February 12, 2008 – 4:05 pm
THERE WILL BE BLOOD may be the best film in competition in Berlin, but it probably won’t win.
February 8, 2008 – 2:00 pm
I made a New Year’s Resolution to watch a lot of Fassbinder movies and write about them. First up: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT.
January 29, 2008 – 12:54 pm
Sometimes I just want a movie about identity to really be more than it seems to be. And maybe The Bourne Ultimatum is about more than we think.
January 29, 2008 – 11:00 am
Benten Films‘ second superbly-packaged DVD set (they previously released Joe Swanberg’s LOL) hits stores today. The set includes two films directed by Aaron Katz: Dance Party, USA, a kind of correction to Larry Clark’s KIDS, set in Portland and starring exquisitely natural local teens; and the Independent Spirit Award-nominated Quiet City, which I previously [...]
January 11, 2008 – 2:49 pm
In a two part series beginning at the Criterion blog and continuing on his own site, Eric Skillman breaks down part of the process of designing Criterion’s recently-released edition of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (which was purchased for me as a Christmas gift, but which has still not arrived via Amazon, much to my [...]
December 7, 2007 – 4:01 pm
You know, so you can be social, but not have to look at or smell anyone. Or be looked at or smelled?
November 16, 2007 – 11:00 am
How to sell a tiny movie with a lot of sex talk, but no sex?
October 23, 2007 – 10:07 am
Inc.com [via Hacking Netflix] recently asked five entrepreneurs what they would suggest to help Netflix win their on-going battle against Blockbuster once and for all. Let’s ignore, for a minute, the fact that it seems really weird to ask a handful of confirmed capitalists what they would do to help a single corporation to secure [...]
August 28, 2007 – 1:36 pm
Joe Swanberg’s second film hits DVD today. Think of it as a little slice of the New Talkies festival, to go.
