Film
David Thomson on Films: A Requiem to an Unjustly Forgotten Filmmaker
In a recent article published in Sight & Sound just days after the death of Theo Angelopoulos, the director is quoted: “The only place I really feel at home is in a car next to a driver. I don’t drive myself, but I find the simple act of passing through landscapes very moving. The way I look at the world on my various travels is what essentially defines my filmmaking.” READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classics: American Silent Film (July 1, 1978)
The Ambiguous Future of 3D Movies
It was in 1985 that the German film director Wim Wenders first saw the Pina Bausch dance company. He later admitted that he had had to be dragged to the event by a girlfriend. Though a lover of many types of music, Wenders was one of those who believed he simply didn’t get ballet or modern dance. But after a few moments of the performance, he was on the edge of his seat, so moved he was crying. He felt his life had been altered. READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classics: ‘The Great Gatsby’ (April 13, 1974)
When I saw the 1949 film of The Great Gatsby, the only other person in the screening room was Edmund Wilson(whom I didn’t know). Afterward, as he left, a smiling Paramount publicity man asked him how he had liked the picture. “Not very much, I’m afraid,” said Wilson,and kept walking to the elevator. The Paramount man looked less disappointed than betrayed, as if saying,“We’ve gone to the, trouble of making a whole movie out of your friend’s book and you don’t even appreciate it!” READ MORE >>
Why Lisbeth Salander Beats Margaret Thatcher
TNR Film Classics: ‘The Age of Innocence’ (October 18, 1993)
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: A Search, a Research
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia House of Pleasures READ MORE >>
TNR Film Classics: ‘All About Eve’ (November 6, 1950)
Once a year, Hollywood relaxes the lollypop diet on which it sustains a large but jaded public, and serves up one dish of acidulous sophistication. Or to be more precise, about once a year Joseph Mankiewicz at Twentieth Century-Fox does this under the indulgent eye of Darryl F. Zanuck. The last chef’s special was Letter to Three Wives; the new one is All About Eve, the bitchiest fabrication since Mrs. Luce’s The Women. READ MORE >>
