Ed Lachman and New York remember Robert Frank: "Robert was the truest of poets but without words...his heart, mind and eye will always be missed...." Photo: Ed Bahlman
Robert Frank died on September 9, in Inverness, Nova Scotia, at the age of 94. He was the director of Me And My Brother on Julius and Peter Orlovsky, co-written by Sam Shepard; an infamous Rolling Stones documentary; Candy Mountain with Rudy Wurlitzer, and the short Pull My Daisy with Alfred Leslie, written by Jack Kerouac. Robert Frank, best known for his photography book The Americans, has been the subject of two recent documentaries.
The last time I saw Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf, was on June 1. They were sitting on the bench pictured here on Bleecker Street ... Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is Laura Israel’s Don't Blink: Robert Frank, shot by Edward Lachman and Lisa Rinzler, featuring archival footage of Allen Ginsberg,...
Robert Frank died on September 9, in Inverness, Nova Scotia, at the age of 94. He was the director of Me And My Brother on Julius and Peter Orlovsky, co-written by Sam Shepard; an infamous Rolling Stones documentary; Candy Mountain with Rudy Wurlitzer, and the short Pull My Daisy with Alfred Leslie, written by Jack Kerouac. Robert Frank, best known for his photography book The Americans, has been the subject of two recent documentaries.
The last time I saw Robert Frank and his wife June Leaf, was on June 1. They were sitting on the bench pictured here on Bleecker Street ... Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
There is Laura Israel’s Don't Blink: Robert Frank, shot by Edward Lachman and Lisa Rinzler, featuring archival footage of Allen Ginsberg,...
- 9/15/2019
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
It’s 1930s America as seen in the movies, through music, and the evasions of newsreels. Franklin Delano Roosevelt preaches prosperity while James Cagney slugs out the decade as a smart-tongued everyman — in a dozen different roles. Director Philippe Mora investigates what was then a new kind of revisionist info-tainment formula: applying old film footage to new purposes.
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
DVD
The Sprocket Vault
1975 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99 (also available in Blu-ray)
Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas
Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow
Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam
Directed by Philippe Mora
Years before he was briefly sidetracked into sequels for The Howling, Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker. Backed by producers Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam, his 1974 documentary Swastika pulled a controversial switch on the usual historical fare about...
Brother Can You Spare a Dime
DVD
The Sprocket Vault
1975 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 106 min. / Street Date ?, 2017 / available through The Sprocket Vault / 14.99 (also available in Blu-ray)
Film Editor: Jeremy Thomas
Research by Michael Barlow, Jennifer E. Ryan, Susan Winslow
Produced by Sanford Lieberson, David Puttnam
Directed by Philippe Mora
Years before he was briefly sidetracked into sequels for The Howling, Philippe Mora was an accomplished artist and documentary filmmaker. Backed by producers Sanford Lieberson and David Puttnam, his 1974 documentary Swastika pulled a controversial switch on the usual historical fare about...
- 6/19/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Hello again, and welcome to the recently resurrected Panel Discussions. I’m Kieran, and every week I’m going to go through some of the best comics of the week to give you an idea what you should pick up that you might have missed. This is another stacked week with some fantastic first issues and great jumping on points for books you might be behind on, so let’s take a look at what’s on offer.
The absolute must-buy this week is Rock Candy Mountain #2 by Kyle Starks and Chris Schwiezer. It’s a fantastic Image comic that’s flying under a lot of people’s radars, but this week is a great time to grab both the first and the second issues and explore the world of hobo mythology. The most stunning thing that Rock Candy Mountain accomplishes is that for all of its supernatural aspects and appearances of the actual Devil,...
The absolute must-buy this week is Rock Candy Mountain #2 by Kyle Starks and Chris Schwiezer. It’s a fantastic Image comic that’s flying under a lot of people’s radars, but this week is a great time to grab both the first and the second issues and explore the world of hobo mythology. The most stunning thing that Rock Candy Mountain accomplishes is that for all of its supernatural aspects and appearances of the actual Devil,...
- 5/10/2017
- by Kieran Shiach
- Nerdly
Long time ago, as I was coming out of one of those anonymous buildings that house the motion picture business, a lovely young woman smiled as though she recognized me. I didn’t recognize her, or almost anyone else in southern Califormia, so I had to assume that she had mistaken me for someone else: Director? Naw. Producer? Naw. Guy who changes the light bulbs? Maybe. Or did she perhaps think I was a writer? Well, as a matter of fact, that’s what I was. I had just been talking to an editor and a studio executive and been informed that a check would soon be forthcoming.
