Film & Video
  • A Poet's "Quiet Passion": Cynthia Nixon Cast as Emily Dickinson in Long-Awaited Biopic

    Pin It Published: September 11, 2024 The British director Terence Davies has cast Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson (1830-86) in his future biopic of the American poet, titled "A Quiet Passion." ...

  • After Love, Cinema: In Praise of Love

    Godard's 2001 film is about time, memory, Western civilization, and Hollywood. by Ela Bittencourt In Praise of Love (2001)Directed by Jean-Luc GodardSeptember 15, at the Museum of the Moving ...

  • John Boorman's "Hope and Glory" Sequel Will Tackle Korean War and Queen's Coronation

    by Graham Fuller Published: September 12, 2024 John Boorman is planning to make an early-1950s sequel to 1987's "Hope and Glory," his popular Oscar-nominated memoir of life on the English home ...

  • Repertory Film: The Faithful and Fantastic

    This week's Repertory Film calendar leads off with J. Hoberman's "Film After Film" series at the Museum of the Moving Image, plus a tribute to Andrew Sarris at MoMA, Jonathan Demme's post-Katrina ...

  • Time After Time and "Film After Film"

    Jean-Luc Godard's In Praise of Love Welcome to FilmLinc Digest, our new series of regular round-ups from the film and festival world. We heard around this time last year that MoMA had acquired ...

  • World's First Color Films Are Discovered in English Museum

    by Graham Fuller Published: September 13, 2024 Probably the oldest color films in existence have been discovered by the National Media Museum in Bradford, England. The films were made by the ...

  • September is a very good month for books about film. Hoberman's excellent survey of 21st century cinema culture, Film After Film, is available in hardback and on Kindles; and there's an all-new ...

  • Village Voice Editor Tony Ortega Is Leaving To Write A Scientology Book

    Tony Ortega, who has been the editor-in-chief of the Village Voice since 2007, announced via blog post on Friday that he is stepping down next week. The alt-weekly has seen a number of staff ...

  • Two Noirs From the Demon Dog: James Ellroy's "The Big Nowhere" and "Blood's a Rover" Get Lift-Off

    by Graham Fuller Published: September 17, 2024 Two new movies of James Ellroy novels are in the works. According to Deadline , Vincent Sieber and Clark Peterson will produce (and Ellroy will ...

  • Where Joaquin Phoenix Sowed the Seeds for His Great Performance in "The Master"

    by Graham Fuller Published: September 18, 2024 Seventeen years ago this month, I interviewed Joaquin Phoenix, then a scrawny 21, whose unwillingness to talk indicated an understandable mistrust of ...

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