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By now, the 1946 noir classic The Killers, available on Criterion Collection DVD (currently our best indication that a movie is held in high regard), is likely better known than the work that inspired it, a 1927 Hemingway short story of the same name.
In this essay [1] I try to categorize the range of artistic options that filmmakers currently have at hand to evoke bodily disgust. [2] Or, to reframe this approach in a slightly different manner: If we examine the variety of disgusting scenes at the movies, how can we usefully distinguish them? My aim is to provide a number of brushstrokes for a broader panoramic picture of disgust.
We Hear the Sound of Splashing
David A. Kirby: Hulk Smash Accurate Science!
For most people, the start of the summer blockbuster season would not be an ideal time to be examining movies for their scientific verisimilitude. Big, silly popcorn flicks are about explosions, muscled men in tights fighting CGI creatures, and witty one liners from action heroes, not about scientific integrity. Yet, there I was in the theater hearing a character in the comic book film Thor bandy about phrases like “Einstein-Rosen bridge” and “wormhole.”
Was Ever a City More Bewildering? Wim Wenders, John Singleton, Richard Rodriguez, and Others Grapple With the Hidden, Violent, Beautiful, Sunny, Dreamy Mystery That Is Los Angeles Images of Los Angeles in art, film, television, and advertising have captivated global audiences for decades. This weekend, a group of filmmakers, critics, historians, and writers visited Zócalo at the Getty Center to participate in three panels exploring how L.A. has shaped the world. The half-day Zócalo/Getty conference, entitled “How Los Angeles Invented the World,” was part of Pacific Standard Time, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California.
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Looking a little grainy, Bilbo … Martin Freeman in The Hobbit.
What is the difference between The Hobbit and the news? Not as much as there should be | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free
Depending on your position, the phrase ‘film theory’ can refer either to a critical rigour informed by mainly European intellectual currents, or a ponderous and parasitic dependence on certain schools of thought, particularly psychoanalysis. The 50th anniversary edition of Screen – the journal responsible for the dissemination of so-called ‘ Screen Theory’ in the 1970s – includes several reflections on its intellectual legacy, its engagement with psychoanalysis being the most prominent.
Undoing the Image | berfrois
In conjunction with La Furia Umana , Notebook is very happy to present Ted Fendt 's original English translation of Luc Moullet's "Rockefeller's Melancholy," on Michelangelo Antonioni.
Rockefeller's Melancholy on Notebook | MUBI
With Aki Kaurismäki's movies, as with Yasujirô Ozu's, familiarity breeds contentment.
Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre is like all his other work and thank goodness for that | Film | The Guardian
Meaghan Emery on The Artist | berfrois
Every once in a while a film comes out that breaks through conventional wisdom. The idea that a black and white silent film in 2011 could be such a resounding critical and commercial success, in addition to its prominence in international film festivals, six Césars, and now five Academy Awards for best picture (the first time ever for a French film), best director, best actor, best original score, and best costume design, who would have thought?
I used to believe, like Wenders or Godard, in the death of cinema. I accepted it as fact but never believed in it.
A Personal Reflection on the Work of Abel Ferrara in Light of His New Picture (Written in the Shadow of Serge Daney) on Notebook | MUBI
Writing and making films is an accumulative process. While some directors gain instant notoriety for a particular film or genre, others take time percolating their identities as filmmakers and are usually celebrated not for a particular work, but the collection of work spanning their career.
The Quietus | Film | Film Features | Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed
AMONG cineastes, the idea that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will give its awards to the wrong people goes without saying. This disdain for the Oscars can largely be written off as a mixture of various forms of snobbery.
The Academy awards: Why "The Artist" shouldn't win | The Economist
Fellini and Antonioni: Film and Friendship | Hollywood | Vanity Fair
S omehow Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini, the two greatest film directors to emerge in Italy after World War II, sparked a rivalry in the public’s imagination that didn’t really exist for either of them. Cinema buffs still sometimes ask, “Are you a Fellini person or an Antonioni person?François Truffaut’s Big Interview with Alfred Hitchcock (Free Audio) | Open Culture
The great French filmmaker François Truffaut would have turned 80 today, and to celebrate, we’re bringing back a wonderful series of audio recordings — Truffaut’s lengthy interview with another legendary director, Alfred Hitchcock. Back in 1962, François Truffaut , the inspiration behind French New Wave cinema, met with Hitchcock. And, assisted by a helpful translator, the two directors talked through Hitchcock’s life and vast filmography, moving from his early films shot it Britain ( Blackmail , The 39 Steps , Secret Agent ), to his later Hollywood productions – North by Northwest , Psycho and Vertigo.casavettes
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