What I’d been doing there, that summer’s day in Hollywood, was pitching a story. My words were my pitch. Next part of the process would be a return to New York and the execution of a script. Now, I’d...
What I’d been doing there, that summer’s day in Hollywood, was pitching a story. My words were my pitch. Next part of the process would be a return to New York and the execution of a script. Now, I’d...
- 1/21/2016
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
I call them “cop shows” or, if I’m feeling a bit cutesy, “badge operas.” A screenwriting acquaintance says they’re “procedurals.” But never mind the label: by whatever name, they’re what constitutes most of the bread-and-butter television programming and you probably don’t have to go further than your nearest remote to find one.
There will be a pseudo family of protagonists – police, doctors, lawyers, feds, the occasional fire fighter or paramedic – and these people will be presented with a problem, usually one that involves injury done to an innocent party, and, using their skills and wit and such facilities as are provided to them, they will solve the problem. Usually, but not always, there is a happy ending appended to the story and once in a very great while, things end badly.
But don’t hold your breath waiting for that episode. Usually, by the rolling of the end credits,...
There will be a pseudo family of protagonists – police, doctors, lawyers, feds, the occasional fire fighter or paramedic – and these people will be presented with a problem, usually one that involves injury done to an innocent party, and, using their skills and wit and such facilities as are provided to them, they will solve the problem. Usually, but not always, there is a happy ending appended to the story and once in a very great while, things end badly.
But don’t hold your breath waiting for that episode. Usually, by the rolling of the end credits,...
- 5/14/2015
- by Dennis O'Neil
- Comicmix.com
Above: 1964 poster for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920).
I’ve written a lot about the German designer Hans Hillmann in these pages and elsewhere, and the current exhibition running through September 27 at the Kemistry Gallery is a must-see if you’re in London (there are some great images of the exhibit here if you’re not), but I only recently came across the work of a peer and compatriot of Hillmann’s, Karl Oskar Blase. Born the same year as Hillmann, on March 24, 1925, and now in his late 80s, Blase was, like Hillmann, a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Art director of the German design magazine Form, Blase designed every cover of the magazine from 1957 to 1968. He is also renowned as a designer of stamps.
Throughout the 1960s Blase also designed film posters for the revival house Atlas Films (as did Hillmann). His posters are mostly a...
I’ve written a lot about the German designer Hans Hillmann in these pages and elsewhere, and the current exhibition running through September 27 at the Kemistry Gallery is a must-see if you’re in London (there are some great images of the exhibit here if you’re not), but I only recently came across the work of a peer and compatriot of Hillmann’s, Karl Oskar Blase. Born the same year as Hillmann, on March 24, 1925, and now in his late 80s, Blase was, like Hillmann, a professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. Art director of the German design magazine Form, Blase designed every cover of the magazine from 1957 to 1968. He is also renowned as a designer of stamps.
Throughout the 1960s Blase also designed film posters for the revival house Atlas Films (as did Hillmann). His posters are mostly a...
- 9/14/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
As it turns out, Candy Mountain is located somewhere in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Charlie the Unicorn, the beloved star of one of YouTube's first viral hits, will make his third appearance at Burning Man. A vehicle bearing his likeness will cruise through the festival, and thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, it will be souped up with some sparkly upgrades. The Charlie car first appeared at Burning Man in 2011, and made a return trip the next year (serving as a portable dance party). For its 3rd straight appearance, its creators are taking things to the next level; thanks to the money they raised, Charlie will be outfitted with a rope light tail, a rainbow Led laser on his horn, and lots of other colorful gizmos. The original Charlie the Unicorn video hit Newgrounds in 2005, back when YouTube was still a glint in Chad Hurley's eye. His 'official'...
- 7/8/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Ed Burns, whose debut film The Brothers McMullen premiered at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, was announced today as a jury member for next month’s Sundance in Park City, Utah. Burns joins documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, executive Tom Rothman and 16 others named to five juries that will award prizes at independent film’s most high-profile showcase.
Short Film Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Jan. 22, with feature film awards announced at a separate ceremony on Jan. 26. The festival runs this year from Jan. 17-27.
