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 ...
