September 25, 2008

Short shorts, 9/25.

Synecdoche, New York The "Just like I pictured it..." edition. Your Daily blogger has landed in New York City. Cinematical's Erik Davis has a large version of that poster, by the way. So blogging of some sort will carry on through the next several days, but in what form exactly? We'll play it by ear. Meantime...

David Schwartz (Moving Image Source) talks with Andrew Sarris and Molly Haskell about Howard Hawks.

Girish and DK Holm (Vancouver Voice) on film criticism.

Josh Rosenblatt (Austin Chronicle) on Fahrenheit 451. Related: Carolyn Nikodym (Vue Weekly) on banned books.

Robert Davis (Daily Plastic on Nathaniel Dorsky's Devotional Cinema.

Glenn Kenny (Auteurs' Notebook) on the "lesser" Busby Berkeleys.

Doug Cummings on Take Out.

Alison Willmore talks with Wayne Coyne about Christmas on Mars.

Festival previews: German Currents: New Film From Germaany (FilmInFocus, through Sunday), Edmonton (Vue; tomorrow through October 4), Chicago (Chicagoist Rob Christopher; October 16 through 29), SF DocFest (SF360's Susan Gerhard; October 17 through November 6) and Virginia (October 30 through November 2).



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Posted by dwhudson at September 25, 2008 3:48 PM

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"Skyscrapers and everything..."

Posted by: Kathy Fennessy at September 26, 2008 9:45 AM

EriK Davis.

Posted by: at September 27, 2008 9:02 AM

Got it, thanks.

Posted by: David Hudson at September 27, 2008 2:20 PM