Colin MacCabe in a Chris Marker Cats Go Barack T-shirt Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger co-director Colin MacCabe and photographer Adam Bartos will be joined by Ben Lerner and Experimenter director Michael Almereyda for an In Chris Marker's Studio panel discussion following the screenings of Marker's Cat Listening To Music (Chat Écoutant La Musique), Ouvroir, Second Life featuring Guillaume-en-Égypte and excerpts from Agnès Varda's Agnès De Ci De Là Varda at Metrograph in New York.
Michael Almereyda's Escapes subject Hampton Fancher at BAMcinemaFest Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Almereyda's two latest films, Marjorie Prime (starring Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins) and his Hampton Fancher documentary Escapes will be released this summer in the Us.
Marker's Sans Soleil, Tokyo Days and his Le Joli Mai with Pierre Lhomme will be shown as part of the series celebrating another cat man.
The Seasons In Quincy: Four Portraits Of John Berger co-director Colin MacCabe and photographer Adam Bartos will be joined by Ben Lerner and Experimenter director Michael Almereyda for an In Chris Marker's Studio panel discussion following the screenings of Marker's Cat Listening To Music (Chat Écoutant La Musique), Ouvroir, Second Life featuring Guillaume-en-Égypte and excerpts from Agnès Varda's Agnès De Ci De Là Varda at Metrograph in New York.
Michael Almereyda's Escapes subject Hampton Fancher at BAMcinemaFest Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Almereyda's two latest films, Marjorie Prime (starring Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, Tim Robbins) and his Hampton Fancher documentary Escapes will be released this summer in the Us.
Marker's Sans Soleil, Tokyo Days and his Le Joli Mai with Pierre Lhomme will be shown as part of the series celebrating another cat man.
- 7/3/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Take a look at the roots of American campaign image consciousness, and the then-new techniques of cinéma vérité to bring a new 'reality' for film documentaries. Four groundbreaking films cover the Kennedy-Humphrey presidential primary, and put us in the Oval Office for a showdown against Alabama governor George Wallace. The Kennedy Films of Robert Drew & Associates Blu-ray Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, Faces of November The Criterion Collection 808 1960 -1964 / B&W / 1:33 flat full frame / 53, 52, 53, 12 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date April 26, 2016 / 39.95 Starring John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Drew, Hubert H. Humphrey, McGeorge Bundy, John Kenneth Galbraith, Richard Goodwin, Albert Gore Sr., Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Pierre Salinger, Haile Selassie, John Steinbeck, George Wallace, Vivian Malone, Burke Marshall, Nicholas Katzenbach, John Dore, Jack Greenberg; Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Peter Lawford. Cinematography Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker,...
- 4/15/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The masterful political documentaries of Chilean Guzmán, constitute a national epic for a beloved country traumatized for trying something new within a hostile political environment. How can one keep the memory of a national betrayal alive, after being forced into exile by a military dictator? How can the memory of a great national leader be kept alive, after so many dissidents were murdered or 'disappeared?' Five Films by Patricio Guzmán The Battle of Chile, Chile Obstinate Memory, The Pinochet Case, Salvador Allende, Nostalgia for the Light, Filming Obstinately Meeting Patricio Guzmán DVD Icarus Films Home Video 1975-2011 B&W-Color / 1:33 flat full frame 775 min. Street Date September 29, 2015 / 79.98 Directed by Patricio Guzmán
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A few years ago I reviewed Patricio Guzmán's The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory. In forty years of exile from his home country, Guzmán has continued to document the same historical trauma.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A few years ago I reviewed Patricio Guzmán's The Battle of Chile and Chile, Obstinate Memory. In forty years of exile from his home country, Guzmán has continued to document the same historical trauma.
- 10/13/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
If you missed the critically acclaimed drama Museum Hours last week, the Austin Film Society is bringing you one more chance to catch it on the big screen. You can check it out on Sunday afternoon at the Marchesa. That's also where you'll find a brand-new digital restoration of Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's 1963 documentary Le Joli Mai on Tuesday evening and the Essential Cinema screening of Ozu's Floating Weeds in 35mm on Thursday night.
The Drafthouse's new "Tough Ladies In Cinema" series delivers To Kill A Mockingbird this weekend. You can spend Saturday and Sunday afternoons with Scout and Atticus Finch at the Alamo Lakeline and Slaughter Lane locations. Slaugher also has an "Afternoon Tea" screening of Elizabeth on Saturday and a Bonnie and Clyde beer dinner on Sunday (also part of the Tough Ladies lineup).
The Alamo Ritz has a special Mondo Veterans Day presentation of Oliver Stone...
- 11/8/2013
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
Steve Apkon, Kent Jones, Joanne Koch and Richard Peña Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze In celebrating the New York Film Festival at 50 (1963-2012), what do Luis Buñuel's Exterminating Angel, Alain Resnais' Muriel, Chris Marker's Le Joli Mai, and Roman Polanski's Knife In The Water have in common? How about Lucrecia Martel's haunting La Ciénaga, Michael Moore's Roger And Me as first time filmmakers and Last Tango In Paris, In The Realm Of The Senses, The Marriage Of Maria Braun, Barfly, and This Is Not A Film?
