It seems more and more like audiences, critics, and creatives alike are taking an extensive look at which kinds of filmmakers get to tell which particular stories. Historically, of course, white men have predominantly exerted their influence over every genre and culture -- regardless of whether or not it was truly their place to wade into such waters in the first place. Yet even this can be subject to intense debate. To use a recent, high-profile example, it's a fine line between "Oppenheimer" director Christopher Nolan omitting the actual bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to make such horrific acts hit that much harder ... versus interpretations that claim neglecting to focus on the suffering of Japan was a crucial misstep.
It's into this potential quagmire that legendary director Martin Scorsese is releasing "Killers of the Flower Moon." Based on the 2017 book by author David Grann, the film documents the sinister string...
It's into this potential quagmire that legendary director Martin Scorsese is releasing "Killers of the Flower Moon." Based on the 2017 book by author David Grann, the film documents the sinister string...
- 10/18/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Josephine Baker, the trailblazing American-born entertainer and civil rights activist, is the first Black woman to be laid to rest at France’s Pantheon.
The Parisian monument is dedicated to iconic figures that have left a decisive imprint on French history, including the writers Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, resistance hero Jean Moulin and politician Simone Weil. Baker is only one of the six women to have received this rare honor, along with Weil, scientist Marie Curie, chemist Marcellin Berthelot and resistance figures Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Athonioz. Baker’s remains will stay in Monaco, where she was buried, but her presence at the Pantheon is commemorated with a plaque on a cenotaph.
President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Baker’s legacy during an official ceremony held at the Pantheon attended by hundreds of people on Tuesday. Macron called Baker “a war hero, fighter, dancer, singer,...
The Parisian monument is dedicated to iconic figures that have left a decisive imprint on French history, including the writers Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo and Emile Zola, resistance hero Jean Moulin and politician Simone Weil. Baker is only one of the six women to have received this rare honor, along with Weil, scientist Marie Curie, chemist Marcellin Berthelot and resistance figures Germaine Tillion and Geneviève de Gaulle-Athonioz. Baker’s remains will stay in Monaco, where she was buried, but her presence at the Pantheon is commemorated with a plaque on a cenotaph.
President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to Baker’s legacy during an official ceremony held at the Pantheon attended by hundreds of people on Tuesday. Macron called Baker “a war hero, fighter, dancer, singer,...
- 11/30/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The days are getting shorter, the temperature is (theoretically) dropping, and the holidays are looming around the corner like Leatherface himself, so there’s no better time to revisit one of scariest shows in television history: NBC’s “Hannibal.”
Perhaps the most unlikely network drama of all time, what with its focus on fiction’s greatest villain, cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and its commitment to creating lurid and macabre death tableaus, “Hannibal” aired a scant 39 episodes before concluding with its third and final season in 2015.
And while much was made at the time about the Bryan Fuller-crafted series being a better fit for, well, almost any other network, the truth of why “Hannibal” wasn’t a bigger hit with audiences is because the timing wasn’t quite right.
Now things might be different.
To dally in the world of Lecter is to make yourself at home with a sophisticate...
Perhaps the most unlikely network drama of all time, what with its focus on fiction’s greatest villain, cannibalistic psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and its commitment to creating lurid and macabre death tableaus, “Hannibal” aired a scant 39 episodes before concluding with its third and final season in 2015.
And while much was made at the time about the Bryan Fuller-crafted series being a better fit for, well, almost any other network, the truth of why “Hannibal” wasn’t a bigger hit with audiences is because the timing wasn’t quite right.
Now things might be different.
To dally in the world of Lecter is to make yourself at home with a sophisticate...
- 10/24/2019
- by Libby Hill
- Indiewire
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Eric Rohmer's The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) is playing August 12 - September 11, 2017 on Mubi in the United KingdomThe Romance of Astrea and Celadon was the final feature Rohmer completed before his death, and his 5th period piece (following The Marquis of O, Perceval, The Lady and the Duke and Triple Agent). It is constructed around a handful of aesthetic principles: its action is confined to a handful of locations, mostly pastoral exteriors; the camera is either static or moving along a brief lateral pan; dialogues are captured in wide masters, cushioned by a border of negative space; alternate angles and reverse shots are rare; non-diegetic sound is avoided in favor of foregrounding the ambient sounds of the natural environment—the rustling of leaves, water running in a stream, distant birdsong (and this birdsong was the only element of the audio added in post-production,...
- 8/11/2017
- MUBI
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jean-Luc Godard's La gai savoir (1969) is showing from January 18 - February 17, 2017 in many countries around the world as part of the retrospective For Ever Godard.Le gai savoir (Joy of Learning, 1969) is a film by Jean-Luc Godard which, unlike classics such as Breathless (1960) or Contempt (1963) is hardly a household name. Godard’s Weekend (1967) gives us an inkling of what is to come in its postscript production credit: What translates to mean “End of story” and then “End of cinema” flashes in blue lettering on a black backdrop; a moment later, we see that this word game has been created using a statement of the film’s visa control number. Of course, Godard had already been engaging in this kind of word play for years in his credits and intertitles. Although these statements could also be taken as being typical,...
- 2/6/2017
- MUBI
Idiosyncratic French film-maker who was a leading figure in the cinema of the postwar new wave
In Arthur Penn's intelligently unconventional private eye thriller Night Moves (1975), Gene Hackman's hero – who finds the mystery he faces as unfathomable as his personal relationships – is asked by his wife whether he wants to go to an Eric Rohmer movie. "I don't think so," he says. "I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry."
Behind that exchange lies a jab at Hollywood's mistrust of any film-maker, especially a French one, who neglects plot and action in favour of cerebral exploration, metaphysical conceit and moral nuance. The Dream Factory, after all, had proved through trial and error that cinema is cinema, literature is literature, and the twain shall meet only provided the images rule, not the words.
Of the major American film-makers, perhaps only Joseph Mankiewicz allowed his scripts,...
In Arthur Penn's intelligently unconventional private eye thriller Night Moves (1975), Gene Hackman's hero – who finds the mystery he faces as unfathomable as his personal relationships – is asked by his wife whether he wants to go to an Eric Rohmer movie. "I don't think so," he says. "I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kind of like watching paint dry."
Behind that exchange lies a jab at Hollywood's mistrust of any film-maker, especially a French one, who neglects plot and action in favour of cerebral exploration, metaphysical conceit and moral nuance. The Dream Factory, after all, had proved through trial and error that cinema is cinema, literature is literature, and the twain shall meet only provided the images rule, not the words.
Of the major American film-makers, perhaps only Joseph Mankiewicz allowed his scripts,...
- 1/13/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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