As December begins, you might be looking forward to spending time with friends and family over the holidays—and in need of some gift-giving inspiration. Look no further than Notebook's Cinephile Gift Guide, the proverbial online Shop Around the Corner (1940).Below is our third annual, lovingly curated guide to the holiday season. It's sure to spread film-themed cheer, and we hope it's thorough enough to surprise all of the film fans in your life.Jump to a category:Books about cinemaBooks by filmmakers and artistsHome videoMusicHome goods, posters, and gamesApparel Books About CINEMAFirst up is UK culture and music critic Ian Penman’s kaleidoscopic, genre-bending offering to Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors. The book has drawn comparisons to Charles Baudelaire and Roland Barthes, but is undoubtedly a sui generis response to a singular legacy.On offer this year from Another Gaze Editions is My Cinema by Marguerite Duras, a...
- 12/12/2023
- MUBI
Kino Lorber has bought all North American distribution rights to Jean-Luc Godard’s final short film “Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars.” The 20-minute short played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will next screen at Toronto and New York film festivals.
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical roll out for the title this fall, followed by a run at New York’s Film Forum in December, alongside Cyril Leuthy’s documentary “Godard Cinema.”
“Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars” was meant to be a feature film project but Godard died a year ago, at the age of 93, before finishing it. Godard had envisioned a complex mixed-media collage of history, politics and cinema through ideas, references and visuals.
Kino Lorber’s library already boasts several iconic films by Godard, including New Wave classics “A Married Woman,” “Alphaville,” and “La Chinoise,...
Kino Lorber is planning a theatrical roll out for the title this fall, followed by a run at New York’s Film Forum in December, alongside Cyril Leuthy’s documentary “Godard Cinema.”
“Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars” was meant to be a feature film project but Godard died a year ago, at the age of 93, before finishing it. Godard had envisioned a complex mixed-media collage of history, politics and cinema through ideas, references and visuals.
Kino Lorber’s library already boasts several iconic films by Godard, including New Wave classics “A Married Woman,” “Alphaville,” and “La Chinoise,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: International sales rights for late iconic director Jean-Luc Godard’s final work Trailer Of The Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars have been acquired by Goodfellas ahead of its world premiere in Cannes Classics on Sunday.
The 20-minute work was written and directed by Godard in collaboration with Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno and Nicole Brenez.
Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. This film follows that tradition and remains his ultimate gesture of cinema.
The filmmaker accompanied the trailer with the following statement: “Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots while keeping track of modern times.”
The work is billed as A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in coproduction with L’Atelier.
“Saint Laurent is honored to present a special work Jean-Luc Godard was working on before passing,...
The 20-minute work was written and directed by Godard in collaboration with Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno and Nicole Brenez.
Godard often transformed his synopses into aesthetic programs. This film follows that tradition and remains his ultimate gesture of cinema.
The filmmaker accompanied the trailer with the following statement: “Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots while keeping track of modern times.”
The work is billed as A Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello and Vixens production, in coproduction with L’Atelier.
“Saint Laurent is honored to present a special work Jean-Luc Godard was working on before passing,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSThe Cannes Classics lineup was announced last week, and with it comes news of the premiere of Jean-Luc Godard’s posthumous, 20-minute-long short Phony Wars. Dubbed “a trailer of the film that will never exist,” the film has a short teaser courtesy of Saint Laurent Productions.Adèle Haenel (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) wrote a letter to the magazine Telerama about her decision to retire from acting. In an English-language excerpt, via the Guardian, she writes: “I decided to politicize my retirement from cinema to denounce the general complacency of the profession towards sexual aggressors and more generally the way in which this sphere collaborates with the mortal, ecocidal, racist order of the world such as it is.”Harmony Korine will receive the Pardo d’onore Manor,...
- 5/10/2023
- MUBI
In the six months since cinema lost its greatest pioneer, there has been much speculation as to the films Jean-Luc Godard left behind. Earlier this month there were reports that Funny Wars, a 20-minute short the French-Swiss director helmed before he passed, would premiere at Cannes Film Festival. While we’ll likely find out of that is indeed the case on April 13, when the lineup is unveiled, it certainly won’t be his last film.
In an interview with author Nicole Brenez, who has published a new book on Godard, she reveals to Critikat (via Jordan Cronk) that the director “planned, directed, and supervised several other [films]” before he passed. She noted the director’s close collaborators Fabrice Aragno and Jean-Paul Battaggia are “hard at work to finish them,” and revealed that beyond these films “we will also find many film treasures” from Godard.
Aside from Funny Wars, said to take...
In an interview with author Nicole Brenez, who has published a new book on Godard, she reveals to Critikat (via Jordan Cronk) that the director “planned, directed, and supervised several other [films]” before he passed. She noted the director’s close collaborators Fabrice Aragno and Jean-Paul Battaggia are “hard at work to finish them,” and revealed that beyond these films “we will also find many film treasures” from Godard.
Aside from Funny Wars, said to take...
- 3/28/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsrrr.First: Notebook is launching a weekly email newsletter in 2023! Sign up here to keep up with our latest writing in this precarious digital age.At a recent screening of Rrr in Chicago, S.S. Rajamouli mentioned that his father and screenwriting partner V. Vijayendra Prasad is beginning to draft a sequel. In the meantime, Rajamouli is preparing an untitled film starring Mahesh Bubu, set to begin filming in the spring.In this Willamette Week article about George Saunders’s new short story collection Liberation Day, there is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it mention of a film project. Richard Ayoade will direct an adaptation of Saunders’s 2012 short story “The Semplica-Girl Diaries,” set to begin filming next year. Though Ayoade stole the show in both parts of Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir, this will be his...
- 11/16/2022
- MUBI
More than 200 films selected for first in-person festival since the start of the pandemic.
