I would kill my own mother and drink her blood in order to go to this. A retrospective at the Pompidou Center in Paris of Godard's entire body of work! Over the course of 4 months, every single film that Godard has ever made (including his Dziga Vertov Group work, '68 Cinetracts, Histoires du cinema, and other extreme rarities), plus multiple ( Read more... )

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If the film revolution came tomorrow, who would be first against the wall? My nominees:
-Jerry Bruckheimer
-Michael Bay
-Joel Schumacher
-Steven Spielberg

That's just the first four. Second question: are assassinations of film tyrants morally excusable based soley on cultural crimes against humanity?

Probably not, but a boy can dream!

I recently received a back issue of Cineaste from 1973 (vol. V, no. 4, for those who care). It's a gem of an issue as it's a special on "Radical American Film." Highly illuminating on not only the state of radical cinema in the early 70's, but also on the state of radical politics in general. These people were big on the Marx, let me tell ya ( Read more... )

The personal: I didn't get into the film preservation program in Rochester. Sigh. If you're really interested in all of the details about that, you can mosey over to my regular blog and indulge yourself in my shoe-gazing ( Read more... )

I renewed my subscriptions to Film Comment magazine and Cineaste magazine today. I really like those two, but I think Cineaste is my absolute favourite film magazine. It's such an anamoly, such a product of its time that has somehow managed to survive to our present era. Cineaste started out in the 70's, when it actually wasn't that difficult to ( Read more... )

Once again, I'm soliciting advice about my film class. I've taught this class for a year, and I thought that that was going to be the end of it. Then I found out that the ESL school that I teach at offered it once again for another semester. I asked my students not to sign up again, because I wanted to start over with the same topics. I really ( Read more... )

I watched Tomatoes Another Day (James Watson & Alec Wilder, 1930/33) today. It's a 7 minute experimental film included on the Unseen Cinema set. I was unfamilar with this film, never having heard of it before I got Unseen Cinema. But I don't know why because it's brilliant ( Read more... )

Does anyone else think Robert Altman is the most over-rated director of all time? Or am I the only Altman-hater?

I would love to enter some of the shit I did in high school to this, but it's all in a box on a different continent. Alas! Anyway, this is a call-out from the Available Light Screening Collective in Ottawa. But you don't have to be from Ottawa to send something in, if you're interested ( Read more... )