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Chabrol's Quietly Savage War on Complacency
By Michael Fox "The murderously genteel Claude Chabrol has been compared to Alfred Hitchcock by so many critics, capsule biographers, trailer producers and pressbook writers that the label "France's...
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Blissfully Ours: A Talk With Apichatpong Weerasethakul
By Jonathan Marlow "Mysterious Object at Noon, the title of his first feature, applies to his entire project," J. Hoberman once wrote of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Jonathan Marlow talks to the...
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Les Blank: Another Cup
By Jonathan MarlowOn the occasion of the U.S. Premiere of Les Blank.s latest documentary, All in This Tea, at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Jonathan Marlow spoke with the remarkably...
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Guillermo del Toro: Ever the Romantic, Never Ironic
By David D'Arcy"They're not ironic," Guillermo Del Toro says of his films. "Not even a thing like Blade II, not even a thing like Hellboy. I believe in these things. I love these things. I'm not being...
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Melville's Army of Shadows
By Sean Axmaker "The ultimate cult auteur."Jean-Pierre Melville is surely the ultimate cult auteur in the French cinema. Spiritual godfather of the French New Wave (Jean-Luc Godard paid tribute to...
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Peter Cowie's Revolution
By Sean AxmakerThe author of over 30 books on films and filmmakers, the founder and editor of The International Film Guide for over 40 years before his retirement, and the editor of the Tantivy Press...
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Hanif Kureishi and the Birth of Venus
By David D'Arcy"What distinguishes Venus is that it strips the May-December clichéo the most basic equation, and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi isn't one to take the power of sex lightly," writes Nick...
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Riffing with Mike Nelson
Interviewed By Craig Phillips In the not too distant past, Mike Nelson was host of the long-running cult TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000, which had run for years on cable.s Comedy Central...
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Amos Gitai: In the Free Zone
By Caveh ZahediFilmmaker Caveh Zahedi (who interviewedHenry Jaglom awhile back to very engaging affect) talked with Israeli director Amos Gitai, who has made the personal political repeatedly in his...
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Mark Savage & the D.I.Y. Aesthetic
By Jeffrey M. AndersonAustralian-born Mark Savage, 44, is a true D.I.Y. filmmaker, having begun making scads of short films while in his teens. He eventually graduated to features, shot on the cheap...
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Duck You Sucker: a.k.a. A Fistful of Dynamite
Sergio Leone's largely neglected oddball socio-political Western Duck You Sucker had been chopped to bits in initial release but gets a new life in a restored DVD out today. The film starred Rod...
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Catching Up with Christoffer Boe
By Sean AxmakerIn Christopher Boe's Allegro [official site], a world acclaimed concert pianist (played by Ulrich Thomsen) is formally invited to reclaim his lost past. You see, it's preserved in an...
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In the Skies with Luc Besson and Rie Rasmussen
By John Esther Considering the films he has written, directed and/or produced, it's not easy to see why Luc Besson and his film, Angela-A, were invited to this year's Sundance Film Festival. This is...
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A Conversation with Adrienne Shelly
By Sean Axmaker Adrienne Shelly blossomed onto the indie film scene with her 1989 screen debut in Hal Hartley's debut feature The Unbelievable Truth. In the succeeding years, the diminutive, red-headed...
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All 2007 Oscar Winners on DVD: Now and Later
When are all the Oscar-nominated films coming out on DVD, you ask? One step ahead of ya. Here's a list of all the films nominated for Oscars for 2006, both winners and runners-up at the 2007 Academy...
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