Author Carloss James Chamberlin

The Austrian Film Museum’s excellent DVD of Vertov’s Entuziazm affords the occasion for an insightful essay on the work of this legendary Soviet filmmaker.

Good Night, and Good Luck as radical political cinema? Chamberlin astutely states the case for Clooney’s smuggler’s instinct for getting subversive political thought into mainstream cinema.

For many, the films of Nick Ray are a litmus test for the pros and cons of la politique des auteurs. This article provides the most extensive analysis to date of the elusive ‘Nick Ray Style’.

A unique interpretation of Clint Eastwood's much-praised film that counters much of the more straightforward readings of the film as a humanist melodrama.

An essay that travels upriver from a viewing of this unique, probing film to that black sheep of twentieth century German philosophy, Martin Heidegger, and beyond.

Le Bonheur/Happiness (1965 France 79 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Parc Film Prod: Mag Bodard Dir, Scr: Agnès Varda Phot: Claude Beausoleil, Jean Rabier Ed: Janine Verneau Art Dir: Hubert Monloup Mus: W.A. ...

PARK CITY – An overwarmed room somewhere in the Sodom of the Wasatch. People are looking at me with dog-eyes. They flit them down to my press-pass, which, to torture them, I have half tucked into my jacket....

Revenge, innocence and the search for lost time are among the many motifs touched upon in this bold and original exegesis of one of Eastwood's most complex works.

b. April 25, 1941, Lyon, France filmography bibliography web resources In his memoirs, he writes of his ambivalence towards the air raids. At first he took shelter, but as the raids became more famili...

Despair/Eine Reise ins Licht (1977 West Germany/France 119 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Bavaria Studios/La Societe Francaise de Production Prod: Peter Märthesheimer Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Scr: ...

Lisbon Story (1994 Germany/France 105 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Mikado Film Prod: Paulo Branco, Joao Canijo, Ulrich Felsberg, Wim Wenders Dir, Scr: Wim Wenders Phot: Lisa Rinzler Ed: Peter Przygoda...