I enjoying talking at decent length with Leonard Benardo, the editor of The Ideas Letter and a vice president of the Open Society Foundations, about what’s good about criticism and some of the things it does w/ references to Kael, Barthes, Tynan and co
https://t.co/OSZz39Ha6M
Here's my essay in the new issue of The Ideas Letter, 'Terms of Art', on contemporary America film criticism and the work of A S Hamrah, with some emphasis on inaccuracy and misrepresentations; cameos from Kael, Faber @tnyfrontrow and other eminent figures
https://t.co/oDHtg3fJwo
LA INTERNACIONAL CINÉFILA 2025 (30/12)
Los participantes / The participants (17)
Masha Chernaya (Rusia) + Andrei Gorzo (Rumania) + Diego Battle (Argentina) + Stefan Ivancic (Serbia)
Here’s my contribution to the latest “Fall” issue of @bookforum — a somewhat lengthy rummage around the life, novels, letters, and legacy of the Scottish writer Muriel Spark, with cameos from Waugh, Trollope, Compton-Burnett, Updike, Robbe-Grillet, Kermode
https://t.co/sPfvMJN566
https://t.co/ThZpq0z3av
„Este unul dintre cele mai bune filme românești ale ultimilor ani și unul dintre rarele filme românești – din toate timpurile – cu o componentă erotică interesantă.” (Andrei Gorzo) 🫠
Inspired by @tnyfrontrow's ‘defense’ of the traditional review, @brofromanother’s regular heroics, my enduring Kael habit, inter alia, I’ll be doing a regular film piece for @NewLeftReview Sidecar starting with Ari Aster's strangely ill-treated Eddington
https://t.co/ENiAfScpQC
New from James Naremore: CINEMA THEN AND NOW (conversations w/ Craig S. Simpson)-a sweeping, candid conversation on film, canons & the digital age.
From PSYCHO to Pedro Costa, a master thinker reflects on a life in cinema.
Order direct from SPB in U.K. or U.S. for a discount!
In a new feature to accompany our Noir and the Blacklist collection on @criterionchannl, Imogen Sara Smith writes on how the exiled American director Cy Endfield depicted crime and violence as the inevitable results of capitalist competition. https://t.co/S3VISB0NQX
For Screen Slate I interviewed Alexander Horwath about his excellent new doc Henry Fonda for President, now playing at @AnthologyFilm https://t.co/V0VHZPASTF
Akira Kurosawa on Henri Verneuil's "Any Number Can Win" (1963):
"Henri Verneuil is a first-class suspense maker. "Any Number Can Win" (1963) is thrilling! The use of the music is also nice, modern. And he used Alain Delon and Jean Gabin very cleverly – they well and clearly portrayed their characters. Its monochromic pictures were also very sharply shot. Excellent."
[Quote taken from 'A dream is a Genius' edited by Bungeishunju, 1999 translated by Noriyo Hoozawa-Arkenau]