Article Archive for September 2010
The Golden Age of Explosives and Mud-Wrestling
Why Luis Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or is still dropping truth bombs on the times we live in.
Black Swans in a Sea of Movies: Standouts at the Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is far too sprawling and diverse to cover comprehensively, but here are a few highlights.
The Lure of Crime: Feuillade’s FANTOMAS films
Wildly popular in its time, this landmark action serial was reduced to mid-century obscurity – and is now available online.
First Person: Out of Your Dreams, Into My Head: Tarkovsky’s THE MIRROR
Why Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror is the pinnacle of dream movies.
Collective Memory, Shifting Moods: Tarkovsky’s THE MIRROR
Long before Inception, Andrei Tarkovsky explored cinema’s dream-like power to blend fantasy and reality.
Revisiting a Post-Revolution Reality: FIDEL!
Saul Landau’s Fidel! is a vivid snapshot of 1971 Cuba, giving equal time to exiles, prisoners, patriots and El Presidente himself.
