Here are six gifts for cinephiles that require little effort with the potential for massive hugs. Unless you’re not a hugger, then expect a tremendous thank you (emoji optional).
Film
Rainer Fassbinder Retrospective (Nearly) Over At The American Cinematheque
What a pleasure it has been to wallow in the 16-film Fassbinder retrospective this past two weeks. For various reasons it’s not been easy to see his films in the theater, but now that distributers Janus hold this selection of (very nice) subtitled prints, one can hope that they’ll resurface more frequently. The second […]
A Stupendous Weekend of Fassbinder at The American Cinematheque – More To Come
We’re halfway through the American Cinematheque’s wonderful Fassbinder retrospective, and if it’s demonstrated one thing, it’s that a Fassbinder double bill is a hell of a lot of cinema. His work rate was so prolific that one would assume a film here and there to have been merely tossed off. Some of them were, […]
Coming Soon: Haywire, or the movie Relativity Media desperately needs to be a hit.
Steven Soderbergh has made a variety of films, in all of the different genres. He is even credited with propelling the independent film movement of the 1990s with his Sundance Film Festival hit, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989). He has also said he was retiring from moviemaking more than once, only to announce later that […]
Coming Soon: Red Tails
A film that has been somewhat under the radar over the past few months is Red Tails. Only lately have materials been released for it, and only in the past two weeks has anyone been talking about it–mostly because of Executive Producer George Lucas. The time has come to see what Red Tails is all […]