Video of the day. First Full Trailer for David Fincher's "The Social Network"
Video of the day. New Film by Kenneth Anger
Image of the day. Marilyn Monroe
Miriam Bale
The Game
David Cairns
The Forgotten: The Filth
The Forgotten: Lady Killer
The Forgotten: Dance of Death
The Forgotten: One Way Street
The Forgotten: Swift Boat Veterans
Doug Cummings
The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival Shifts Direction
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Independence Day"
Movie Poster of the Week: The Movie Posters of Norman Rockwell
Movie Poster of the Week: "Life During Wartime"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Betty Blue"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Summer Holiday"
Doug Dibbern
Jimmy Stewart: Angel of Death
Philippe Garrel
Quote of the day
Leo Goldsmith
Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 2: Work Forces
S. Hahn
Telling Pictures
Darren Hughes
The Details: "Les rendez-vous d'Anna" (Akerman, 1978)
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day.
Video of the day. New Film by Kenneth Anger
Image of the day. Marilyn Monroe
Miriam Bale
The Game
David Cairns
The Forgotten: The Filth
The Forgotten: Lady Killer
The Forgotten: Dance of Death
The Forgotten: One Way Street
The Forgotten: Swift Boat Veterans
Doug Cummings
The 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival Shifts Direction
Adrian Curry
Movie Poster of the Week: "Independence Day"
Movie Poster of the Week: The Movie Posters of Norman Rockwell
Movie Poster of the Week: "Life During Wartime"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Betty Blue"
Movie Poster of the Week: "Summer Holiday"
Doug Dibbern
Jimmy Stewart: Angel of Death
Philippe Garrel
Quote of the day
Leo Goldsmith
Robert Flaherty Seminar 2010, Part 2: Work Forces
S. Hahn
Telling Pictures
Darren Hughes
The Details: "Les rendez-vous d'Anna" (Akerman, 1978)
Daniel Kasman
Image of the Day.
- 8/1/2010
- MUBI
There is a tendency among certain cinephiles (an understandable one given the defensive they are so frequently put upon by ostensibly normal people who will on occasion drop pithy idiocies along the lines of "I don't like black and white movies" and expect to be congratulated for that) to be a trifle overprotective of the cinema's past, to the extent of seeming to do special pleading for anything that's old. And of course, the old do deserve special treatment; everything that can be preserved ought to be preserved; film history is neither a closed circuit or even a vaguely closed book and hence there's nothing in it that ought to be dismissed.
But this is not to say that everything the past brings us is actually, you know, good. Or, for that matter, classic. It certainly depends on what your definition of "classic" is. I value the two films on...
But this is not to say that everything the past brings us is actually, you know, good. Or, for that matter, classic. It certainly depends on what your definition of "classic" is. I value the two films on...
- 7/27/2010
- MUBI
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