Although with regard to career chronology Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss) marks the culmination of Fassbinder’s so-called “BRD (Budesrepublik Deutschland) Trilogy”, its narrative in fact positions it as the second work in this celebrated series and its pointed interrogation of wartime and postwar Germany. It is set in 1955, specifically between Die ehe [...]
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Following the quasi-documentary Konkurs (Audition, 1964), Cerný Petr (Black Peter) marked the feature debut of Milos Forman, the most famous, arguably most important and influential director of the Czech New Wave of the 1960s. It was shot simultaneously with “Kdyby ty muziky nebyly “If There Were No Music”, the second of the two shorts that [...]
“I don’t trust inner feelings. Inner feelings come and go.” – Leonard Cohen The above quote, from Cohen’s song “That Don’t Make it Junk”, could well be taken as a mission statement for the emotionally tormented characters that populate the singular cinematic world of Eric Rohmer. The battleground for this director is almost exclusively the [...]
The Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko completed only five features in her tragically short career (she was killed in a car accident in 1979). But even over the course of such a brief working life she produced a remarkably cohesive oeuvre, and developed a powerful aesthetic and vision that distinguished her from her more famous and [...]
Rece do góry/Hands Up! (1967/1981 Poland) Prod Co: PRF/Syrena/Zespol Filmowy Dir, Art Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski Scr: Andrzej Kostenko, Jerzy Skolimowski Phot: Andrzej Kostenko, Witold Sobocinski Ed: Grazyna Jasinska Mus: Józef Skrzek Cast: Jerzy Skolimowski, Joanna Szczerbic, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Adam Hanuszkiewicz, Bogumil Kobiela, Alan Bates, Jane Asher, Fred Zinnemann, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta Films, Jean-Luc Godard once said, [...]
Lacombe, Lucien (1974 France/West Germany/Italy 137 mins) Prod Co: Nouvelles Éditions de Films/UPF (Paris)/Vides Film (Rome)/Hallelujah Films (Munich) Prod: Louis Malle, Claude Nedjar Dir: Louis Malle Scr: Louis Malle, Patrick Modiano Phot: Tonino Dell Colli Ed: Suzanne Baron Art Dir: Ghislain Uhry Mus: Songs by Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club de [...]
La Sentinelle (1992 France 139 mins) Prod Co: Why Not Productions/2001 Audiovisuel/La Sept Cinéma/Films A2 Prod: Nicole Arbib, Pascal Caucheteux, Grégoire Sorlat Dir: Arnaud Desplechin Scr: Arnaud Desplechin, Pascale Ferran, Noémie Lvovsky, Emmanuel Salinger Phot: Olivier Chambon, Caroline Champetier, Julien Hirsch, Arthur Le Caisne Ed: François Gédigier Prod Des: Antoine Platteau Mus: Marc Oliver Sommer [...]
Man of Marble/Czlowiek z marmuru (1977 Poland 165 mins) Prod Co: Film Polski Film Agency/Zespól Filmowy “X” Dir: Andrzej Wajda Scr: Aleksander Scibor-Ryiski Phot: Edward Klosinski Ed: Halina Prugar-Ketling Prod Des: Wojciech Majda, Allan Starski Mus: Andrzej Korzynski Cast: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki, Michal Tarkowski, Piotr Cieslak In Poland art fulfils [...]
The Ear/Ucho (1970 Czechoslovakia 94 mins) Prod Co: Filmové Studio Barrandov Prod: Karel Vejrík Dir: Karel Kachyna Scr: Jan Procházka, Karel Kachyna, based on the story by Ladislav Winkelhöfer Phot: Josef Illík Ed: Miroslav Hájek Art Dir: Oldrich Okác Mus: Svatopluk Havelka Cast: Jirina Bohdalová, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jirí Císler, Miroslav Holub, Milica Kolofiková, Galina Kopaneva [...]
La Soufrière (1976 West Germany 33 mins) Prod Co: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Prod, Dir: Werner Herzog Phot: Ed Lachman, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein Ed: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus Apocalyptic scenarios have featured extensively in the inimitable work of New German Cinema luminary Werner Herzog. Tellingly, they fall into two categories that coincide with the (broad) distinction that has structured [...]
Shin Heike Monogatari/New Tales of the Taira Clan (1955 Japan 113 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Daiei Prod: Masaichi Nagata Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi Scr: Masashige Narusawa, Kyuchi Tsuji, Yoshikata Yoda, Eiji Yoshikawa Phot: Kazuo Miyagawa, Kohei Sugiyama Art Dir: Akira Naito Mus: Fumio Hayasaka, Masaru Sato Cast: Narutoshi Hayashi, Raizo Ichikawa, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Michiyo Kogure, Akitake Kono, [...]
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978 Australia 124 mins) Source: NFSA Prod, Dir: Fred Schepisi Scr: Fred Schepisi, based on Thomas Keneally’s novel Phot: Ian Baker Ed: Brian Kavanagh Prod Des: Wendy Dickson Mus: Bruce Smeaton Cast: Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Angela Punch, Steve Dodds The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith was [...]
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994 Austria 96 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Marie Homolkova Prod Des: Christoph Kanter Cast: Gabriel Cosmin Urdes, Lukas Miko, Otto Grünmandl, Anne Bennent, Udo Samel, Branko Samarovski Michael Haneke is one of the [...]
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Toda-ke no Kyoodai) (Japan 1941 105 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shochiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Tadao Ikeda, Yasujiro Ozu Phot: Yuharu Atsuta Art Dir: Tatsuo Hamada Mus: Senji Itô Cast: Hideo Fujino, Ayako Katsuragi, Mieko Takamine, Shin Saburi, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Masao Hayama, Tatsuo Saito, Kuniko Miyake, Chishu [...]
Pocket Money (1972 USA 102 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: National General Pictures Prod: John Foreman Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Scr: John Gay, Terrence Malick, from the novel Jim Kane by J. P. S. Brown Phot: Laszlo Kovacs Ed: Bob Wyman Art Dir: Tambi Larsen Mus: Alex North Cast: Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, [...]
Earth/Zemlya (1930 USSR 83 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Wufku Dir, Scr, Ed: Alexander Dovzhenko Phot: Daniil Demutsky Art Dir: Visili Krichevsky Cast: Stepan Shkurat, Semyon Svashenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Yelena Maksimova, Nikolai Nademsky, Ivan Franko David Thomson, in his A Biographical Dictionary of Film, notes that Alexander Dovzhenko was: “The first intensely personal artist in [...]
b. September 27, 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA filmography bibliography web resources Little Big Man The career of Arthur Penn has had, to say the least, its ups and downs, its peaks and valleys. For much of the 1960s and early 1970s he was at the forefront of a new generation of directors (including Sidney Lumet, [...]
