Short shorts, 2/11.

David N Meyer puts Brick at the top of his best-of-06 list. Also in the Brooklyn Rail (besides John Yau's conversation with Jasper Johns): David Wilentz on the "Plastic Fantastic Universe of Tsai Ming Liang," on the latest two Kurosawa films from Criterion and on the Monsters and Madmen box; Sarahjane Blum on Wassup Rockers; and John Oursler on The Double Life of Veronique.

Zach Campbell: "I am curious about the arrival of prestige film products this past year that are presented, marketed for being explorations of the golden age of Hollywood: not necessarily Hollywood, mind you, but its age."

New blog: CineFile Video.

At Slant: Ed Gonzalez on Exterminating Angels and Maxed Out.

David Lowery talks with Jeff Lipsky about Flannel Pajamas.

The Oscar season issue of the New York Times Magazine is up, along with a slide show.

In the paper: Dennis Lim on Abderrahmane Sissako and Bamako (more from Salon's Andrew O'Hehir), Robert Ito profiles Maggie Q, Mark Olsen on the Black Snake Moan blues, and Justin Peters on home-film-schooling.

In the Independent: Geoffrey Macnab on Eric Rohmer, Jonathan Romney meets Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Lesley O'Toole interviews Diane Keaton.

The Guardian runs an extract from The Philosophy of Andy Warhol. Also: Sandra Hebron interviews Michel Gondry.

Acquarello on The Last Mitterand.

Mike Wood, Identity Theory, This Filthy World.

Jim Emerson on watching movies again.

"With cowboy hat and kerchief, Pedro Infante rode his dreams and a homemade guitar to the top of Mexico's film and music worlds in the 1940s and 50s," writes Cecilia Rasmussen. Also in the Los Angeles Times: A Valentine's Day tie-in piece on the state of the romantic comedy from Rachel Abramowitz, Mark Olsen meets Maria Maggenti, Mary McNamara profiles Chris Cooper in the run-up to Breach and Richard Schickel on John T Irwin's Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir.

Reviews of Ten Days in the Hills, Jane Smiley's Hollywood novel: Tara Ison in the LAT and Chris Bohjalian in the Washington Post.

Matt Riviera on Rescue Dawn and Death of a President.

Patrick Sisson, Stop Smiling, What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library.

Ramon Valle, WSWS, God Grew Tired of Us.

Brian Gibson, Vue Weekly, 51 Birch Street.

Patrick Sawer on Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. Also in the New Statesman: Tom Teodorczuk on the state of the British film industry. Related: John Whitley's conversation with Richard Attenborough in the Telegraph.

Interviews in the London Times: Wendy Ide with Vincent Cassel and Ken Russell.

Meghan O'Rourke interviews Stephen Frears for Slate.

David Poland's been thinking quite a bit about media, old and new: Parts 1, 2 and 3.

Joe Leydon remembers Ian Richardson, 1934 - 2007.

Rick Perlstein, In These Times, Peter Boyle.

Filmmakers: The deadline for applying for a Creative Capital grant is March 5.

Posted by dwhudson at February 11, 2007 11:55 AM