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (April 28-May 7) has unveiled a line-up of 217 films from 56 countries for its first fully-fledged physical edition since start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A special programme curated by Train To Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is among the selection for the festival’s 23rd edition, which was announced at back-to-back press conferences in Jeonju and Seoul today (March 31).
The 10-day event will include an awards ceremony on May 4 while the Jeonju Project industry programme will run May 1-3.
This year’s...
South Korea’s Jeonju International Film Festival (April 28-May 7) has unveiled a line-up of 217 films from 56 countries for its first fully-fledged physical edition since start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A special programme curated by Train To Busan director Yeon Sang-ho is among the selection for the festival’s 23rd edition, which was announced at back-to-back press conferences in Jeonju and Seoul today (March 31).
The 10-day event will include an awards ceremony on May 4 while the Jeonju Project industry programme will run May 1-3.
This year’s...
- 3/31/2022
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSWerner Herzog is set to publish his first novel, a semi-fictional retelling of the story of Hiroo Onda. A friend of Herzog, Onda is a former Japanese soldier known for spending 29 years in the jungle on an island in the Philippines, refusing to surrender at the end of World War II. Penguin Random House states that the novel is written in "an inimitable, hypnotic style—part documentary, part poem, and part dream." Following his erotic nunsploitation film Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven is making the erotic political thriller Young Sinner. The film, according to Verhoeven and RoboCop co-writer Edward Neumeier, will take place in Washington DC and focus on a young staffer "drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger." As this is a Verhoeven film, Neumeir promises that there will be "also be a little sex.
- 12/13/2021
- MUBI
The 15th Navarre International Documentary Film Festival drew to a close on Saturday with the triumph of the movie co-directed by Anders Edström and CW Winter. On Saturday, the winners of the 2021 Punto de Vista – Navarre International Documentary Film Festival were unveiled, after the gathering unspooled in Pamplona from 15-20 March. The festival’s Grand Prize for Best Film went to a co-production involving the USA, Sweden, Hong Kong, Japan and the UK, The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), directed by CW Winter and Anders Edström. The jury – comprising Nicole Brenez, James Lattimer and Antoine Thirion – called it “a spectacular but at the same time unassuming film. Visiting means seeing, and seeing on a regular basis. At the core of this feature is a distraught woman who is visited by many memories. There is a house, visited by...
1976: Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver premieres to widespread acclaim, winning the year’s Palme d’Or and solidifying its director’s reputation as one of the foremost representatives of New Hollywood. Amidst rampant corruption in New York City, with crime rates skyrocketing and the city’s debt mounting to unsustainable levels, the movies of the moment seemed to actively reflect the realities at hand. As the conservative myths peddled in the immediate post-war years had come to a crushing end, first tarnished by Vietnam and then fully dispelled by Watergate, traditional Hollywood entertainment needed to keep up with the times—and if the epoch’s defining discontent was to be harnessed by an industry made increasingly precarious by the ever-growing influence of television, then new popular forms were needed. And Scorsese, along with the likes of Coppola, Friedkin, and Cimino, supplied exactly that, introducing modernism into the Hollywood studio system,...
- 5/13/2019
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.Newsa remarkable artistic unison is upon us: Argentine auteur Lucrecia Martel (Zama) and musician Björk are set to team on a theatrical concert production, to be directed by Martel. Recommended VIEWINGThe International Film Festival Rotterdam has concluded, meanwhile they’ve thankfully shared a host of essential masterclasses, all of which are viewable from the festival's YouTube channel: Nicole Brenez, Claire Denis, Roberto Minervini, Carlos Reygadas, and Jia Zhangke.Almodóvar reunites with his beloved muses Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas—here’s the lovely, colorful trailer for Pain & Glory (sans English subtitles).AlWe somehow missed this last week: Jia Zhangke teamed up with Apple on this cheerful short film-advertisement for their new iPhone Xs.modovar reunites with his beloved muses Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas—here’s the lovely, colourful trailer for Pain & Glory.
- 2/21/2019
- MUBI
The pool of talent attracted to this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam would impress any organizer, but ultimately that doesn’t mean much: access is access if you can get it, little more than bragging rights to those on the outside. Lucky for us, then, that there’s an openness to their programming, evidenced — significantly — by the release of their masterclasses. The most attention will be paid to 90-or-so-minute sit-downs with Claire Denis and Jia Zhangke, respectively present for High Life and Ash is Purest White, though one shouldn’t sleep on three others: Nicole Brenez on Godard and co-editing The Image Book; Roberto Minervini discussing What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?; and Carlos Reygadas, present for Our Time.
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- 1/30/2019
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Mubi is exclusively showing Donal Foreman's The Image You Missed (2018) as part of a collaboration with the Film Society of Lincoln Center for their Art of the Real showcase of innovative voices in nonfiction and hybrid filmmaking. The film is playing May 9 - June 8, 2018 in the United States.As I sat waiting for Donal Foreman to arrive at the headquarters of IndieLisboa, Lisbon’s International Independent Film Festival, I kept pondering over a brief, truncated voiceover a few minutes into his movie, The Image You Missed. “Each film is a mission impossible, but this one here, it was the most…” Watching his latest work screen in IndieLisboa’s international competition, the penultimate stop in a festival tour that brought Foreman to Rotterdam, Copenhagen’s Cph:Dox, Buenos Aires’s Bafici (where he nabbed the Grand Prize in the Avant Garde & Genre Competition) before landing a slot in the Art...
- 5/15/2018
- MUBI
Jean-Luc Godard’s “The Image Book” is a sprawling mash-up of movies from across the history of the medium, set to the legendary filmmaker’s lyrical voiceover, and many audiences at the Cannes premiere were caught off guard by the overload of reference points. While not as much of a conversation-starter as his innovative 3D effort “Goodbye to Language,” the 87-year-old Swiss-French director has certainly crafted a provocative, boundary-bursting cinematic achievement as only he could. Cineastes will get chills from the mere glimpses of “Johnny Guitar,” which Godard first celebrated in references to the movie from the first decade of his work over 50 years ago.
