Video: HUGO and the First Movie Magicians

With HUGO in the headlines, early film pioneers walk the red carpet. read more...

Rushes: Dyer | Actors | Darnell

Feb 22, 2012

Geoff Dyer's latest idiosyncratic panorama, this one about Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER, came out from Random House yesterday. Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room, was the source. Rose McLaren begins her piece for The White Review with a line from Dyer: 'So what kind of writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?'—a question some of us have paused over often enough. At Movie Morlocks, R. Emmett Sweeny describes the book as "a pellucid scene-by-scene ramble through Tarkovsky’s sci-fi head trip, alive to the film’s textures as much as its ideas." read more...


Scarlet Letters: Part Two

THE GRAND INQUISITOR filmmaker and ‘czar of noir’ Eddie Muller brings Hollywood backstory to 1945’s SCARLET STREET. The second of two parts. read more...

Scarlet Letters: Part One

THE GRAND INQUISITOR filmmaker and 'czar of noir' Eddie Muller breathes in the dank air of 1945’s SCARLET STREET. The first of two parts. read more...

The Envelope, Please: Oscar Primer Three

Laugh, cry, learn something? The 2012 Academy Award nominations offer a chance to broaden your cinema horizon. Part three of a three-part series. read more...

The Envelope, Please: Oscar Primer Two

Dig a little deeper into the 2012 Academy Award nominations, and some fascinating opportunities emerge. Part two of a three-part series. read more...

The Uncertainty Principle

Benjamin Heisenberg talks about action, reaction and German film phenom THE ROBBER. read more...

Video: Love Against Irony in Maren Ade’s EVERYONE ELSE

Valentine's Day offers the opportunity to revisit one of the great romantic "fight" scenes of our time. read more...

Early Soviet Cinema and the Revolutionary Imperative

In Soviet Cinema's Silent era, freedom and adventure prevailed over the party line. read more...

The Envelope, Please: An Oscar Primer

Dig a little deeper into the 2012 Academy Award nominations and some fascinating opportunities emerge. Part one of a three-part series. read more...

Video: Paradise Lost in Ursula Meier’s HOME

Ursula Meier, one of the most exciting women directors working today, debuts a new film at the Berlinale, which calls for a look back at her previous triumph, HOME. By Fernando F. Croce and Kevin B. Lee read more...

Video: Open Source Epic SITA SINGS THE BLUES

Nina Paley’s ‘Sita Sings the Blues’ mines cultural histories too rich to be contained by copyright restrictions. By Kevin B. Lee read more...

My Poland: Jan Jakub Kolski and PORNOGRAPHIA

In a country stocked with passionate cinematic masters, upstart Jan Jakub Kolski stands out, reimagining Poland as a dangerous fairy tale, clotted with shadowy unknowns. read more...