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Why De Palma’s ‘Blow Out’ Tops Antonioni’s ‘Blow-Up’
The scene everybody remembers in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blow-Up comes around the halfway mark. Thomas (David Hemmings), the photographer at the story’s center, is developing some pictures....
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Spielberg and the Coen Brothers Channel Howard Hawks in ‘Bridge of Spies’
Your correspondent spent much of the first two acts of Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies — which premiered over the weekend at the New York Film Festival — trying to tune in to the picture’s...
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‘Where to Invade Next’ Is a Typical Michael Moore Movie — For Better and Worse
Michael Moore doesn’t always make it easy to admire his films. He’s a social commentator of legitimate passion and scorching wit; he’s also a documentarian whose work can be sloppy at best and...
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Aaron Sorkin Bounces Back, Exploding Biopic Tropes in Thrilling ‘Steve Jobs’
For someone who’s openly contemptuous of Internet culture in general and social media in particular, Aaron Sorkin sure does spend a lot of time writing about the important figures of those movements....
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Groundbreaking Filmmaker Chantal Akerman Has Died
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman has died at 65, Libération reports. The groundbreaking feminist/avant-garde filmmaker began making movies in 1968, inspired by Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, and a...
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Don Cheadle’s ‘Miles Ahead’ and the Risks of Biopic Trope-Tinkering
Don Cheadle’s been involved in his fair share of biographical films (Hotel Rwanda, Talk to Me, The Rat Pack, Rebound), and he learned something making them: “To some degree, they are all historical...
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“That Tunnel You’re in When You First Fall in Love”: Todd Haynes on ‘Carol’...
Todd Haynes’ Carol is sure to be a great success, at least for a movie explicitly about and for adults, but hopefully that success won’t come at the cost of reducing it to a “lesbian film.” Because...
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From True Crime Docs to Pitch-Black Comedy: The Most Fascinating Movies of...
Fifteen days after its pontiff-prompted late kickoff, the 53rd annual New York Film Festival drew to a close yesterday. It was a festival of splashy debuts, quiet discoveries, and unexpected mourning,...
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Ava DuVernay’s Mass Incarceration Documentary to Become First Nonfiction Film...
The New York Film Festival has just announced its precedent-setting 2016 Opening Night film selection: Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th, which will become the first nonfiction film to ever open the...
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Oprah Winfrey to Play Mrs. Which in Ava DuVernay’s ‘A Wrinkle In Time’...
Oprah Winfrey will reunite with Ava DuVernay for the latter’s upcoming adaptation of Madeline L’Engle’s novel A Wrinkle in Time, THR reports. Winfrey will play the role of Mrs. Which, who helps the...
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