But one clip struck some viewers as strange even by Godardian standards: a fleeting, lo-res shot from “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” Michael Bay’s 2016 war movie about the attack on the American compound. Like much of what we see in “The Image Book,...
But one clip struck some viewers as strange even by Godardian standards: a fleeting, lo-res shot from “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,” Michael Bay’s 2016 war movie about the attack on the American compound. Like much of what we see in “The Image Book,...
- 5/13/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
In the final seconds of “The Image Book (aka Image and Word),” Jean-Luc Godard’s rapid-fire montage of movies and media set to his fragmented pronouncements, a dancer twirls around and falls to the floor. Despite the dense and murky assemblage leading up to this climax, it’s one of the most authentic endings in the filmmaker’s nearly 60-year career. It speaks to the intentions of a filmmaker who excels at messy, singular polemics: Have all the fun you want, because everybody’s doomed anyway.
Godard has a lot to say in “The Image Book,” in fits of inspired poetry and angry asides, in tune with the apocalyptic dimensions that characterize much of his late-period work. His raspy, bitter voiceover emanated from different channels throughout the theater at the Cannes premiere, his lyrical pronouncements rooting audiences in the confines of his restless mind. You choose to engage, or reject the entire endeavor outright.
Godard has a lot to say in “The Image Book,” in fits of inspired poetry and angry asides, in tune with the apocalyptic dimensions that characterize much of his late-period work. His raspy, bitter voiceover emanated from different channels throughout the theater at the Cannes premiere, his lyrical pronouncements rooting audiences in the confines of his restless mind. You choose to engage, or reject the entire endeavor outright.
- 5/11/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
The medium of cinema is used to tackle painfully unfinished family business in The Image You Missed, Irish multi-hyphenate Donal Foreman's deeply personal essay-film examining his estranged dad, the firebrand cineaste Arthur "Art" MacCaig. Premiering in a sidebar at Rotterdam, this elliptical compendium of archival and newly shot footage quickly became a "buzz" picture among the event's more ardently cinephile attendees.
The U.K.-U.S.-Ireland-France co-production has already nabbed several festival bookings in the months ahead, and the involvement of maverick auteur Philippe Grandrieux and esteemed critic/curator Nicole Brenez as executive producers will doubtless yield further high-profile engagements...
The U.K.-U.S.-Ireland-France co-production has already nabbed several festival bookings in the months ahead, and the involvement of maverick auteur Philippe Grandrieux and esteemed critic/curator Nicole Brenez as executive producers will doubtless yield further high-profile engagements...
- 2/3/2018
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Very Eye of Night is a series of columns on non-binary and female avant-garde film and video artists. The title refers to Maya Deren’s last completed film. Anthology Film Archives in New York presents a five-program retrospective of Carole Roussopoulos’s videos from November 7–9, 2017. The screenings will be introduced by Nicole Fernández Ferrer, director of the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center.Carole Roussopoulos, 1970. Photo by Guy Le Querrec.Jean-Luc Godard wrote a letter to Carole Roussopoulos in 1979 for Cahiers du cinéma in which he reflected on the motivations behind making films, and inquired: “Sometimes I wonder what has happened to all you have filmed in the four corners of France and the world… And I wonder why people in cinema want to film others with so much frenzy.” As Nicole Brenez recalls, the Swiss filmmaker responded to him: “to privilege the approach of those without a voice.” Carole Roussopoulos...
- 11/7/2017
- MUBI
Looking back on this still-young century makes clear that 2007 was a major time for cinematic happenings — and, on the basis of this retrospective, one we’re not quite through with ten years on. One’s mind might quickly flash to a few big titles that will be represented, but it is the plurality of both festival and theatrical premieres that truly surprises: late works from old masters, debuts from filmmakers who’ve since become some of our most-respected artists, and mid-career turning points that didn’t necessarily announce themselves as such at the time. Join us as an assembled team, many of whom were coming of age that year, takes on their favorites.
“Here in America there is no difference between a man and his economic fate. A man is made by his assets, income, position and prospects. The economic mask coincides completely with a man’s inner character. Everyone...
“Here in America there is no difference between a man and his economic fate. A man is made by his assets, income, position and prospects. The economic mask coincides completely with a man’s inner character. Everyone...
- 7/6/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
For Anglophone readers, Jean Louis Schefer’s name will most likely only be familiar through the reverent, often enigmatic references made in translated works by some of the most eminent French film theorists and critics: Gilles Deleuze, (“Jean Louis Schefer, in a book in which the theory forms a kind of great poem…”), Nicole Brenez, (“In the beginning was Jean Louis Schefer…”), Serge Daney (“[a thinker] mysterious and more complicated than we were”), etc. Semiotext(e)’s recent translation(1) of Schefer’s The Ordinary Man of Cinema, published in France in 1980, rectifies what was previously a serious gap in our knowledge of French film theory and offers the chance—especially as “film-philosophy” is so in vogue in academia right now—to reappraise how we conceive the relationship between cinema and thought today. In the opening line of the book, Schefer introduces himself as “the ordinary man of cinema”—someone with no professional...
