Category Archives: Directors

SFIFF 56: State of the Cinema by Steven Soderbergh

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

The prolific and ever-curious Steven Soderbergh has made 28 feature films in his almost 30-year career, most which are critically-acclaimed and/or financially successful films: the Ocean’s trilogy, Traffic, Out of Sight, Contagion, Che, and my favorite, Sex, Lies and Videotape. … Continue reading →

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Fashion and Film, Spring 2013

Posted on April 10, 2013 by

Perhaps it’s just a post-fashion week hangover, or perhaps everyone is jumping on a bandwagon which has been there since the love affair started. Whether it’s fashion referencing film, film directing fashion, film posing for fashion…there’s something for everyone.

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Ang Lee on Ingmar Bergman

Woody Allen and Ang Lee should together moderate a Bergman film fest.

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Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola for Prada

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Hable con Ella (Talk to Her) (2002)

Posted on March 17, 2013 by

I enjoy the way in which Almodóvar can render the unusual as perfectly normal. Sympathetic girl-next-door nuns; long-lost transsexual fathers; mothers raised from the dead; novelists who waver between hysteria and flinty pragmatism – Almodóvar reminds us that we are … Continue reading →

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The Sensation of Things Perceived: In the Mood for Love (2000)

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

When directors try to capture three dimensions – that is, life – in what is essentially a two-dimensional medium, interesting things happen. This particular constraint of the film media produces an opportunity to create a richness of feeling that takes … Continue reading →

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Creativity and Constraint: 8 1/2 (1963)

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

In many ways, director Guido Anselmi is just a grown-up version of Fellini’s earlier I Vitelloni. He is absurdly if charmingly irresponsible, but without a hint of malice (to his credit the understated Marcello Mastroianni doesn’t try too hard to … Continue reading →

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Star Wars Episode VII: Auteur Edition

Also: As done by Michael Moore and Woody Allen.

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Pier Paolo Pasolini@MoMA: Teorema (1968)

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

While Teorema is difficult for me to watch (talk about disrupting the bourgeois expectation of linearity), I adore its dreamy quality. Dreamy because of the unhampered Milanese bourgeois life, because of the random, misplaced, but inevitable sexual encounters which take … Continue reading →

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Pier Paolo Pasolini@MoMA: Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo (1964)

Posted on December 20, 2012 by

One of my favorite films in PPP’s oeuvre, this was very moving to watch on the big screen. This wonderfully-restored 35mm version has lost none of its power, its wonder, and its faith. I am not particularly keen on biblical … Continue reading →

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