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In " A Canon With More Cannons," Vadim Rizov looks at William Lustig's new curated film series"The '70s: Buried Treasures"‹for Anthology Film Archives in NYC. Vadim writes: "Based on the three I've seen‹Rolling Thunder and The Outfit, both directed by John Flynn, and The Outside Man‹Lustig's a fine connoisseur of movies combining macho badassery with thoughtful form. (And yes, as it happens, Tarantino did name his distribution company after the former, then named his production company after Band of Outsiders as if to balance it out.) While it might normally be alarming that Anthology Film Archives is taking a week out of its usually-pretty-rarefied schedule to show old Charles Bronson flicks et al. [ed: related reading here], the fact is no one shows this stuff in a serious curatorial context..." Read the rest >> |
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In This Dispatch:
- What's New: The Class, Katyn, and more.
- What We're Watching: Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Edge of Love, Nights and Weekends.
- Explore: I Sell the Dead.
- Contests (reminder): Thirst.
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French filmmaker Laurence Cantet's film about a teacher dealing with a challenging Paris class. "Cantet's real-time classroom scenes are revelations," writes David Edelstein in New York Magazine, "They make you understand that teaching is moment to moment, an endless series of negotiations that hang on intangibles‹on imagination and empathy and the struggle to stay centered. This is a remarkable movie." Adds Michael Sragow: "The Class ranks with the very best films ever made about teaching, and it's unlike any English or American film about teaching ever made." GreenCine also posted an in-depth interview with filmmaker Cantet. |
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"The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda musters the power of classical filmmaking and personal emotional investment to dramatize a stunning atrocity long covered up," writes EW's Lisa Schwarzbaum. The NY Times' A.O. Scott calls it "a film with a stately, deliberate quality that insulates it against sentimentality and makes it all the more devastating." |
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When Michael Chabon had his first novel " The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" published in 1988, it created a literary sensation, became a best-seller and sent the young author onwards toward a major career, which he has sustained to this day. Because of the gay and bisexual references in that novel, the author's initial fan base was perhaps wider than it might have been otherwise, but the sense of young adults experimenting with "forbidden fruit," from crime to transgressive sex seemed just that: experimentations that may or may not prove conclusive. The widely-panned-upon-release movie version of the novel turns out to be better than expected, due in some part to... read review >> |
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Given The Edge of Love is both a biopic of a famous writer and a film about the horrors of war, it's a wonder that the combo wasn't automatically showered with prizes. But instead it arrives here without much fanfare, after a quiet run in England, and too late for awards season. The Edge of Love tells the story of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas ( Matthew Rhys). His wife Caitlin ( Sienna Miller) and his childhood sweetheart Vera (Keira Knightley) meet up during the Blitz of 1940 and become best friends. Dylan flirts with Vera, but she falls in love with a soldier, William ( Cillian Murphy), who of course is just about to be shipped out to war and of course leaves her pregnant. In-between, Dylan tries to... read review >> |
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For a new podcast on GreenCine Daily, Aaron Hillis chatted with producer (and occasional actor) Larry Fessenden and former visual effects artist Glenn McQuaid, whose new film, which he wrote and directed, I Sell the Dead, pays homage Hammer Studios, EC Comics and Young Frankenstein. The film was produced under Fessenden's Scareflix horror banner. More >> |
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Reminder! Acclaimed director Park Chan-wook ( Oldboy; Lady Vengeance) returns with his highly anticipated vampire film Thirst, an official selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Song Kang Ho plays a respected priest who turns into a vampire after a medical experiment gone wrong. His newfound thirst for blood and deadly attraction for his best friend's wife ( Kim Ok-bin) drives him down a road of lust and depravity. For the excellent Thirst soundtrack Park teams up again with music director Jo Young-wook. And now, thanks to GreenCine and Focus Features, you can win that soundtrack CD and poster in our Thirst-y new contest. Read more >> |
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