- 12/23/2016
- MUBI
In today's roundup: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver at 40, a personal history of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket, an appreciation of Miguel Gomes's Arabian Nights, another on Moussa Touré's The Pirogue, revisiting Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat, Alex Ross Perry on Dennis Hopper in Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's The American Dreamer, Nicole Brenez on Jocelyne Saab, J. Hoberman on Richard Lester, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, Daniel Kasman on Michael Bay, Stuart Klawans on Amos Gitai’s Rabin, the Last Day and Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky's Colliding Dreams, Soraya Roberts on Winona Ryder, Matt Thrift on Robert De Niro—and much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 2/9/2016
- Keyframe
In today's roundup: Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver at 40, a personal history of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket, an appreciation of Miguel Gomes's Arabian Nights, another on Moussa Touré's The Pirogue, revisiting Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat, Alex Ross Perry on Dennis Hopper in Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson's The American Dreamer, Nicole Brenez on Jocelyne Saab, J. Hoberman on Richard Lester, Jonathan Rosenbaum on Tran Anh Hung's The Scent of Green Papaya, Daniel Kasman on Michael Bay, Stuart Klawans on Amos Gitai’s Rabin, the Last Day and Joseph Dorman and Oren Rudavsky's Colliding Dreams, Soraya Roberts on Winona Ryder, Matt Thrift on Robert De Niro—and much, much more. » - David Hudson...
- 2/9/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Setsuko Hara, 1920 - 2015The great Japanese actress of Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring and Mikio Naruse's Repast passed away in September but the news has only recently been released. An indelible screen presence whose absence from movies has been felt every year since 1966.My MotherTop 10s: Cahiers du Cinéma + Sight & SoundFor us it's still too early to make judgement—we've hardly caught up with all of 2015's great cinema!—but the esteemed magazines of Cahiers du Cinéma and Sight & Sound have made their selections for the best of the year:Cahiers du Cinéma1. My Mother (Nanni Moretti)2. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)3. In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)4. The Smell of Us (Larry Clark)5. Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)6. Jauja (Lisandor Alonso)7. Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson)8. Arabian Nights...
- 12/2/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Following yesterday's top tens from J. Hoberman and John Waters in the "Best of 2015" issue of Artforum, we now have lists from three more critics. Both Nicole Brenez and Amy Taubin have Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie at the top of their tens, while James Quandt goes for Labour in a Single Shot, a project launched in 2011 by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki. The National Board of Review has named George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road the best film of year—and shown a lot of love, too, for Ridley Scott's The Martian. The Academy's announced that it's whittled 124 submissions in the race for the Documentary Feature Oscar down to a shortlist of 15. Plus, nominations for the 43rd Asifa-Hollywood Annie Awards and the Satellite Awards. » - David Hudson...
- 12/2/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Following yesterday's top tens from J. Hoberman and John Waters in the "Best of 2015" issue of Artforum, we now have lists from three more critics. Both Nicole Brenez and Amy Taubin have Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie at the top of their tens, while James Quandt goes for Labour in a Single Shot, a project launched in 2011 by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki. The National Board of Review has named George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road the best film of year—and shown a lot of love, too, for Ridley Scott's The Martian. The Academy's announced that it's whittled 124 submissions in the race for the Documentary Feature Oscar down to a shortlist of 15. Plus, nominations for the 43rd Asifa-Hollywood Annie Awards and the Satellite Awards. » - David Hudson...
- 12/2/2015
- Keyframe
Monday was International Women's Days, and to mark the occasion, Sight & Sound complied a list of "vital female voice(s) in film criticism":"Cinema would be a very different place without seminal figures like Iris Barry, Pauline Kael, Laura Mulvey and Susan Sontag. This collection is a reminder of their importance but it also looks beyond them too. Asking 25 writers and curators to each nominate a female critic and choose a piece of their writing has amassed a surprising array of different voices: from 1920s teenage gossip columnist Nerina Shute to the first regular broadsheet female film reviewer C.A. Lejeune, Sight & Sound’s august editor of 34 years Penelope Houston, zombie-loving trade reviewer Marjorie Bilbow and the feminist activist and author bell hooks, as well as unlikely cinema analysts like novelist Hilary Mantel."Also of note, the April issue of Sight & Sound is out now. The selection team that will...
- 3/11/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Edited by Adam Cook
Above: the incredible new issue of Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema is online now under the theme of "Manny Farber: Systems of Movement". Among the included pieces is a conversation on Farber between Kent Jones and Jean-Pierre Gorin. As a welcome break from the Best of 2014 overload, David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson continue their tradition of instead focusing their attention on the best films of the year...90 years ago:
"These lists are our way of calling attention to important silent films that some readers may have overlooked. In one case here we point out a largely forgotten film that deserves to be better known, in the hope that an archive will take the hint. With the proliferation of silent-film festivals, of DVD and Blu-ray releases with restored prints and supplemental material, and of TCM’s eclectic screenings of foreign and silent titles, there seems to be considerably...
Above: the incredible new issue of Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema is online now under the theme of "Manny Farber: Systems of Movement". Among the included pieces is a conversation on Farber between Kent Jones and Jean-Pierre Gorin. As a welcome break from the Best of 2014 overload, David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson continue their tradition of instead focusing their attention on the best films of the year...90 years ago:
"These lists are our way of calling attention to important silent films that some readers may have overlooked. In one case here we point out a largely forgotten film that deserves to be better known, in the hope that an archive will take the hint. With the proliferation of silent-film festivals, of DVD and Blu-ray releases with restored prints and supplemental material, and of TCM’s eclectic screenings of foreign and silent titles, there seems to be considerably...
- 12/31/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Desistfilm has gathered best-of-2014 lists from its contributors and editorial committee (including Nicole Brenez and Dana Linssen) and then run the numbers: 1. Lisandro Alonso's Jauja. 2. Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage. 3. Richard Linklater's Boyhood. 4. Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin. 5. Lav Diaz's From What Is Before. 6. David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars. 7. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. 8. Pedro Costa's Horse Money. 9. Sergei Losnitza's Maidan. And 10's a tie: Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York and Raúl Perrone's Favula. We're collecting more year-end lists from Salon and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/30/2014
- Keyframe
Desistfilm has gathered best-of-2014 lists from its contributors and editorial committee (including Nicole Brenez and Dana Linssen) and then run the numbers: 1. Lisandro Alonso's Jauja. 2. Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage. 3. Richard Linklater's Boyhood. 4. Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin. 5. Lav Diaz's From What Is Before. 6. David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars. 7. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Winter Sleep. 8. Pedro Costa's Horse Money. 9. Sergei Losnitza's Maidan. And 10's a tie: Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York and Raúl Perrone's Favula. We're collecting more year-end lists from Salon and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/30/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Nicole Brenez, Alain Guiraudie, Darezhan Omirbayev, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Joshua Oppenheimer, Aaron Cutler, Sean Baker, Lois Patiño, Diego Lerer, Denis Côte and Gabe Klinger are just a few of the many who have contributed best-of-2014 lists to Otros Cines. Roger Koza's counted the ballots and the top three are Pedro Costa's Horse Money, Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage, Lisandro Alonso's Jauja, Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan and Aleksey German's Hard to be a God. Meantime, FiveThirtyEight has surveyed 30 national publications and found that—no surprise here—Richard Linklater's Boyhood is the clear favorite. » - David Hudson...
