Jean-Claude Van Damme brings back his own ’80s action hero, and he deserves the same spotlight as all the other character comebacks.
Filmmakers Philippe Garrel and Kelly Reichardt are subjecting their new films to an unusually bright spotlight at Cannes. Can the movies handle it?
La Vie Moderne, playing here on the Un Certain Regard sidebar, is the third documentary portrait of a group of rural French dairy farmers that Raymond Depardon has made this decade, and as such, comparisons between Depardon’s overall project and Michael Apted’s 7 Up series are not unapt. But where Apted’s seven films across forty [...]
Twitch has linked to a Spanish-language interview with Nacho Vigalondos, in which the Timecrimes director says David Cronenberg is in the running to direct the English-language remake of his time travel film–-that is, since Mario Bava is not available. Vigalondos also says Timothy J. Sexton, one of the writers of Children of Men, is writing [...]
The German film is finding a second life on YouTube.
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!).
