Daily: "As Andrew Grant, David Fear and I discussed in our podcast last October, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín's Tony Manero was my favorite feature at the 2008 New York Film Festival, a marvelously unhinged study of pop-culture obsession in a suffocating environment (if I may crib myself)." Aaron talks with Larrain about fascism, disco, the Chilean filmmaking scene, and why he agrees with one of his naysayers. More >>
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