March 7, 2006

Shorts, 3/7.

J Hoberman: "Not everyone adores The New World, but those cineastes who like it, really, really like it... [I]f nothing else, the response to The New World reflects the collective utopian yearning still bound up in the movies - and the religious fervor this particular film has generated is fascinating, not least to an agnostic like myself."

Kenneth Anger Meanwhile, Ed Halter opens the film department's entry in the Village Voice Spring Arts Preview with a glance at the Whitney Biennial, "usually the place to catch a glimpse of hot young artists, [but] its 2006 film and video program will be showcasing the other end of the age spectrum: The slate includes more than a few avant-garde moviemakers who were already stirring things up during the Johnson administration." More from Jerry Saltz and, in the New York Times, Michael Kimmelman; in the New Yorker, Calvin Tomkins; and of course, right here, David D'Arcy.

Also in the Voice:

Romance

Boyd van Hoeij at europeanfilms.net: "The überprolific François Ozon has barely shepherded his latest film Le temps qui reste (Time to Leave) through to its cinema release, but he is already behind the camera for his new film." Romola Garai and Charlotte Rampling will star in Paradise, adapted from the novel by British writer Elizabeth Taylor.

Screenwriter (and fellow GreenCine editor) Craig Phillips considers the Oscar-winning Crash screenplay.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was always good. Blake digs up the evidence at Cinema Strikes Back.

Ian Johnston on Fassbinder's The Stationmaster's Wife at Not Coming to a Theater Near You. Related: Being Boring on Chinese Roulette and Steven Boone makes an admittedly absurd comparison.

"[A]llowing [An Ambush of Ghosts] to remain languishing in limbo is ridiculous," argues Nathaniel Drake Carlson; he also interviews director Everett Lewis.

Day Watch Jarrett Dobson reviews Day Watch at Twitch.

In New York, David Edelstein recommends Fernando Eimbcke's Duck Season. More from Michael Atkinson in the Voice.

At Maisonneuve: Jonathan Kiefer on the Oscar-nominated short doc, The Mushroom Club.

Stanley Kauffmann reviews Carlos Reygadas's Battle in Heaven for the New Republic.

Violet Glaze at PopMatters on The Misfits.

Deutsche Welle reports on Dani Levy's upcoming Hitler comedy.

Sunday was a good one at Cynematik.

John O'Neil in the New York Times: "Dana Reeve, an actress who became an advocate for the disabled after her husband, Christopher Reeve, became paralyzed, died on Monday night of lung cancer at the age of 44, said Kathy Lewis, the president and chief executive officer of the Christopher Reeve Foundation."

Online browsing tip. Matt Jones's storyboards for Corpse Bride. Via Drawn!

Online viewing tip #1. Faces. From Matt Clayfield.

Online viewing tip #2. A Fairly Reliable History of British Film. Via Peter Nellhaus.

Online viewing tips. hillmancurtis, inc, the Artist Series, featuring, among many others, Mark Romanek. Thanks, Jamie!



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Posted by dwhudson at March 7, 2006 2:55 PM

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I love [b]the New World[/b] and hope it has a robust life as a revival now that its theatrical run is almost over. But I can't believe Hoberman seems to think it might have viability as a midnight movie. I've read his book, and though I haven't seen all the films he describes in it, I can't think of a one that shares the slightest similaries in content or aesthetics to [b]the New World[/b]. And the films that are succesful as midnight movies these days (at least in the Bay Area) seem cut from an even narrower segment of the cinematic universe than those in the 70's were.

Posted by: Brian at March 7, 2006 5:21 PM

It's unfortunate that Hoberman feels a need to shelve "The New World" away somewhere appropriate where, later during some midnight craving, he thinks he can find it. Like any great piece of film, "The New World" will continue to be screened here and there, appreciated more (I suspect) over time, reaching private libraries. I know it will go into mine. I wonder if the reaction to the film isn't predicated just on Malick's impressionistic treatment of the theme, but the theme itself. While foreigners were busy planting flags, the indigenous continued planting corn. And the betrayals set into motion by Capt. Smith continue to this day as the Vatican steps in to take away holy Apache land for the Graham Observatory. The interior dialogue with Mother continues.....

Posted by: Michael Guillen at March 9, 2006 1:14 AM

I think Asia Argento is hot! But I've only seen her in her father's films. I have her other work in my queue, but the DVD's are currently buried in the bottom. I want to see her work with Catherine Breillat. I'm interested in know how that is. I saw the film, Une Vraie Jeune Fille on its rerelease in the screening room in Dallas TX. I may have been the only when they're watching it. The Rob Nelson story in The Village Voice fails to even mention that the latest edition to the world's greatest hoax is that the author, James Frey of, "A Million Little Pieces" is actually a woman. Or at least that's what I heard...

Posted by: Jerry Lentz at March 9, 2006 2:47 AM