Click below for the entire Sundance jury list:
U.S. Documentary Jury
Liz Garbus is a prolific documentary filmmaker.
Short Film Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Jan. 22, with feature film awards announced at a separate ceremony on Jan. 26. The festival runs this year from Jan. 17-27.
Click below for the entire Sundance jury list:
U.S. Documentary Jury
Liz Garbus is a prolific documentary filmmaker.
- 12/19/2012
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside Movies
The sexual politics of The Inbetweeners are deceptively nuanced and really quite moral – it should be a set text in gender studies
Ok, so it's the oldest plot in the book. Boy meets boy meets boy meets boy meets not enough girls, they get together into a hit sitcom then go off on holiday together in a disappointing big screen spin-off. It's enough to make you nostalgic for Are You Being Served?
Is The Inbetweeners Movie any different? No, not really. It is understandably targeting a Farrelly-weaned, young adult, summer holiday audience. It is predictably heavy on the puerile, gross-out gags and teen holiday set-pieces, light on the clever one-liners and unfolding pathos that gave the series such an edge.
It's not a great film, but it has its laughs and it puts a feel-good full stop on a modern comedy masterpiece. As with any successful sitcom, audiences will be...
Ok, so it's the oldest plot in the book. Boy meets boy meets boy meets boy meets not enough girls, they get together into a hit sitcom then go off on holiday together in a disappointing big screen spin-off. It's enough to make you nostalgic for Are You Being Served?
Is The Inbetweeners Movie any different? No, not really. It is understandably targeting a Farrelly-weaned, young adult, summer holiday audience. It is predictably heavy on the puerile, gross-out gags and teen holiday set-pieces, light on the clever one-liners and unfolding pathos that gave the series such an edge.
It's not a great film, but it has its laughs and it puts a feel-good full stop on a modern comedy masterpiece. As with any successful sitcom, audiences will be...
- 8/19/2011
- by Ally Fogg
- The Guardian - Film News
22 December 2000: Number 49 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk music
The soundtrack that awoke the Us to a musical heritage it had forgotten it owned. Released in late 2000, the Coen brothers' depression-era romp about three escaped convicts – a revisioning of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey in the deep south of 1930s America – came with a rich showcase of antique folk and country assembled by producer T-Bone Burnett. Packed with gorgeous gospel from Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, plaintive bluegrass from veteran Ralph Stanley, and lovable vintage such as Big Rock Candy Mountain, the album went on to sell more than 7m copies in the Us alone.
Folk musicCoen brothersNeil Spencer
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The soundtrack that awoke the Us to a musical heritage it had forgotten it owned. Released in late 2000, the Coen brothers' depression-era romp about three escaped convicts – a revisioning of Homer's epic poem The Odyssey in the deep south of 1930s America – came with a rich showcase of antique folk and country assembled by producer T-Bone Burnett. Packed with gorgeous gospel from Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, plaintive bluegrass from veteran Ralph Stanley, and lovable vintage such as Big Rock Candy Mountain, the album went on to sell more than 7m copies in the Us alone.
Folk musicCoen brothersNeil Spencer
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- 6/15/2011
- by Neil Spencer
- The Guardian - Film News
Updated through 5/6.
The series Anthology Film Archives is running from Friday through May 5, Drop Edges of Yonder: The Films of Rudy Wurlitzer, takes its name from Wurlitzer's 2008 novel and complements the relatively recent reprinting of his first three, Nog (1969), Flats (1970) and Quake (1974). And the series features more than films. Drag City has released an audio version of Wurlitzer's 1984 novel Slow Fade narrated by Will Oldham and, on Friday evening, Oldham and Wurlitzer himself, accompanied by musician Ben Chasny, will be giving something of a performance built on what Joe O'Brien, introducing his 2008 interview with Wurlitzer for Arthur Magazine, calls "a dark, masterful novel written in a more straightforward style than his earlier work. It is set in the divergent worlds of Hollywood and India, and finally Nova Scotia, and exudes a spiritual exhaustion tied in with frustrations with the shuck and jive of the film business." Wurlitzer and Oldham won't be winging it,...
