Features
Amat Escalante, post-BASTARDOS
In competition at Cannes with HELI, Escalante speaks on filmmaking style, sex, death, Carlos Reygadas, painting and the image of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
That’s a Wrap: San Francisco International
Critics wrap the festival year with notes on SFIFF 2013 as Cannes sets the agenda for twelve months to come.
The Big Ones: FRAGMENTS OF KUBELKA
Martina Kudláček’s new film offers the bracing yet affable truth about Peter Kubelka.
The Film 100: Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert, no. 74
The ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ trademark became the gauge that millions looked to.
Scenes: THE NEW YEAR
On embracing the beautiful ambiguity of adulthood with one of the most stunningly subtle finales in recent American cinema.
The Film 100: John Ford, no. 30
John Ford was to westerns what Alfred Hitchcock was to suspense films.
The Film 100: Louis B. Mayer, no. 21
Reigning over Hollywood became an obsession. L.B. Mayer was the most powerful executive of the largest and most prestigious film studio for more than forty years.
The Mystery Scientific Method
Joe Don Baker, Gamera, Miles O’Keeffe, Torgo: if these names sound familiar or even related, you have Mystery Science Theater 3000 to blame.
