Richness, Intensity and Gesture: An Interview with Adrian Martin
A word of thanks to Adrian for this fun and meaty guest post on film criticism and film culture. The
Favorites 2007
Favorite new films (alphabetically): At Sea (Peter Hutton, USA) Black Book (Paul Verhoeven, Holland) Fengming, A Chinese Memoir (Wang Bing,
Abbas Kiarostami’s Early Films
Last weekend, at MoMA, I caught about a dozen early—and rare—films by Abbas Kiarostami. I saw these films with Zach
Cahiers du Cinema
There’s a terrific essay by Emilie Bickerton on Cahiers du Cinema—the best-known film magazine in the world—in a recent issue
Six Types Of Documentary
Here’s my single favorite thing about blogging: being able to educate oneself in public. Going through this process—trying to move
Toronto Film Festival–“Three Times”
Hou Hsiao-Hsien, from Taiwan, is probably my favorite living filmmaker, and so his new one, Three Times, was unsurprisingly the
Toronto International Film Festival 2005
Faves: Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan) L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium) A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, Canada) Caché
Toronto Film Festival–“L’Intrus”
And now I arrive with some trepidation at the most vivid, confident, musical, beautiful and baffling of the films I’ve