The series Anthology Film Archives is running from Friday through May 5, Drop Edges of Yonder: The Films of Rudy Wurlitzer, takes its name from Wurlitzer's 2008 novel and complements the relatively recent reprinting of his first three, Nog (1969), Flats (1970) and Quake (1974). And the series features more than films. Drag City has released an audio version of Wurlitzer's 1984 novel Slow Fade narrated by Will Oldham and, on Friday evening, Oldham and Wurlitzer himself, accompanied by musician Ben Chasny, will be giving something of a performance built on what Joe O'Brien, introducing his 2008 interview with Wurlitzer for Arthur Magazine, calls "a dark, masterful novel written in a more straightforward style than his earlier work. It is set in the divergent worlds of Hollywood and India, and finally Nova Scotia, and exudes a spiritual exhaustion tied in with frustrations with the shuck and jive of the film business." Wurlitzer and Oldham won't be winging it,...
- 5/6/2011
- MUBI
This week’s Must Read is on the brief side, so now you have no excuse not to read it. Animation god Bill Plympton is self-distributing his latest feature Idiots & Angels and he’s keeping a diary about how that’s going. His second piece goes into the reasons of why he has to self-distribute in the first place. That Plympton — a god, I tell you, a god! — has so much trouble getting his films out there is a sad, sorry commentary on lots of things. The Melbourne Underground Film Festival has been going on this past week and The Age profiled Joseph Sims, the director of the closing night film Bad Behavior. Meanwhile, the Maroondah Leader profiled Matt Cleaves, director of the short film Radev. And an anonymous female blogger writes about seeing Road Train at Muff. Via Professor Tryon, there’s a piece on IndieWire by Anne Thompson...
- 8/29/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
2K Sports today announced the soundtrack for NBA 2K11 will feature an original, exclusive track from Snoop Dogg, along with other notable artists, including Outkast.s Big Boi, Drake, Kid Cudi, Two Door Cinema Club, The Constellations, and The Alan Parsons Project. Following is a complete track list for NBA 2K11: 1. Snoop Dogg . NBA 2K Theme2. Big Boi . Shutterbug3. Drake - Over4. Cassidy . Game Time5. Ron Artest . Champion6. Duck-Down All-Stars feat. Buckshot, Skyzoo, Promise, and Sean Price . Better Than You7. The Alan Parsons Project - Sirius8. Art vs. Science . Hollywood9. Big Rock Candy Mountain . Rocketship10. Brunettes . Red Rollerskates11. Chicharones . Little By Little12. Children Collide . Skeleton Dance13. Constellations feat.
- 7/30/2010
- by Hector Cortez
- Monsters and Critics
After regularly watching "The Late Late Show," following Craig Ferguson on Twitter, and reading American on Purpose all at the same time, I started to feel a bit stalker-y. It's both strange and wonderful how easy it is to connect with the people we enjoy, and while there's the argument to be made about too much access ruining the mystery, it's not all bad. In fact, all this compulsive openness can make it easier to see through layers of professional shite. There's no middleman, no publicist, just one person unloading their brain in whatever way they see fit.
Much like his monologue, and much like his tweets, Craig Ferguson's memoir is self-deprecating, funny and honest. And unlike the majority of celebrity memoirs out there, I fully believe he wrote it himself; I've read his novel, Between the Bridge and the River, and it's fantastic. With American on Purpose, I...
Much like his monologue, and much like his tweets, Craig Ferguson's memoir is self-deprecating, funny and honest. And unlike the majority of celebrity memoirs out there, I fully believe he wrote it himself; I've read his novel, Between the Bridge and the River, and it's fantastic. With American on Purpose, I...
- 4/13/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
As Cinema Retro 'regulars' know, we have occasionally been able to find unpublished or rarely-seen interviews with legendary film personalities and provide them for our readers. In issue #1 of the magazine, Steve Mori provided an unseen interview Steve McQueen from 1968 and in issue #15, Steve did the same with a fascinating 1974 discussion with Lee Marvin. Now contributing writer Kris Gilpin has been kind enough to share with us with a 1988 interview with director Monte Hellman, whose work is revered by some of the great directors of our time. Please keep in mind that the text and events that are discussed in this interview took place in 1988 and have not been amended. (This is part one of a two-part interview.)
Interview With Monte Hellman
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Born July 12th, 1932 in New York City, writer-director Monte Hellman’s work is miles above typical American...
Interview With Monte Hellman
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Born July 12th, 1932 in New York City, writer-director Monte Hellman’s work is miles above typical American...
- 12/28/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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