Gimme Shelter (1970) is a documentary film about the last ten days of the 1969 Rolling Stones tour. The film was directed by brother documentarians Albert and David Maysles. It is best known today for having captured footage of the murder of a black man by a Hells Angels security guard at the Altamont Speedway . . . → Read More: GIMME SHELTER (1970): AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN SEMPER
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“[Günter Grass] called our [first draft] script ‘Protestant and Cartesian.’ It was lacking the irrational dimension of time, the nodal points where everything becomes confused and collapses in an illogical and tragicomic way. He wants more hard realism on the one hand, and on the other, more courage in the unreal. Imagination as a part . . . → Read More: 137. THE TIN DRUM [DIE BLECHTROMMEL] (1979) People often say that we have lost Christ, we have lost Mary. Living in the 21st century, I am, perhaps, more concerned that we have lost Chaplin‘s Tramp. Easter is not Mel Gibson’s blood-soaked sadism posed as religious dogma. Rather, it’s Fred Astaire and Judy Garland strolling down an Easter Parade. Christmas is not Cecil . . . → Read More: CHAPLIN’S MODERN TIMES (1936) CRITERION COLLECTION “What a rotten film, all we meet are crazy people.”–Roland DIRECTED BY: Jean-Luc Godard FEATURING: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne PLOT: Corrine and Roland are a married couple who are cheating on each other and who hope to inherit money from Corrine’s dying father. They set off on a weekend trip to travel to the father’s . . . → Read More: 130. WEEKEND (1967) The Criterion Collection’s remastered The Gold Rush (1925) is undoubtedly the Charlie Chaplin release of 2012. For years, the prevailing critical consensus was that Gold Rush was Chaplin’s feature film masterpiece. However, a newer generation of critics have since argued that honor should go instead to City Lights (1931). The Gold Rush receives criticism for its episodic structure; . . . → Read More: CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S THE GOLD RUSH (1925) CRITERION COLLECTION DIRECTED BY: Rainer Werner Fassbinder FEATURING: Klaus Löwitsch, Mascha Rabben, Barbara Valentin, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau PLOT: A computer programmer assigned to run a virtual reality world after his superior goes insane finds himself paranoid about the motives of his government bosses, and wonders if someone else might ultimately be behind the project. WHY IT MIGHT . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: WORLD ON A WIRE (1973) DIRECTED BY: Hollis Frampton FEATURING: N/A PLOT: The prologue is a reading from the “Bay State Primer.” The main body of the film cycles through one second shots of signs each beginning with a successive letter of the Roman alphabet; each letter is gradually removed and replaced by a scene of waves or grain or . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: ZORNS LEMMA (1970) AKA Otto e Mezzo; Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 CLAUDIA: Let’s leave this place. It makes me uneasy. It doesn’t seem real. GUIDO: I really like it. Isn’t that odd? DIRECTED BY: Federico Fellini FEATURING: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Claudia Cardinale, Barbara Steele, Edra Gale PLOT: Full of doubts and very near . . . → Read More: 121. 8 1/2 (1963)  3 comments  Certifed Weird (The List)  1963, Academy Award Winner, Arthouse, Autobiographical, Barbara Steele, Black and White, Criterion collection, Drama, Existential, Federico Fellini, Italian, Marcello Mastroianni, Must see, Nonlinear, Psychological, Reflexive, Stream of consciousness, The creative process, Writer's block AKA Sunless “It is tempting, and not unjustified, to speculate that one reason for Marker’s growing visibility and popularity is that, as a culture, we have now finally caught up with works that once seemed like dispatches from another planet…”–Catherine Lupton, “Chris Marker: Memory’s Apostle” (2007 Criterion Collection essay) DIRECTED BY: Chris Marker FEATURING: . . . → Read More: 111. SANS SOLEIL (1983) DIRECTED BY: Jacques Tati FEATURING: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek PLOT: Monsieur Hulot gets lost on his way to an appointment and wanders around a nearly unrecognizable, technologically transformed Paris. WHY IT SHOULD MAKE THE LIST: Play Time is about the alienating, isolating influence technology has on human beings. It’s not the standard elements of . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: PLAY TIME (1967) |
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