Most histories of the international cinema focus on the careers of prominent directors. But the authors of The Oxford History of World Cinema set cinematic genres, trends, and national themes at the fore, composing a history of the cinema that is equally a history of our multifarious world culture. Still, in deference to the older historical style, the text of this hefty book is dotted with hundreds of minibiographies on individual filmmakers. The result of this h… Buy The Oxford History of World Cinema at Amazon
French film star, Gerard Depardieus son Guillaume was laid to rest Friday in Bougival church in Yvelines, a suburb of Paris. Guillaume died Monday in a Paris area hospital from a bout of acute pne…
Waking Life is a film that never settles down. Or maybe it never wakes up. Regardless, Richard Linklater’s animated meditation seems to strike a perfect balance between the plotless meanderings of Slacker and the unquenchable knowledge-seeking of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha. Any way you look at it, this is a weird, original movie. As he attempts to figure out what separates dreams from reality, the protagonist (Dazed and Confused’s Wiley Wiggins) hears an earful from everyone he … Buy Waking Life at Amazon
Jim Jarmusch has been the cinema’s deadpan poet of lives in transit, from his breakthrough feature Stranger Than Paradise (1984) to Broken Flowers (2005). Limits of Control pretty much consists of deadpan and transit as it follows–make that contemplates–the mission of an enigmatic hitman through some picturesque but sparsely populated corners of Spain. Whom this “Lone Man” (Isaach De Bankolé) is supposed to kill and why are matters not shared with the viewer. Neither is the c… Buy The Limits of Control at Amazon
Spanning the length of Roger Ebert’s career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time. A great guide for movie watching.
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Roger Ebert is the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times and cohost of the national television program Ebert and Roeper. His reviews are syndicated internationally in more than 200 newspapers and available online at www.rogerebert.com. A… Buy Roger Ebert’s Four-Star Reviews 1967-2007 at Amazon
“[A]n outstanding contribution to the study of interrelationships between historical events and films that deal with those events….Every article is thought-provoking, thoroughly researched, and engaging; many contain information that is not generally known; all invite reassessment of media perspectives on the war.”–Choice