- 12/27/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Nicole Brenez, Alain Guiraudie, Darezhan Omirbayev, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Kent Jones, Joshua Oppenheimer, Aaron Cutler, Sean Baker, Lois Patiño, Diego Lerer, Denis Côte and Gabe Klinger are just a few of the many who have contributed best-of-2014 lists to Otros Cines. Roger Koza's counted the ballots and the top three are Pedro Costa's Horse Money, Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage, Lisandro Alonso's Jauja, Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan and Aleksey German's Hard to be a God. Meantime, FiveThirtyEight has surveyed 30 national publications and found that—no surprise here—Richard Linklater's Boyhood is the clear favorite. » - David Hudson...
- 12/27/2014
- Keyframe
Previewing events happening in the next few days: Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995), new work by Péter Forgács and an exhibition curated by Paul Schrader featuring work by Sally Mann and David Salle in New York, Jesse McLean in Los Angeles, four films by Harun Farocki in Barcelona, work by Paul Sharits and Eric Baudelaire in Kassel and a symposium in Vienna on film in the museum with lectures by Nicole Brenez, Jacques Rancière and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/22/2014
- Keyframe
Previewing events happening in the next few days: Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995), new work by Péter Forgács and an exhibition curated by Paul Schrader featuring work by Sally Mann and David Salle in New York, Jesse McLean in Los Angeles, four films by Harun Farocki in Barcelona, work by Paul Sharits and Eric Baudelaire in Kassel and a symposium in Vienna on film in the museum with lectures by Nicole Brenez, Jacques Rancière and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/22/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In his continually eccentric series of extracurricular activities, Steven Soderbergh has posted a black and white version of Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. Here's what he has to say about why:
"So I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are. See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot—whether short or long—held for that exact length of time and placed in that order? Sounds like fun, right? It actually is. To me. Oh, and I’ve removed all sound and color from the film, apart from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the visual staging aspect. Wait, What? How Could You Do This? Well, I...
"So I want you to watch this movie and think only about staging, how the shots are built and laid out, what the rules of movement are, what the cutting patterns are. See if you can reproduce the thought process that resulted in these choices by asking yourself: why was each shot—whether short or long—held for that exact length of time and placed in that order? Sounds like fun, right? It actually is. To me. Oh, and I’ve removed all sound and color from the film, apart from a score designed to aid you in your quest to just study the visual staging aspect. Wait, What? How Could You Do This? Well, I...
- 10/1/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Some pretty significant viewing has appeared this week. Jonathan Rosenbaum and Kevin B. Lee have collaborated on an audiovisual essay about Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971); Nicole Brenez talks with Eric Hurtado and Marc Hurtado about the work that desistfilm has made available online; and Milena Kans examines Alejandro Jodorowsky's view of humans and animals in Fando and Lis (1968), El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973), Santa Sangre (1989) and The Rainbow Thief (1990). We also have news on upcoming work from Richard Linklater and David Fincher and we point to a lengthy conversation with David Lynch. » - David Hudson...
- 9/30/2014
- Keyframe
Some pretty significant viewing has appeared this week. Jonathan Rosenbaum and Kevin B. Lee have collaborated on an audiovisual essay about Jacques Rivette's Out 1: Noli Me Tangere (1971); Nicole Brenez talks with Eric Hurtado and Marc Hurtado about the work that desistfilm has made available online; and Milena Kans examines Alejandro Jodorowsky's view of humans and animals in Fando and Lis (1968), El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973), Santa Sangre (1989) and The Rainbow Thief (1990). We also have news on upcoming work from Richard Linklater and David Fincher and we point to a lengthy conversation with David Lynch. » - David Hudson...
- 9/30/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Richard Linklater’s 12-year project beats Ida, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Winter Sleep.
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood has been named the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, Fipresci.
The poll for the Fipresci Grand Prix 2014 - Best Film of the Year gathered votes from 553 members throughout the world.
In the first phase, participants nominated feature-length films that received their world premiere no earlier than July 1, 2013. This led to a final round between the four finalists: Boyhood by Richard Linklater, Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski, The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson, and Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
This is the first Linklater has won the prize, which has previously gone to Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, among others, since its establishment in 1999.
Boyhood will have a special screening at the San Sebastián Film Festival on Sept...
Richard Linklater’s Boyhood has been named the best film of the past year by the members of the International Federation of Film Critics, Fipresci.
The poll for the Fipresci Grand Prix 2014 - Best Film of the Year gathered votes from 553 members throughout the world.
In the first phase, participants nominated feature-length films that received their world premiere no earlier than July 1, 2013. This led to a final round between the four finalists: Boyhood by Richard Linklater, Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski, The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson, and Winter Sleep by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
This is the first Linklater has won the prize, which has previously gone to Michael Haneke, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jafar Panahi, Pedro Almodóvar, Jean-Luc Godard and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, among others, since its establishment in 1999.
Boyhood will have a special screening at the San Sebastián Film Festival on Sept...
