Brooklyn Rail. Dec 06 / Jan 07.

In the new issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Matt Peterson places The Case of the Grinning Cat within the context of Chris Marker's oeuvre. The film "comes from an artist who continually challenged himself to make sure his mastery of craft - which could range from ground-breaking to mesmerizing - never overshadowed the work's content, which was often political with an unapologetically subjective commentary (and a love of cats)." Also: reviews of Michael Haneke's The Seventh Continent and Lars von Trier's Manderlay.

David N Meyer on Casino Royale: "The message is clear: when white folks have policy goals, the Third World will just have to bear the consequences." Also, the "Leone-Sirk-O-Rama (In Thai)," Tears of the Black Tiger.

For Sara Mayeux, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes " is not so much a movie. The earlier term 'moving picture' better captures Piano Tuner: a series of images tied loosely together by a narrative idea."

David Wilentz: "An air of simmering perversion permeates the 1968 thriller-cum-social commentary Pretty Poison."

Williams Cole: "It remains to be seen if the Borat fallout will only make people more wary than they already are to participate in documentary film. Hopefully it won't. But if it does it will be a loss that far outweighs any Cultural Learnings of America that Borat provides."

Related online listening tip. Publisher Phong Bui's been a guest on the Leonard Lopate Show.

Posted by dwhudson at December 26, 2006 6:49 AM