In a piecing together of forgotten wartime events, Waltz with Bashir uses animation to reconstruct a supposed reality as a strange dream. Director and protagonist Ari Folman, who served in the Israeli army in Lebanon during the summer of 1982, seeks clarity of his distorted memories through a series of ...
Film Forum - Barton Fink – January 29 I suppose there could be no better self-proclaimed champion of the proletariat and vehicle of Hollywood satire than a New York playwright. You will find exactly that sentiment in Barton Fink the man. In Barton Fink the movie, that man’s piety and pedantry ...
From Shakespeare and Tragedy to Cowboys and Soviets
If you want to escape the December doldrums to a far-off place near the Mediterranean, where everything outdoors finds a place in the sun and everything indoors seems caressed by a sea breeze, then perhaps a viewing of Purple Noon should be on the horizon.
"It’s just in us all, this film," said poet and essayist Susan Howe at the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s recent Print Screen event. The film Howe was referring to was Andrei Tarkovsky’s masterpiece of memory, The Mirror, which screened after Howe read a passage based on the film from ...
Bulletin Board: A roundup of screenings, discussions, and other film-related events Desk Set (1957) New-York Historical Society Justice in Film Series December 4 at 7:00 pm Screened as part of the Bernard and Irene Schwartz Classic Film Series, Desk Set, with its legendary duo of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, provides a point of ...
Bulletin Board: A roundup of screenings, discussions, and other film-related events STAFF FAVORITE: The Forbidden Room – Videology – November 27 8:00 PM Guy Maddin’s new fantastical film, The Forbidden Room, comes with a warning from the co-director himself: “Stay safe and enjoy!” Set up as a sort of demented matryoshka doll, ...
On June 18th, 1940, General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French Forces, gave the first of what would become one of the most important speeches in French history. Broadcast over France via BBC Radio in London, de Gaulle’s famous Appeal of 18 June urged the people of ...
“To Save and Project” at the MoMA; “Lonely Places: Film Noir and the American Landscape” at the Museum of the Moving Image
