Leonardo DiCaprio is set to debut his new documentary the 11th Hour. It seems to be similar to An Inconvenient Truth, but it spends more time on the new technologies and ideas that will help us lessen our footprint. NYT | Video | LA Times View full entry
“I was mesmerized by "L'Avventura" and by Antonioni's subsequent films, and it was the fact that they were unresolved in any conventional sense that kept drawing me back. They posed mysteries - or rather the mystery, of who we are, what we are, to each other, to ourselves, to time.&rdquo... View full entry
To augment his income during a Swedish film studio shutdown in the 1950s, late director Ingmar Bergman made a series of avant-garde commercials for Bris soap. Slate Video | Previous View full entry
“There was, among certain filmgoers in the 1960s, an appetite for difficulty, a conviction that symbolic obscurity and psychological alienation were authentic responses to the state of the world. More than that, the idea that a difficult work had special value — that being challenged... View full entry
Michelangelo Antonioni , the Italian director whose chilly canticles of alienation were cornerstones of international filmmaking in the 1960s, inspiring intense measures of admiration, denunciation and confusion, died on Monday at his home in Rome, Italian news media reported today. He was 94. He... View full entry
Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film director widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, has died. He was 89. Al Jazeera The second coming of Bergmania: Six takes on a Swedish master's spiritual investigations. the village voice View full entry
Instead of reviewing the Simpsons Movie, slate has taken a look at the environmental themes throughout the show's history. Slate Video View full entry
Kovacs lensed the landmark cinematic achievements as Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces among others. Hollywood Reporter View full entry
A review of the documentary Manufacured Landscapes, directed by Jennifer Baichwala about Edward Burtynsky's monumentally sublime photographic safaris into the ugly industrialized corners of the world. So is this the Koyaanisqatsi of the new millennium? NYT [The film]is partly a Great Man... View full entry
“To make Czech Dream, two student filmmakers out-flimflammed all their fellow prankumentarians by bamboozling an entire central European nation. Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda orchestrated a multi-million-dollar marketing campaign for the grand opening of a new superstore that... View full entry
My favorite local film institution, Facets has released a collection of 4 excellent documentaries on dvd by the great renegade Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara. I highly recommend The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. Stopsmiling l Hara Interview w/ Rail l Hara Interview @ Dartmouth View full entry
At an early point in his career, probably no later than 1930, Walt Disney lost the ability to draw what he wanted his cartoon characters to look like or his animations to do. So he began to act his cartoons out. LRB View full entry
“In some ways a suburban city can be understood as an intolerant city.” If that loaded quotation from the Calgary-based architect Marc Boutin doesn’t tell you exactly where “Radiant City” stands on the issue of suburban sprawl, the filmmakers have plenty more just... View full entry
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", a Romanian film about illegal abortion won the Palme d’Or in Cannes. NYT l Festival de Cannes. A personal favorite, best screenplay goes to Fatih Akin’s "The Edge of Heaven." Clip from the Edge. View full entry
Geoff's recent sci-fi architecture film fest got some great coverage in Wired, go check it out for those who could not attend. Way to go G! (And look for a new round of films on May 22nd) View full entry
