“I let the audience feel and think.” Those are the words said by the late German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who was coming out of an age in European film where intellectualism was the driving point for many filmmakers, but Fassbinder was a rebel…
Read MoreNothing is more addictive than the past.”
The trailer for this looked so good. We saw it a bunch of times, and the anticipation just kept building and building…and then we saw the movie. Sad trombone….
Read MoreThe other night I revisited Albert Lewin’s underrated gem Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, which was released 70 years ago, several decades later I was still taken in by the romantic beauty of it…
Read More“Not every sardine was meant to swim, son.”
“I don’t understand fishing metaphors!”
This is one of those movies that I am not certain why it never occurred to me to watch. When I think about it, people who like it are people to whom I have similar tastes, but for some reason…
Read MoreIn recent years one of the most sought-after filmmakers is Italian director Luca Guadagnino. With recent works that include Call Me By Your Name, a reimagining of Suspiria, an acclaimed HBO miniseries We Are Who We Are, along with upcoming projects that include Bones & All, remakes of both Scarface, and Brideshead Revisited. He’s someone who’s been recognized for his unique style, and themes, proving himself to be…
Read MoreOnce a month at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles they have Cartoon Club which is a themed collection of cartoons curated and presented by New Bev cartoon maven Jules McLean and animation historian Jerry Beck.
This has been occurring for years, to the joy of parents who want their little kids to experience classic animation of the big screen where God intended it, cartoon nerds who know all the minutia, and…
Read More“Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute.”
I have a long and storied association with Star Wars, just like everyone else.
Every generation finds Star Wars in their own way, and I…
Read More“Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death… In a word, emotion.”
Those words uttered by writer director Samuel Fuller, are words on filmmaking that could only be said by someone who’s experienced combat. His career consisted of many war films such as Fixed Bayonets!, China Gate, Verboten!, Merrill’s Marauders, and The Big Red One, but perhaps the greatest of them is his 1951 film, The Steel Helmet.
With a career that…
Read More“For six hundred years our ninja have brought peace to the world. But times have changed. I need Warriors like you to become the future of the clan. Join us. This is your destiny.”
When I first saw the trailer for this I was like, “This looks great! This looks terrible exciting! I love any movie where someone says portentously, ‘For SIX HUNDRED YEARS…
Read MoreEach year, we’d pick a new amazing director and devote that year to as thorough a deep dive and celebration of their work as possible.
Interestingly, when we began programming the movies of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder this past month, it was only because we love his movies so much and found we could get them on 35mm.
Then, organically, through the side door, the way many great ideas come, we realized HERE was our director for 2021…
Read MoreSo, the other day a bunch of Olympics movies appeared on the TCM app, and when I was looking for information about one of them I saw that it was also on the Criterion Channel. Then I looked and saw that what Criterion had was all of the same films that were on TCM, plus way more!
Criterion has a collection of 53 films about various Olympic Games from 1912-2012…
Read MoreThe films of Eric Rohmer capture a slow, meditative examination on the smaller moments of daily life, that are often cut out of most movies in favor of life’s key events. Many of his films often explore their main characters on vacation, with his relaxed style, and his love of nature, he perfectly captures the feeling of being on vacation, in which we try to escape from the hecticness of our work lives, into an exotic area. Not only to escape, but also to confront the internal conflicts of our lives…
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