August 12, 2008 – 5:25 pm
Via CNN via Anne Thompson comes the full lineup for The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, the film festival thrown by recent Oscar winner Tilda Swinton and guest programmed by her and Joel Coen, starting this Friday in “Nairn in the North East of Scotland, a seaside town where Chaplin used to holiday and which [...]
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, [...]
Plus: Harlan Ellison, Scarlett Johansson, and bits of True/False and SXSW via YouTube.
February 8, 2008 – 5:30 pm
SXSW and True/False got their lineups, Obama got ScarJo-ed, and THE BROWN BUNNY got a video game spin-off (if only in our dreams).
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 15, 2008 – 6:04 pm
Nikal Saval has an admittedly cranky but masterful takedown of I’m Not There at N + 1. Calling Todd Haynes’ pastiche the Worst Movie of 2007, Saval scratches particularly aggressively at Haynes’ habitual referencing and naked larceny: “Haynes is drowning in his film school education, just as his audience is drowning in allusions, and not [...]
Interview with Christopher Smith director of Severance, a fall-down-funny-then-cover-your-eyes slasher flick opening in theaters tonight. The FilmCouch group reloads discussion on what makes a villain from FilmCouch 18, and somehow draws a connection between American Beauty and Star Wars. A 33 year old German film is more relevant today than ever–Ali: Fear Eats the Soul [...]
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