Recently added articles from Cineaste:
Torn from today's headlines.(EDITORIAL)(movie criticism)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2009; ... Given film history's legacy, it would be difficult to argue that noble or idealistic subject matter invariably inspires great cinema. Profound political and social issues have frequently generated bad or mediocre films, while seemingly trivial concerns occasionally fuel masterpieces, ...
A filmmaker at the barricades: the cinematic and political evolution of Mohsen Makhmalbaf.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Hamid, Rahul ... The cinema of Mohsen Makhmalbaf reflects the turbulent times and dramatic transformations that the man and his nation have undergone in the last thirty years. Unlike most world-class filmmakers, Makhmalbaf has never settled into a signature style; his work is constantly changing, marked by ...
I make cinema in order to breathe: an interview with Mohsen Makhmalbaf.(Interview)
Sep 22, 2009; West, Dennis ... The following interview took place in June 2008 at the Cines del Sur Film Festival in Granada, Spain. Makhmalbaf was the festival's guest of honor and a major retrospective of his work was presented. The festival also published a book-length critical study of the filmmaker's work (Mohsen ...
Satyajit Ray: liberalism and its vicissitudes.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Sengoopta, Chandak ... Satyajit Ray (1921-1992), whose films were showcased earlier this year in New York at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, has long been India's best-known filmmaker in the West. Initially hailed as an Indian incarnation of Robert Flaherty or Jean Renoir, Ray came to ...
Dollars and sense: new documentaries on the financial crisis.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Prins, Nomi ... Nowadays whenever discussion turns to serious consideration of finance (the management of money) or economics (the financial science of the production and use of goods and services), especially once the esoteric concepts and arcane acronyms are trotted out, most people's eyes begin to ...
Investigating the Federal Reserve: making money--and profits--out of thin air.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Prins, Nomi ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Several of the documentary films reviewed in this article briefly touch on the power of the Federal Reserve, notably pointing toward problems that arose from former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's dramatic reduction of interest rates leading up ...
Out of the jungle and into the fire: an interview with Joe Berlinger.(Interview)
Sep 22, 2009; Lybarger, Dan ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When director Joe Berlinger presented his latest movie, Crude, to a packed auditorium at the True/False Documentary Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri, last February, he sighed, "To be able to fill this theater with a subtitled documentary about people ...
A cinema of intimate spectacle: the poetics of Philippe Garrel.(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2009; Martin, Adrian ... In Philippe Garrel's Emergency Kisses (Les Baisers de secours, 1989), there is a moment when we find ourselves looking at a window. Natural light only partly illuminates the interior of the room from which the camera is looking. There is some distant, muffled talk; finally, Mathieu (played ...
The Baader Meinhof Complex.(Movie review)
Sep 22, 2009; Sklar, Robert ... Produced by Bernd Eichinger; directed by Uli Edel; screenplay by Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel, based on the book by Stefan Aust; cinematography by Rainer Klausmann; production design by Bernd Lepel; costumes by Birgit Missal; production design by Bernd Lepel; edited by Alexander Berner; ...
24 City.(Movie review)
Sep 22, 2009; Lee, Kevin B. ... Produced by Masayuki Mori, Yoshida Takio, Sadai Yuji, Kubo Satoshi, Xu Pengle, Zhu Jiong, and Ma Ning; directed by Jia Zhangke; written by by Jia Zhangke and Zhai Yongming; cinematography by Yu Likwai and Wang Yu; production design by Liu Qiang; costumes by Zhao Tong; edited by Lin Xudong ...
Tony Manero.(Movie review)
Sep 22, 2009; Nochimson, Martha P. ... Produced by Juan de Dios Larrain; directed by Pablo Larrain; screenplay by Pablo Larrain, Alfredo Castro, and Mateo Iribarren; cinematography by Sergio Armstrong; production design by Polin Garbisu; edited by Andre Chignoli; starring Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Hector Morales, Paola ...
The Limits of Control.(Movie review)
Sep 22, 2009; Nayman, Adam ... Produced by John Kilik, Yukie Kito, Carter Logan, Gretchen McGowan, and Stacey E. Smith; directed and written by Jim Jarmusch; cinematography by Christopher Doyle; production design by Eugenio Caballero; edited by Jay Rabinowitz; starring Isaach De Bankole, Paz de la Huerta, Gael Garcia ...
Sugar.(Movie review)
Sep 22, 2009; Long, Christopher ... Produced by Paul S. Mezey, Jamie Patricof, and Jeremy Kipp Walker; directed and written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck; cinematography by Andrij Parekh; production design by Beth Mickle; costumes by Erin Benach; edited by Anna Boden; starring Algenis Perez Soto, Rayniel Rufino, Andre ...
Forbidden Lie$.(Movie review)
Sep 22, 2009; Martin, Adrian ... Directed and written by Anna Broinowski; produced by Anna Broinowski, Sally Regan, and Antonio Zeccola; cinematography by Kathryn Milliss and Toby Oliver; edited by Alison Croft. Color, 104 mins. Distributed by Roxie Releasing, www.roxie.com. There are surprises in store for the ...
Il grido.(Video recording review)
Sep 22, 2009; Koehler, Robert ... Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni; produced by Franco Cancellieri; story by Michelangelo Antonioni; screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini; Ennio De Concini; cinematography by Gianni Di Venanzo; edited by Eraldo Da Roma; music by Giovanni Fusco; starring Steve Cochran, Alida ...
The Exterminating Angel.(Video recording review)
Sep 22, 2009; Backstein, Karen ... Produced by Gustavo Alatriste; directed and written by Luis Bunuel, based on a stow by Luis Alcoriza and Luis Bunuel; cinematography by Gabriel Fugueroa; edited by Carlos Savage Jr.; production design by Jesus Bracho; costumes by Georgette Somohano; music composed by Raul Lavista; starring ...
Last Year at Marienbad.(Video recording review)
Sep 22, 2009; Brown, Royal S. ... Produced by Pierre Corau and Raymond Froment; directed by Alain Resnais; screenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet; cinematography by Sacha Vierny; design by Jacques Saulnier; edited by Henri Colpi and Jasmine Chasney; music by Francis Seyrig; starring Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi and Sacha ...
Wise Blood.(Video recording review)
Sep 22, 2009; Sterritt, David ... Directed by John Huston; produced by Michael and Kathy Fitzgerald; written by Benedict and Michael Fitzgerald, based on the novel by Flannery O'Connor; music by Alex North; cinematography by Gerry Fisher; edited by Roberto Silvi; with Brad Dourif, Ned Beatty, Harry Dean Stanton, Dan Shor ...
Bergman's Island.(Staff Recommendations: Cineaste Editors Tout Their Favorite Recent DVD Releases)(Movie review)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; Quart, Leonard ... Marie Nyrerod's biographical documentary film is straightforward, and devoid of stylistic virtuosity. Besides brief clips from Bergman's films, such as Wild Strawberries (1957) and his rarely seen valedictory, Saraband (2003), it contains photos and film footage from Bergman's personal ...
Dusty and Sweets McGee.(Staff Recommendations: Cineaste Editors Tout Their Favorite Recent DVD Releases)(Warner Archive)(Brief article)
Sep 22, 2009; Cashill, Robert ... With the goal of putting its entire, extensive catalog within reach, Warner Bros. has inaugurated the Warner Archive, a DVD-on-demand service that pops out DVD-Rs of a growing selection of titles and ships them directly to consumers via its Web site. Reaction has been mixed: the discs are ...
