The latest product of cinematic Naziphilia is about a secret Nazi colony on the Moon. And you can be a part of the $5 million production.
April 25, 2008 – 10:00 am
The night before Sony Pictures Classics planned to open Errol Morris’ Abu Ghraib doc Standard Operating Procedure in two theaters the Tribeca Film Festival hosted a screening of the film, followed by a conversation between Morris and Jarhead author Anthony Swofford.
Beat to the festival circuit by over a year by Rory Kennedy’s Ghosts of Abu [...]
Celebrate the epitome of French cinema cool as Jean-Paul Belmondo kicks Alain Delon’s ass.
The above montage of scenes from Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, set to two songs by Nina Simone, was posted on Vinyl is Heavy by Stephen Boone. I’ll let him explain:
The idea is that Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is two films. The first is about two lovers dealing with the terrible, [...]
March 31, 2008 – 11:31 am
Superhero Movie may have tanked, but that’s just because everyone’s waiting for the release of Nazi Movie (aka Hitler Kaput!).
Ellen Burstyn and James Cromwell have been hired to play Barbara Bush Sr and George H.W. Bush in Oliver Stone’s George W. Bush drama, which is currently being called W. All along, the trades have been saying that the goal is to get this sucker distributed around the time of the November elections; today’s Variety [...]
Today in Cultural Equivalency: testing the theory that MTV’s reality soap is a distant ancestor of films like RED DESERT and L’ECLISSE.
March 25, 2008 – 10:00 am
New Directors/New Films, The Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual Spring retrospective of hits, overlooked gems and conversation starters from the recent festival circuit, opens tomorrow night with Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Frozen River. I won’t be covering the series extensively this year, partially because I was in Austin when the press screenings started [...]
The early Eighties were a great time for feminist films (9 to 5 in 1980; The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981; A Question of Silence in 1982), so by 1983, Mr. Mom must have come off as a totally backwards step.
March 21, 2008 – 10:07 am
Fassbinder’s ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL and ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, the Douglas Sirk film that inspired it, sit right next to each other in alphabetical order on the Criterion shelf. I *had* to buy them both.
