Werner Herzog has not just his Bad Lieutenant rethink at Toronto but also his David Lynch-executive produced psychological crime drama My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done. Strip out the title cards and the formulaic voiceover and there is some vintage Herzog in this trailer.
If you never saw Husbands during its brief release in 1970 through Columbia (mostly misunderstood by critics, audiences and even the studio that released it) or bought it on VHS, you’ve probably only heard of it through discussions people have of John Cassavetes’ work or books written on the actor/director. If you’ve read about the film, like I have, you’re probably excited for this release, as for the first time, Husbands is being released close to how Cassavetes wanted it to be seen. It is one of my favorite chapters in Ray Carney’s seminal book on Cassavetes’ life and work, […]
Timely? Too late? Successfully satirical or else defeated by the same complexities that have befuddled the lawmakers themselves? We’ll see what happens when Moore takes his Everyman Avenger persona into the dizzying world of derivatives and credit default swaps. Embedded video from CNN Video
In our Spring, 2009 issue, Lauren Wissot interviewed In a Dream director Jeremiah Zagar as well as his longtime producer Jeremy Yaches and their executive producers Pamela Tanner Boll and Geralyn White Dreyfous. The feature, which is a fascinating look at artistic obsession and its effects on an entire Philadelphia family, receives its broadcast premiere on HBO2 tonight at 8pm with further screenings as detailed on this schedule: Wednesday, 8/19 @ 8pm – HBO2 EastWednesday, 8/19 @ 11pm – HBO2 WestMonday, 8/24 @ 6:30pm – HBO2 EastMonday, 824 @ 9:30pm – HBO2 WestFriday, 8/28 @ 1:30am – HBO2 EastFriday, 8/28 […]
Peter Bowen at FilmInFocus pointed me towards this striking Roger Ebert piece entitled “Death Panels: A Most Excellent Phrase.” Weighing in on the current health reform debate from the perspective of a man who has endured several life-threatening illnesses and operations in recent years, Ebert illustrates his article with images and film clips from a movie that shows us what a real death panel would actually be like. From Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc:
MARÍA ONETTO IN DIRECTOR LUCRECIA MARTEL’S THE HEADLESS WOMAN. COURTESY STRAND RELEASING. Over the course of the past decade, Lucrecia Martel has established herself as one of the most gifted and original filmmakers around. The Argentine auteur was born in Salta, a city in the northwest of Argentina, in 1966, and spent her teenage years capturing much of her family’s daily life on film. In 1986, she studied Communication Science and had stints at two film schools, Avellaneda Experimental, studying animation, and the National Experimentation Filmmaking School in Buenos Aires. However because she never finished her film studies (one of […]
When I used to be script reader for one of the mini-majors, I remember all of the executives taking Robert McKee’s Story seminars. Invariably they all came back extolling its praises, even the ones who kind of dismissed it going in. When he issued his seminar in book form, Story, I got around to reading it, and, like everything, there’s plenty to take away from it even if you choose not to focus on some of his broader dictums. (I especially like McKee for his discussion of the expectations of genre.) Anyway, so too his interviews. There’s a lot of […]
With his partner, the late Garrett Scott, Ian Olds made the excellent Iraq war doc, Occupation: Dreamland. This year Olds completed his first solo doc, Fixer, a riveting story of the capture and execution by the Taliban of Ajmal Nadshbandi, whose job was to aid foreign journalists in their attempts to capture what’s going on in Afghanistan and make sense of it for us. The film not only captures the human tragedy of Nadshbandi’s killing but also its global dimension, showing us how governments decide how to value the lives of their citizens. On the basis of this film as […]
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS – Werner Herzog Interview from Millennium Films on Vimeo. Hat tip: Movie City Indie.
With the movie namechecked in many of the reviews for Thomas Pynchon’s new novel and a cult audience that shows no signs of abating, I suppose it’s time that the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski is evoked in an advertisement.