Recently added articles from Cineaste:
Speaking documentrary truth to power.(influence of documentary films about the Iraq War and the United States' anti terrorism stance)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Recent Hollywood films dramatizing the Iraq War and America's Global War on Terror--including Home of the Brave, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah, Redacted, Grace is Gone, and Stop-Loss--have bombed at the box-office. Moviegoers are clearly not interested, but why not? Conservative ...
No Country for Old Men: pro & con reviews of Hollywood's "Best Picture of the Year".
Jun 22, 2008; Brown, Royal ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] No Country for Old Men, the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the 2005 book of the same name by critically acclaimed American novelist Cormac McCarthy, generated considerable excitement among critics and other journalists at festival ...
No exit in Texas.(Joel and Ethan Coen's movie 'No Country for Old Men')
Jun 22, 2008; Brown, Royal ... It's hard to say that I was actually entertained, at least in the usual sense of the word, by No Country for Old Men. Even with its moments of often dark Coen brothers humor, the film is so unrelentingly bleak that not all that long ago Hollywood would not even have nominated it for a ...
Comic dread in the modern frontier.(Joel and Ethan Coen's movie 'No Country for Old Men')
Jun 22, 2008; Sharrett, Christopher ... These remarks are not driven by any real distaste for Joel and Ethan Coen's film--it may be an important work for all my current reservations--but by the climate of impatience that wants to canonize works with all due haste, to refuse to allow the spectator to take a step back and consider ...
A steady gaze: the films of Manoel de Oliveira.(Biography)
Jun 22, 2008; Rapfogel, Jared ... It's impossible to discuss the work of Manoel de Oliveira without acknowledging his longevity (he hits the century mark this December), or his equally incredible productivity (at least a film a year since 1990). But there's a less-often remarked and perhaps more significant aspect to his ...
An ethical cinema: an interview with Manoel de Oliveira.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; Rapfogel, Jared ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's surely unprecedented for a retrospective organized on the occasion of a filmmaker's centennial, such as the one hosted by the Brooklyn Academy of Music this spring in honor of Manoel de Oliveira, to boast both a local premiere of a brand-new film ...
"Above all ... don't perform!" Playing to the camera of Luis Bunuel.
Jun 22, 2008; Jones, Julie ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Luis Bunuel's English biographer, John Baxter, remarks that "From the start, Bunuel had trouble directing actors, a problem he never overcame." Given the laudadory commentaries from a great number of performers who worked in Bunuel's films, the observation ...
Speaking documentary truth to power: an interview with Alex Gibney.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; Crowdus, Gary ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Alex Gibney received the Academy Award in February for Best Documentary Feature for his film Taxi to the Dark Side, discerning viewers will have noticed on his tuxedo lapel an orange ribbon, which he wore that evening in support of the American Civil ...
First you get the power, then you get the money: two models of film festivals.(Excerpt)
Jun 22, 2008; Peranson, Mark ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We've yet to reach the point, as rather trenchantly proposed by Mike Judge in the visionary satire Idiocracy, where the collective film experience consists of sitting in a common space and watching a film called Ass. Thanks, some would argue, to the role ...
A sense of place: an interview with Ramin Bahrani.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2008; Porton, Richard ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once dismissed Willets Point, a chaotic aggregation of junk heaps, garages, and vacant lots in Queens adjacent to Shea Stadium, as "another euphemism for urban blight." For Ramin Bahrani, an Iranian-American filmmaker ...
In memoriam--Paul Arthur Cineaste associate editor.(In memoriam)
Jun 22, 2008 ... How do you write a love letter to a movie?," Paul Arthur mused in the opening line of his 2001 review of Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (Cineaste, Vol. XXVI, No. 3). That elegantly direct yet deceptively simple question so perfectly captures the voice and the essence of our deeply ...
Taxi to the Dark Side.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2008; Sklar, Robert ... Taxi to the Dark Side Produced by Alex Gibney, Eva Orner, and Susannah Shipman; written and directed by Alex Gibney; cinematography by Maryse Alberti and Greg Andracke; edited by Sloane Klevin; original music by Ivor Guest and Robert Logan. Color, 106 mins. A THINKFilm release. ...
Brick Lane.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2008; Murray, Jonathan ... Brick Lane Produced by Alison Owen and Christopher Collins; directed by Sarah Gavron; screenplay by Abi Morgan and Laura Jones, from the novel by Monica Ali; cinematography by Robbie Ryan; production design by Simon Elliott; costumes by Michael O'Connor; edited by Melanie Oliver; music by ...
Heartbeat Detector.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2008; Ratner, Megan ... Heartbeat Detector Produced by Sophie Dulac and Michel Zana; directed by Nicolas Klotz; screenplay by Elisabeth Perceval; cinematography by Josee Deshaies; production design by Antoine Plateau; original music by Syd Matters; starring Mathieu Amalric, Michael Lonsdale, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, ...
The Duchess of Langeais.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2008; Sicinski, Michael ... The Duchess of Langeais Produced by Roberto Cicutto, Martine Marignac, Luigi Musini, Ermanno Olmi and Maurice Tinchant; directed by Jacques Rivette; screenplay by Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent and Jacques Rivette, based on the novella The Duchess of Langeais by Honore de Balzac; ...
Diary of the Dead.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2008; Doherty, Thomas ... Diary of the Dead Produced by Peter Grunwald, Arthur Spigel, Sam Englebardt, and Ara Katz; directed and written by George A. Romero; cinematography by Adam Swica; production design by Rupert Lazarus; costume design by Alex Kavanagh; edited by Michael Doherty; original music by Norman ...
Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2008; Menashe, Louis ... Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File Produced by Olga Konskaya; directed by Andrei Nekrasov; written by Nekrasov and Konskaya; cinematography by Sergei Tsikhanovich and Marcus Winterbauer; edited by Konskaya and Nekrasov; music and vocals by Irina Bogushevskaya; with Alexander ...
Days of Heaven.(Movie review)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Days of Heaven Written and directed by Terrence Malick; produced by Bert and Harold Schneider; cinematography by Nestor Almendros, with additional photography by Haskell Wexler; music by Ennio Morricone; with Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert Wilke, Jackie ...
Pierrot le fou.(Video recording review)
Jun 22, 2008; Brown, Royal S. ... Pierrot le fou Directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard, based on the novel Obsession by Lionel White; produced by Georges de Beauregard; cinematography by Raoul Coutard; editing by Francoise Collin; music by Antoine Duhamel; starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina. DVD, color, 110 mins., ...
Chameleon Street.(Video recording review)
Jun 22, 2008; Thompson, Clifford ... Chameleon Street Directed and written by Wendell B. Harris, Jr.; cinematography by Daniel S. Noga; original music by Peter S. Moore; starring Wendell B. Harris, Jr., Angela Leslie, Amina Fakir and Colette Haywood. DVD, color, 94 mins., 1990. Distributed by Image Entertainment, ...