Anthony Mann — Preamble I was about to do my first post on Anthony Mann’s noirs, when I came across something startling on the interweb. Mann’s noirs, made as B-pictures in the late 1940s,  are less well known than his Westerns[…]

‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ left me outraged. Through some convoluted process I can’t myself divine, Michael Moore was able in mid-2004 to release — as in show in multiplexes worldwide — a film criticizing the entire course of US […]

The British Film Festival is something I’ll return to after I’ve visited Cambridge’s own this weekend, but meantime Edinburgh has announced this year’s line-up. I’ve gone the last two years but can’t really afford […]

I watched four films in the course of a sickie yesterday, so I’m not about to hand in my cinephile badge and gun, but the six-bleedin’-hour-long ‘Best of Youth’ has defeated my scheduling. I just can’t find two evenings […]

‘If…’ man in ‘Scottish’ claims. No doubt the Bern film festival claims Jean-Luc Godard as Switzerland’s own, but jeez…[…]

Thanks to NTK for this preview:
‘… watch out for http://tv.cream.org/ staffers largely escaping the blame in WHO KILLED SATURDAY NIGHT TV? (9.50pm, Sat, C4), a clearly rhetorical inquiry considering that very evening’s entertainment[…]

I’m not a driver, but op-ed writers shifting into film critic mode — as happens a lot around films like ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ — seem to me to emit that bad-gear-change ‘crunk’ sound so familiar from my few disast[…]

Notes towards a working definition of Film-Rockism — 1 [reg req’d, I think]
‘People employed to write about film are like cinema punters in one respect: in a time of deluge they will cling to anything buoyant that passes their way. […]

Tough Love
‘Pialat may well have provided the source code for the elliptical realism that’s become de rigueur for an entire subsequent generation (Desplechin, Denis, Assayas, Breillat, Cantet, Dumont, etc.).’
Cedric Kahn, director […]