- 9/5/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
During "The Noteworthy"'s three weeks on hiatus, a triptych of essential pieces by David Bordwell have appeared on his blog. One is a piece on the bridging of theory and practice in the cultural writings of Noël Carroll and others. The other two focus on the emergence of a new type of film criticism in the mid-20th century, signaled in particular by the great James Agee, Manny Farber, and Parker Tyler. Firstly, in what is already a sequel-article of sorts, Bordwell contextualizes the critical scene of the 1940s. Secondly, he hones in closer on Agee and his work:
"It’s terribly easy to be sentimental about Agee, and almost as easy to be hard on him. (Brutality, as Stroheim and Griffith knew, has its sentimental side.) But I think that reading him can do something rare in film criticism: He calls you to your best instincts. His dithering can be frustrating,...
"It’s terribly easy to be sentimental about Agee, and almost as easy to be hard on him. (Brutality, as Stroheim and Griffith knew, has its sentimental side.) But I think that reading him can do something rare in film criticism: He calls you to your best instincts. His dithering can be frustrating,...
- 2/26/2014
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Editor's Note: We're kicking 2014 off with a bit of a format change in this here column. We'll be consistently posting separate, self-contained news posts in the Notebook, so we're taking out the news section here (not that some things won't be somewhat newsy) and making this more of a freewheeling zone of new/old bits of film criticism, images, videos, and whatever else we feel is "noteworthy" on any given week (which, to be honest, is in the spirit of the initial concept). Oh, and Happy New Year, everyone!
Above: the official poster of the 64th Berlinale.
After scrupulously rounding up every notable end-of-year list (and surely there is more yet to come!), David Hudson has published his personal list of 2013's ten best films. Of course, a myriad other lists keep pouring in: Boris Nelepo's Top 25 Ben Sachs' Top 10 La Furia Umana's Top 10 (to go along with their new issue,...
Above: the official poster of the 64th Berlinale.
After scrupulously rounding up every notable end-of-year list (and surely there is more yet to come!), David Hudson has published his personal list of 2013's ten best films. Of course, a myriad other lists keep pouring in: Boris Nelepo's Top 25 Ben Sachs' Top 10 La Furia Umana's Top 10 (to go along with their new issue,...
- 1/1/2014
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
News.
The latest edition of La Furia Umana is now available in print, with some content online as well, and features a collection of pieces on Joseph Losey and Bertrand Bonello. Esteemed film critic Dave Kehr has been named the MoMA Adjunct Curator for Film. The Rome Film Festival is just a couple weeks away, and the competition (which will be presided over by this year's head of the jury, James Gray) has some exciting titles. I'm especially jealous of those who'll get to see Takashi Miike's brilliantly titled The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, which had an awesome teaser pop up recently. Out of competition it looks like there's an hour-long film from Miike as well, and Castello Cavalcanti, a new short from Wes Anderson.
Finds.
Above: the first trailer for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. A web exclusive piece from Sight & Sound: filmmakers Ben Rivers...
The latest edition of La Furia Umana is now available in print, with some content online as well, and features a collection of pieces on Joseph Losey and Bertrand Bonello. Esteemed film critic Dave Kehr has been named the MoMA Adjunct Curator for Film. The Rome Film Festival is just a couple weeks away, and the competition (which will be presided over by this year's head of the jury, James Gray) has some exciting titles. I'm especially jealous of those who'll get to see Takashi Miike's brilliantly titled The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji, which had an awesome teaser pop up recently. Out of competition it looks like there's an hour-long film from Miike as well, and Castello Cavalcanti, a new short from Wes Anderson.
Finds.
Above: the first trailer for Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel. A web exclusive piece from Sight & Sound: filmmakers Ben Rivers...
- 10/23/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
“If images don’t do anything in this culture,” I said, plunging on, “if they haven’t done anything, then why are we sitting here in the twilight of the twentieth century talking about them? And if they only do things after we have talked about them, then they aren’t doing them, we are. Therefore, if our criticism aspires to anything beyond soft-science, the efficacy of images must be the cause of criticism, and not its consequence—the subject of criticism and not its object. And this,” I concluded rather grandly, “is why I direct your attention to the language of visual affect—to the rhetoric of how things look—to the iconography of desire—in a word, to beauty!” I made a voilá gesture for punctuation, but to no avail. People were quietly filing out. —Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon.
“Originally, the embeddedness of an artwork in the...
“Originally, the embeddedness of an artwork in the...
- 8/5/2013
- by Uncas Blythe
- MUBI
A special section, ‘Anand Patwardhan: At Work’ devoted to the documentary filmmaker will be presented at the upcoming Cinema du Reel international documentary film festival in Paris (March 21 – 31, 2013).
Ten films by Patwardhan that have been curated by Nicole Brenez, a historian and professor of cinema specializing in avant-garde, will be screened under this section.
The festival will also host a masterclass with Anand Patwardhan.
Patwardhan was awarded the Special Jury prize in Cinema du réel 1986 for his film Bombay: Our City. He is well known for his documentaries on corruption, city slums, the caste system, injustices to women and the nuclear arms race.
The Retrospective is divided into seven segments, each representing the social / political cause Patwardhan has made films on: The Political Organisation Front, The Working Class Front, Trilogy of Fundamentalism 1 (Secularism), Trilogy of Fundamentalism 2 (Nationalism), Trilogy of Fundamentalism 3 (Feminism), The Anti-Nuclear Front and The Untouchables Front.
Films...
Ten films by Patwardhan that have been curated by Nicole Brenez, a historian and professor of cinema specializing in avant-garde, will be screened under this section.
The festival will also host a masterclass with Anand Patwardhan.
Patwardhan was awarded the Special Jury prize in Cinema du réel 1986 for his film Bombay: Our City. He is well known for his documentaries on corruption, city slums, the caste system, injustices to women and the nuclear arms race.
