Criterion Files: Vivre Sa Vie and Summer Hours
It has been a while since The Criterion Collection has graced our shelves, but this week they bring us two films on Blu-Ray. Both films are imports from France, and both star a beautiful actress. One...
View ArticleCulture Warrior: Honorary Oscars are Bullsh*t and Godard Knows It
Last week, the recipients of the Honorary Oscars were announced, the awards ceremony taking place at the Academy Governor’s Awards Dinner on November 13 (an evident pushback from the typical televised...
View ArticleFilmmaker Claude Chabrol Dies at 80
Veteran French filmmaker and New Wave-co-founder Claude Chabrol passed away in Paris this morning at the age of 80. Chabrol, like Éric Rohmer who died this past January, wrote for the Cahiers du cinéma...
View ArticleFor Better or Worse: Directors Working With Spouses
This past weekend saw the cinematic glory of Resident Evil: Afterlife pushing past security to get into your local theater even though it was moving slower than an instant replay in a curling match....
View ArticleCriterion Files #481: Made in U.S.A.
Just as film noir isn’t one single definable thing, noir itself contains many offshoots and categories. And every Noirvember, it’s important to not only examine good ol’ film noir, but its...
View ArticleYear in Review: Top 10 Topics, Trends, and Events of 2010 That Have Nothing...
It’s that time of the year again: that brief span of time in between Christmas and New Year’s when journalists, critics, and cultural commentators scramble to define an arbitrary block of time even...
View ArticleThe 2011 Oscar Winners
Editor’s Note: This article will be updated in real time as the winners come in during the Academy Awards broadcast. Please join us for our Live-Blog tonight (because we ask nicely), and while you...
View ArticleCulture Warrior: Can Cinema Ever Be Spontaneous?
Acts of spontaneity have been an essential component of artistic expression in the twentieth century, based in the notion of a perceived “purity” within the spontaneous act that allows art to be...
View ArticleCriterion Files #238: Godard Gets Musical with ‘A Woman is a Woman’
Welcome to the second installment of Guest Author month at Criterion Files: a month devoted to important classic and contemporary bloggers. Each Wednesday for the month of April, a writer and fellow...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard’s ‘Film Socialsme’ Trailer Fast-Forwards Through Itself
I can’t be sure, but they may have condensed at least half of Jean-Luc Godard‘s latest film into this minute-long trailer. The images flash by in typically enigmatic form, but at least we know what he...
View ArticleCriterion Files #275: Godard Fights Cinematic Imperialism with ‘Tout Va Bien’
Much of Jean-Luc Godard’s cinematic output is inaccessible to American audiences. His most prolific period, the 1960s (in which he made 18 feature films) is almost entirely available, due in no small...
View ArticleReview: Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Film Socialisme’ Seeks to End Language
afilm a symphonie threemovements deathof language The above “sentence” would probably be the most appropriate way to describe French filmmaking legend Jean-Luc Godard’s latest (and possibly his last)...
View ArticleMovie News After Dark: The Stand, Ape Evolution, Spoilers Approved and Every...
What is Movie News After Dark? It’s a nightly movie news column and link collector that is tired of explaining itself to you, quite frankly. Drew McWeeney at HitFix got the scoop this evening on a big...
View ArticleCulture Warrior: Directors Making Commercials
We often don’t think of commercials as having authorship, at least not in the same way we think of movies. Commercials are created by advertising companies, by focus groups, by strategists; not by...
View ArticleDisc Spotlight: One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
For a filmmaker who completed only seven feature films in his lifetime, Andrei Tarkovsky has made an enormous impact. In addition to his artistry, perhaps the enduring fascination with his work has to...
View ArticleThe Stylistic Connections Between Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ and...
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Moonrise Kingdom. Wes Anderson is known for getting his inspiration from a variety of sources. While Anderson’s signature visual quirks make his films...
View ArticleDenouncing the Meat Parade: 6 Nominees Who Famously Criticized the Oscars
Criticizing the Academy Awards is becoming a tradition as solidified as the Awards ceremony itself. The ink spilled over anticipation of who will come out swinging during Awards season is typically...
View Article6 Filmmaking Tips From Quentin Tarantino
Emerging from a nitrate fire in 1963, Quentin Tarantino was fed only exploitation films, spaghetti Westerns and actual spaghetti until he was old enough to thirst for blood. He found his way into the...
View ArticleGodard’s ‘Breathless’: A Movie Made By a Movie Fan
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss...
View ArticleGodard, ‘Contempt’ and the Steven Soderbergh of the 60s
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss...
View Article‘Pierrot le fou’ and the Feel Good Waterboarding Scene of the Summer
Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll discuss...
View Article‘Histoire(s) du Cinema:’ A Mash-Up Video Eulogy For Movies
Canal+ Looking for any excuse, Landon Palmer and Scott Beggs are using the 2012 Sight & Sound poll results as a reason to take different angles on the best movies of all time. Every week, they’ll...
View Article6 Filmmaking Tips from Jean-Luc Godard
Les Films Imperia Jean-Luc Godard’s career has been devoted to both honoring and destroying cinema, to taking it apart and refitting it anew, and to making it speak against those who most often speak...
View Article2014: The Year That Film Broke
Paramount Pictures When Interstellar’s credits rolled, I felt satisfied and relieved – not only because I enjoyed the stunning but imperfect film, but because the very experience of seeing the film on...
View ArticleUnnecessary Remake of Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville to Reflect Today’s World
Janus FIlms That Godard is so hot right now. I don’t even need to write his first name in the lead-in. His recent 3D film, Goodbye to Language, was named the best picture of 2014 by the National...
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