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Movies RSS FeedsPassion Without Words: The Cinema of Claire Denis - 09 Jun 03 Issue After spending much of her childhood in Africa, Paris-born film-maker Claire Denis assisted such giants of the international art cinema world as Dušan Makavejev, Costa-Gavras, Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch before directing her feature debut, Chocolat (1988), at the age of 40. Since then, she has fashioned a remarkable body of work. Her powerfully emotional films are filled with literary references and the sorts of marginalised characters usually absent from mainstream cinema. In this special issue of Kinoeye, five Denis scholars examine a quartet of the writer-director's most evocative and controversial films, revealing the auteurist vision underlying the apparent diversity. [Kinoeye]...Feed Source: www.kinoeye.org The Last Bolshevik - by Chris Marker
06 Jul 03
Le Tombeau d'Alexandre, 1993[Alexander's Tomb/The Last Bolshevik]
The Last Bolshevik opens to an insightful and relevant excerpted passage from author and critical thinker George Steiner's book, In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture: 'It is not the literal past that rules us [save, possibly, in a biological sense]. It is images of the past.' Composed in the structure of montage (an homage to the characteristic editing and filmic language of pioneering Russia... One Nation Under a Groove - by Luc Sante
17 Jul 03 Issue
Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Musicby Arthur KemptonPantheon, 498 pp., $27.50
The boogaloo is, or was, one of the thousand dances the land was full of in the 1960s, enumerated in inventory songs such as James Brown's 'There Was a Time' and the Isley Brothers' 'Nobody But Me': the skate, the swim, the pony, the monkey, the camelwalk, the shing-a-ling. Arthur Kempton notes that it made its debut as the title of a million-selling but faintly remembered 1965 release by the Chi... Hacker How-To Good Summer Reading - by Michelle Delio
27 Jun 03
Stealing the Network: How to Own the Boxby Ryan RussellSyngress, 330 pp., $49.95
Stealing The Network: How to Own the Box, a compendium of tales written by well-known hackers, is a perfect summer read. The stories are fictional. The technology and techniques described are very real.
A warning: Those... Craig Bierko Interview for Scary Movie 4 -
Please don't sue me, Mr. Cruise. I'm only reporting on my interview with the people who are spoofing you. If you have any issues with it, please take it up ... Anna Faris Interview for Scary Movie 4 - .
Anna Faris is quickly approaching Leslie Nielsen in terms of appearances in movie spoofs. She returns for Scary Movie 4 as Cindy Campbell, the same character from the ... Masters of Horror Season 2 Party Photo Gallery - The filmmakers behind Showtime, Anchor Bay and IDT's Masters of Horror series threw a party to celebrate the launch of Season Two. Get a look at the filmmakers and other ... Beerfest Movie Set Report -
The Broken Lizard gang (l-r: Paul Soter, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme and Erik Stolhanske) take on Oktoberfest in their latest comedy adventure Beerfest. When two Americans discover the ... DVD on HDTV April Report -
April's first DVD titles put to the HDTV test include new releases King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia and Hostel, plus re-releases of The Planet of the Apes series, Mel ... Lawrence Fishburne on Mission Impossible 3 - We only see a fleeting glimpse of Laurence Fishburne in the previews for Mission: Impossible 3. Even Fishburne himself wouldn’t tell us who he plays, “Of course it’s a big ... 9 to 5 DVD Release Party -
It may not be Death Wish but 9 to 5 serves up revenge with comedy and music and remains as vital today as ever. The office avengers return in the ... Basic Instinct 2 Movie Review - Nobody expected Basic Instinct 2 to be a good film, because the motivations for making it were simply that it was cheaper than having a lawsuit with Sharon Stone. But ... Ice Age The Meltdown Movie Review -
Following in the tradition of Toy Story 2 and Shrek 2, Ice Age The Meltdown serves up a CGI sequel even better than its predecessor. It may not have the ... Top 10 Alien Invasion Movies - In celebration of Slither, I recalled my favorite alien invasion movies of all time… of the ones I’ve seen of course. I probably missed a lot of the great ‘50s ... Copyright © 2009, Cool Collection. All Rights Reserved. |