Little Fugitive director Morris Engel was the post-WWII ‘Father of American Independent Cinema,’ inspiring John Cassavetes and the French New Wave.
Jean-Luc Godard in his youthful days: Greek debt crisis solution? Jean-Luc Godard solution for the Greek debt crisis: ‘Therefore’ copyright payments A few years ago, Nouvelle Vague filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard,…
Les Misérables trailer is out. (Please scroll down.) You can hear Anne Hathaway’s miserable Fantine singing “I dreamed that love would never die … I had a dream my life…
British street gangs top San Sebastian Film Festival: Neds directed by Peter Mullan. Peter Mullan’s Glasgow-set drama Neds, about a distraught teenager who joins a street gang in the early…
Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Killers. June 8 update: This past weekend, the 2010 North American box office was down 24 percent from the equivalent weekend last year. Memorial Day weekend…
Of Gods and Men, directed by Xavier Beauvois. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a dreamlike Thai drama about a man dying of kidney failure that…
Gene Tierney in Laura with Clifton Webb: Classic 1944 film noir. Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, and Clifton Webb, Otto Preminger’s classic 1944 film noir Laura, one of the best…
Joan Crawford, Conrad Veidt in George Cukor’s A Woman’s Face (1941). The first TCM Classic Film Festival has just come to a close, but Turner Classic Movies has already given…
Alfred Hitchcock British films: The Lady Vanishes with Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood, and Michael Redgrave. On Nov. 27–28, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (website) will present the…
Judy Garland in A Star Is Born: Restored Classics. Turner Classic Movies’ first-ever TCM Classic Film Festival, which will be held on April 22–25 in Hollywood, will feature the world…
Is the 1960 nouvelle vague classic Breathless vastly overrated? Jean-Paul Belmondo + Jean Seberg star in Jean-Luc Godard’s influential noir homage.
With 4, Ilya Khrzhanovsky dares audiences to keep watching his overlong, fragmented, and resolutely dreary journey into … where exactly?
‘Risqué’ sex research movie + adulatory John Kerry Vietnam War documentary + Crash title clash at eclectic and contentious Toronto Film Festival.
Jean-Luc Godard. Jean-Luc Godard, Eli Wallach (right), Kevin Brownlow, and Francis Ford Coppola have been chosen as the recipients of the 2010 special Academy Awards. Godard, Brownlow, and Wallach will…
Outside the Law 2010 with Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila. Directed by Rachid Bouchareb. ‘Outside the Law’ 2010 Cannes controversy: French right-wingers & war veterans irked Rachid Bouchareb’s Outside the Law…
Made in USA: Jean-Luc Godard effort stars Anna Karina. When the young cinephiles who would later spawn the French New Wave attended screenings of Hollywood films at the Cinémathèque Française…