The Retrospective is divided into seven segments, each representing the social / political cause Patwardhan has made films on: The Political Organisation Front, The Working Class Front, Trilogy of Fundamentalism 1 (Secularism), Trilogy of Fundamentalism 2 (Nationalism), Trilogy of Fundamentalism 3 (Feminism), The Anti-Nuclear Front and The Untouchables Front.
Films...
- 3/2/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens is hosting a retrospective on Raya Martin, running October 19 - 27, 2012.
Above: Raya Martin. Photo by Buccino de Ocampo.
Raya Martin’s multiplicity as a key filmmaker in experimental cinema in the Philippines remains a complex subject to undertake. His radical and polarizing films earned him not only a reputation as a visionary of the film form, but also a mask of an aesthete, an art-for-art’s sake director detached from the social paradigm of Philippine cinema. These assertions led me to reassess Raya Martin’s career path to look into his films in terms of his varied style, his appropriations as a result of his post-colonial inquiries; and to position him within the ideological paradigm of Philippine cinema.
Raya Martin’s filmography can be divided into three modes based on style: documentary (Island at the End of the World [2004], Autohystoria [2007], Next Attraction...
Above: Raya Martin. Photo by Buccino de Ocampo.
Raya Martin’s multiplicity as a key filmmaker in experimental cinema in the Philippines remains a complex subject to undertake. His radical and polarizing films earned him not only a reputation as a visionary of the film form, but also a mask of an aesthete, an art-for-art’s sake director detached from the social paradigm of Philippine cinema. These assertions led me to reassess Raya Martin’s career path to look into his films in terms of his varied style, his appropriations as a result of his post-colonial inquiries; and to position him within the ideological paradigm of Philippine cinema.
Raya Martin’s filmography can be divided into three modes based on style: documentary (Island at the End of the World [2004], Autohystoria [2007], Next Attraction...
- 10/26/2012
- by Adrian Mendizabal
- MUBI
News.
A new issue of one the most essential film publications, La Furia Umana, is now available online. As always, alongside a rich collection of disparate texts, the issue has separate dossiers devoted to specific filmmakers, including ones on René Vautier (edited by Nicole Brenez) and Ida Lupino with Claire Denis. The amount of must-read coverage is daunting: included, too, are homages to Chris Marker and Stephen Dwoskin, a new video by David Phelps, and much more to explore.
In this issue, our pride and joy is to be found in the monograph-length dossier on Hollywood auteur William A. Wellman, a dossier edited by Gina Telaroli and Phelps. Our editor Daniel Kasman has contributed anoverview to Wellman's filmography; Telaroli has an incredible image-based piece on Good-bye, My Lady (alongside "scraps" and "findings" pointing the way for even more coverage of this filmmaker's wide oeuvre), filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has a new piece,...
A new issue of one the most essential film publications, La Furia Umana, is now available online. As always, alongside a rich collection of disparate texts, the issue has separate dossiers devoted to specific filmmakers, including ones on René Vautier (edited by Nicole Brenez) and Ida Lupino with Claire Denis. The amount of must-read coverage is daunting: included, too, are homages to Chris Marker and Stephen Dwoskin, a new video by David Phelps, and much more to explore.
In this issue, our pride and joy is to be found in the monograph-length dossier on Hollywood auteur William A. Wellman, a dossier edited by Gina Telaroli and Phelps. Our editor Daniel Kasman has contributed anoverview to Wellman's filmography; Telaroli has an incredible image-based piece on Good-bye, My Lady (alongside "scraps" and "findings" pointing the way for even more coverage of this filmmaker's wide oeuvre), filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has a new piece,...
- 10/8/2012
- by Notebook
- MUBI
News.
The second issue of Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu's film journal Lola has arrived—or has begun to, rather—with a new staggered distribution of content. Shambu dishes some exposition on the changes and details the content at his blog, which include contributions from Nicole Brenez and Chantal Akerman. From horror to hockey? In one of the stranger director + project announcements of late, the underrated Rob Zombie is going to be making Broad Street Bullies, a sports movie about the notoriously tough 1970s Philadelphia Flyers. A hometown plug from me for the Pacific Cinémathèque here in Vancouver, which is currently raising money by selling limited edition postcards featuring designs from the great Steve Chow, who was featured in Adrian Curry's Movie Poster of the Week column last fall. Donate $10 and you'll receive 6 of Chow's program guide designs. Along with the gorgeous posters detailed in Curry's article, Chow is also...
The second issue of Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu's film journal Lola has arrived—or has begun to, rather—with a new staggered distribution of content. Shambu dishes some exposition on the changes and details the content at his blog, which include contributions from Nicole Brenez and Chantal Akerman. From horror to hockey? In one of the stranger director + project announcements of late, the underrated Rob Zombie is going to be making Broad Street Bullies, a sports movie about the notoriously tough 1970s Philadelphia Flyers. A hometown plug from me for the Pacific Cinémathèque here in Vancouver, which is currently raising money by selling limited edition postcards featuring designs from the great Steve Chow, who was featured in Adrian Curry's Movie Poster of the Week column last fall. Donate $10 and you'll receive 6 of Chow's program guide designs. Along with the gorgeous posters detailed in Curry's article, Chow is also...
- 6/20/2012
- MUBI
On the occasion of Anthology Film Archive's retrospective on Jean Epstein and the publishing of a new anthology on the filmmaker edited by Sarah Keller and Jason N. Paul, Jean Epstein: Critical Essays and New Translations, we are here reprinting the essay by Nicole Brenez, "Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema 'Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt.'" The anthology is published by Amsterdam University Press and available in the Us and Canada from the University of Chicago Press. Many thanks to Amsterdam University Press, University of Chicago Press, Magdalena Hernas, Sarah Keller and Nicole Brenez.
Jean Epstein disappeared over half a century ago, in 1953. Yet, few filmmakers are still as alive today. At the time, a radio broadcast announced the following obituary: “Jean Epstein has just died. This name may not mean much to many of those who turn to the screens to provide them with the weekly dose of emotion they need.
