2008

Aug

MOMA to salute Carlos Reygadas & SILENT...

Apparently unrelated to the NYFF which is kicking off the same week, MOMA is presenting a week long...

I’ve written twice before about Omer Fast’s video installation project The Casting,...

The festival season approaches

Autumn has always been my favorite season. For many years, the most significant changes in my life...

Isaac Hayes 1942-2008

Pic of the Day: Strangers by Hsu, Sheng-Yuan. Full gallery...

Pic of the Day: Viggo Mortenson and Kodi Smit-McPhee in a...

Secret screening of Tibetan doc shut down in...

Don Draper imparts his opinion of Pall...

whatwoulddondraperdo: 52. Dear Don Draper, I just started smoking and find that it calms my nerves...

Jul

Video of the day: Apple “time capsule” from 1984. (via Laughing Squid)

Video of the Day: Trailer #1 for Oliver Stone’s W. (via Peter Debruge/Variety)

Johnny Griffin “The Little Giant” 1928-2008

Roger Ebert - The balcony is closed

Roku Netflix player is a no-brainer

FedEx delivered my Roku Netflix player today, and after less than 10 minutes of set-up, I was up and...

NYC looking into bike sharing program

Maysles opens a non-profit doc theater in...

Pic of the Day: The “Manned Cloud”, a 690-foot...

Pic of the day: Guadalupe by Michael Eastman. From the show...

Jun

Video of the day: “Step Out” by Vamoose (featuring Wade Allain-Marcus, who is also one...

Brian Romero’s Zero Dollar Bill. (via Laughing Squid)

In honor of the New York Asian Film Festival beginning this weekend, here’s the trailer for...

Video of the day: David Lynch: Trillions and Zillions of Ideas. From theAtlantic.com (via House Next...

Céline & Julie go through the looking...

The Brooklyn Academy of Music recently began a 2 week retrospective of Quinzaine des Réalisateurs...

From Daily Kos, via Gawker.

Earlier this year, the Museum of the Moving Image out in Astoria, Queens shut its doors for a major...

Lest there be any doubt how much Europe loves Obama: BBC News trumpets his clinching of the...

May

Bicycle liberation thrives in Paris

One of the most fascinating things I saw in my recent visit to Paris were these bicycle rental...

Harvey Korman 1927-2008

Time for a Arvo Pärt film soundtrack embargo

Video of the Day: Los Simpsons. Strange and disturbing. (via Laughing Squid)

May 1968/2008

A big topic in the news in France this month has been the 40th anniversary of the protests of May...

Cannes report #2: In pictures

And now, a quick photo gallery of some of the madness during my 10 days in Cannes. On arrival,...

Cannes report #1: The films

My first trip to Cannes was all I expected times ten. The chaos, the parties, the crowds, the...

Pic(s) of the day: San-Zhr Pod Village by Craig Ferguson, a...

My star-studded flight from Nice to...

I’ll soon be posting a bunch of updates on my Cannes trip, but in the meantime, here’s...

Cannes minus 1 week

Posters for a few of the dozens of films premiering at Cannes in 2008. With about 6 hours until my...

Tribeca 08 review recap

As I am not a film critic and have no pretense of ever being one, I have taken to reviewing films I...

Omer Fast wins the Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum...

Does a Film Festival work better as a...

Marfa, Texas. Photo credit: Marfa Film Festival/marfafilmfestival.org As I come to the end of my...

Apr

BAGHEAD and/or mumbling myself to death

I don’t get that thing that is commonly referred to as mumblecore. I also don’t like...

Video of the day: Passport to Glamour - 1959 Cannes Film Festival (pt. 1)

Is this poster taking 9/11 imagery in movie marketing to a...

Pieter Hugo Mohammed Rabiu with Jamis, Ibusa, Nigeria...

IndieWIRE Tribeca FF critic's notebook #1

Cannes line-up is damn promising

The Cannes line-up is all over the place this morning, and maybe it’s just because it’s...

Video of the day: Charlie Rose interviews Charlie Rose (via Gawker)

Behold the poster for the 61st Cannes Film Festival. I’ll be making my first trip to the...

Yes Tom, "Sunrise" was the first best...

For the past couple of days I’ve been a bit riled up about this blog entry on the LA Times...

Photo credit: Julien Jourdes/NYT I must admit to being very...

Mario Carbone Tre Bambini, Uno con la...

I have made a muxtape

It had to happen apparently… champura.muxtape.com Be warned, it’s a rather random mix,...

Flying Spaghetti Monster statue on display outside of...

Mar

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have...”
— Robert Bresson (via Tom Hall)

Video of the day: Tron light cycles recreated using cardboard (via Zadi Diaz)

“The biggest weekend benchmark belonged to “4 Months, 3...”
— IndieWIRE (Box Office Report...

Interesting Atlantic magazine video on Hollywood’s recent return to “paranoid-style...

Photo credit: Flickr/misplacedparadox Celebration of the 3rd...

Whitney Biennial: The Casting by Omer...

Photo Credit: Twp Photo/Washington Post One of the most interesting and provocative short films...

Arthur C. Clarke: 1917-2008

18 March 2008: Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx

18 March 2008: Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx

18 March 2008: Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx

15 March 2008: Inside the Park Avenue Armory

Feb

25 February 2008: Playland

25 February 2008: Parachute Jump

25 February 2008: Wonder Wheel

25 February 2008: Cyclone

via Eugene Hernandez

Jan

This is a pic from my first trip to Sundance in 2004. It was...

2007

Dec

Some 07 Lists

An alphabetical list of films I saw & liked this year:4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 DaysDay Night...

Sep

“It’s hard to be mad when you’re wearing fuzzy...”
— The Moose