Andrew Sarris, auteur theory proponent in the U.S., died earlier today at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, apparently of complications caused by a stomach virus. Sarris, who was 83, was…
-
The Tree of Life 2011 with Brad Pitt. Terrence Malick’s 1950s-set family drama The Tree of Life, which stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, and Jessica Chastain, was perhaps the most…
-
Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. One of this year’s AFI FEST offerings along with “fantasy soccer” by way of Looking for Eric, Viggo Mortensen’s dystopian reality in…
-
Rashomon effect revisited: Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo in Akira Kurosawa classic. Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Rashomon, which officially introduced Japanese cinema to the world at large, will be the…
-
Sex education film The Irresponsibles. The British Film Institute’s “The Joy of Sex Education” – to be presented at London’s bfi Southbank – consists of a series of British-made sex…
-
AFI FEST Awards’ top winner was Lee Isaac Chung’s Rwandan genocide film Munyurangabo. In the photo: Jenny Lund, Nash Edgerton, Lauren Greenfield, Jeffrey Schwarz, Andreas Mol Dalsgaard, Michael Addis. Lee…
-
‘Porgy and Bess’: Rare movie version of George Gershwin musical New York screening The Samuel Goldwyn-produced, Otto Preminger-directed 1959 musical Porgy and Bess “was a much-touted, much-seen and in some…
-
A restored print of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 Soviet masterpiece Battleship Potemkin will be screened at next year’s Berlin Film Festival.
“Chick flick movies” vs. women’s pictures: Ruth Chatterton in The Lady of Secrets with Robert Allen. ‘Chick flick movies’ vs. women’s picture Ruth Chatterton knew better than most how to…
Editor and documentary filmmaker Helen van Dongen died at age 97 on Sept. 28. As an editor, van Dongen worked with the likes of Joris Ivens and Robert Flaherty, and…