Jean Epstein disappeared over half a century ago, in 1953. Yet, few filmmakers are still as alive today. At the time, a radio broadcast announced the following obituary: “Jean Epstein has just died. This name may not mean much to many of those who turn to the screens to provide them with the weekly dose of emotion they need.
- 5/30/2012
- MUBI
Right now is not a bad time for admirers of Robert Bresson. A traveling retrospective has made its way across numerous cities, and people who'd never gotten a chance to glimpse Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971) now get to watch it on the big screen in a proper print. Furthermore, the critical and cinephilic culture surrounding Bresson's work is probably more alive now than it has been in a long time. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than the wider interest in (and affection for) the director's late color films, earlier misunderstood and dismissed in some quarters as odd aberrations which lacked the spiritual clarity or asceticism of the black-and-white work. It's for this reason that film culture can welcome a second, revised edition of James Quandt's crucial anthology, Robert Bresson.
There is simply no more essential book of material on Bresson to be found in the English language, unless...
There is simply no more essential book of material on Bresson to be found in the English language, unless...
- 4/9/2012
- MUBI
Nice cover for the new issue of Cahiers du Cinéma, which features a collection of articles (all of them offline) on Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt. There's a new Brooklyn Rail out as well, and we've already noted Monica Westin's interview with Geoff Dyer in today's roundup on Andrei Tarkovsky and Paul Felten's review of Damsels in Distress in another roundup on Whit Stillman. In terms of strictly film-related pieces (and let's hope you don't confine yourself to those!), that leaves Troy Swain's graphic celebration of the upcoming series at Anthology Film Archives, The Films of Carmelo Bene, running April 26 through 29, and Donal Foreman's interview with Nicole Brenez.
The occasion for the interview was the series Brenez curated for Anthology last month, Internationalist Cinema for Today (there was a roundup at the time) and Foreman writes a terrific introduction:
In an essay on Adorno's relationship with cinema, Nicole Brenez...
The occasion for the interview was the series Brenez curated for Anthology last month, Internationalist Cinema for Today (there was a roundup at the time) and Foreman writes a terrific introduction:
In an essay on Adorno's relationship with cinema, Nicole Brenez...
- 4/4/2012
- MUBI
Via The Seventh Art
"Made in Argentina in 1968, The Hour of the Furnaces (La hora de los hornos) is the film that established the paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema," argues Nicole Brenez in Sight & Sound. "'For the first time,' said one of its writers, Octavio Getino, 'we demonstrated that it was possible to produce and distribute a film in a non-liberated country with the specific aim of contributing to the political process of liberation.' The film is not just an act of courage, it's also a formal synthesis, a theoretical essay and the origin of several contemporary image practices." The New Inquiry points us to the film on YouTube as well as Getino and Fernando Solanas's essay, "Towards a Third Cinema."
In other news. "The BFI has scored a considerable coup, revealing that it has uncovered a copy of what is not only the earliest surviving film...
"Made in Argentina in 1968, The Hour of the Furnaces (La hora de los hornos) is the film that established the paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema," argues Nicole Brenez in Sight & Sound. "'For the first time,' said one of its writers, Octavio Getino, 'we demonstrated that it was possible to produce and distribute a film in a non-liberated country with the specific aim of contributing to the political process of liberation.' The film is not just an act of courage, it's also a formal synthesis, a theoretical essay and the origin of several contemporary image practices." The New Inquiry points us to the film on YouTube as well as Getino and Fernando Solanas's essay, "Towards a Third Cinema."
In other news. "The BFI has scored a considerable coup, revealing that it has uncovered a copy of what is not only the earliest surviving film...
- 3/10/2012
- MUBI
Nicole Brenez by Alexia Villard
Nicole Brenez is in New York and she's very, very busy. This evening, she's delivering a talk at Columbia University on Recent Developments in Political Cinema (with a response by Kent Jones), followed by another tomorrow afternoon, "An Incandescent Atmosphere": Internationalist Cinema for Today. Then it's off to Anthology Film Archives to launch the series Internationalist Cinema for Today, running through March 11. Off again to Microscope Gallery to introduce a screening of selected works by filmmaker, poet, musician Marc Hurtado (from the group Etant Donnés). And then on Saturday, she'll introduce two more programs in the Anthology series.
Cinespect's Ryan Wells has asked Nicole Brenez to explain the concept of Internationalist cinema and the ensuing interview's an engaging read, but for brevity's sake, I'm turning to her introduction to the Anthology series:
it is a way to move beyond the ego and think of others,...
Nicole Brenez is in New York and she's very, very busy. This evening, she's delivering a talk at Columbia University on Recent Developments in Political Cinema (with a response by Kent Jones), followed by another tomorrow afternoon, "An Incandescent Atmosphere": Internationalist Cinema for Today. Then it's off to Anthology Film Archives to launch the series Internationalist Cinema for Today, running through March 11. Off again to Microscope Gallery to introduce a screening of selected works by filmmaker, poet, musician Marc Hurtado (from the group Etant Donnés). And then on Saturday, she'll introduce two more programs in the Anthology series.
Cinespect's Ryan Wells has asked Nicole Brenez to explain the concept of Internationalist cinema and the ensuing interview's an engaging read, but for brevity's sake, I'm turning to her introduction to the Anthology series:
it is a way to move beyond the ego and think of others,...
- 3/1/2012
- MUBI
Looking back at 2011 on what films moved and impressed us it becomes more and more clear—to me at least—that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, our end of year poll, now an annual tradition, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2011—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2011 to create a unique double feature. Many contributors chose their favorites of 2011, some picked out-of-the-way gems, others made some pretty strange connections—and some frankly just want to create a kerfuffle. All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2011 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative...
- 1/5/2012
- MUBI
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