New York Film Festival Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Jacob Burns Film Center Founder & Executive Director Steve Apkon moderated the discussion between Richard Peña, director of the New York Film Festival from 1988 to 2012, Joanne Koch, who was the executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Kent Jones, the present New York Film Festival Director of Programming,...
New York Film Festival Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze Jacob Burns Film Center Founder & Executive Director Steve Apkon moderated the discussion between Richard Peña, director of the New York Film Festival from 1988 to 2012, Joanne Koch, who was the executive director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Kent Jones, the present New York Film Festival Director of Programming,...
- 9/13/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In May 1962, a cease-fire was declared with colonial Algeria, marking the first time in 23 years that France was not at war. Filmmaker Chris Marker and cinematographer Pierre Lhomme took to the streets of Paris that month with a handheld camera (a new model also used by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin to film the contemporaneous ground-level doc Chronicle of a Summer) to interview a cross-section of the city's population about the state of their lives at that moment. The freshly restored time capsule Le Joli Mai (which will screen at Film Forum in Dcp) documents on-the-street talks with a wide variety of Paris residents. A mason cheerfully accepts the eternal need to work to earn money for himself and his family; a poor wife and mother thrills at finally receiving a new, gover...
- 9/11/2013
- Village Voice
Apart from the three sneak screening titles that will stir up the buzz in the coming days, Julie Huntsinger and Tom Luddy’s 40th edition of the Telluride Film Festival excels in bringing a concentration of solid docus from the likes of Errol Morris and Werner Herzog who this year cuts the ribbon on a theatre going by his name and introduces Death Row, a pinch of Berlin Film Fest items (Gloria, Slow Food Story, Fifi Howls from Happiness) Palme d’Or winner (this year Abdellatif Kechiche will be celebrated), upcoming Sony Pictures Classics items (Tim’s Vermeer, The Lunchbox), Venice to Telluride to Tiff titles (Bethlehem, Tracks and Under the Skin), the latest Jason Reitman film (Labor Day) and the barely known docu-home-movie whodunit (by helmers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine) The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden which features narration from the likes of Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger and Connie Nielsen.
- 8/28/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Over the years, the Toronto International Film Festival’s Cinematheque programme has given film fans an opportunity to watch old classics from world cinema on the big screen one more time. The 2013 incarnation of the Tiff Cinematheque programme sees seven critical favourites from yesteryear brought to life on the big screen. The films are:
- An Autumn Afternoon, the 1962 Japanese film by Yasujiro Ozu
- Gun Crazy, the 1950 American film by Joseph H. Lewis
- Hiroshima Mon Amour, the 1959 French/Japanese film by Alain Resnais
- Le Joli Mai, the 1963 French film by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme
- Manila in the Claws of Light, the 1975 Filipino film by Lino Brocka
- Rome, Open City, the 1945 Italian film by Roberto Rossellini
- Shivers, the 1975 Canadian film by David Cronenberg
Details of the movies screening at the programme can be found here. The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to the 15th.
- An Autumn Afternoon, the 1962 Japanese film by Yasujiro Ozu
- Gun Crazy, the 1950 American film by Joseph H. Lewis
- Hiroshima Mon Amour, the 1959 French/Japanese film by Alain Resnais
- Le Joli Mai, the 1963 French film by Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme
- Manila in the Claws of Light, the 1975 Filipino film by Lino Brocka
- Rome, Open City, the 1945 Italian film by Roberto Rossellini
- Shivers, the 1975 Canadian film by David Cronenberg
Details of the movies screening at the programme can be found here. The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to the 15th.
- 7/31/2013
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
The 2013 Toronto Film Festival selection grew quite a bit today as the organizers announced the Midnight Madness, Documentary, Vanguard, City to City and Cinematheque selections for this year's festival. Among the title announced there aren't exactly a ton of names that pop off the paper immediately. The Midnight Madness selection will open with Lucky McKee's All Cheerleaders Die in which a young girl who practices the dark arts turns on her best friend after she joins the cheer squad. However, I assume most attention will be on Eli Roth's The Green Inferno, a film in which a group of humanitarians go to the Amazon to help a native tribe only to have the tribe kidnap them and later learn their cannibalistic heritage is very much intact. The Documentary selection includes plenty of familiar faces such as Marcel Ophuls, Claude Lanzmann and Errol Morris and Frank Pavich will be bringing Jodorowsky's Dune,...
- 7/30/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New work from Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman will screen in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Tiff Docs strand, while City To City spotlights Athens and Alex Aja’s Horns is among the Vanguard offerings.
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
Festival staff remind readers that the following listing is not complete or final and is subject to change.
Premieres key
Wp = World PremiereIP = International PremiereNAP = North American PremiereCP = Canadian PremiereTIFF Docs
A Story Of Children And Film
Mark Cousins (UK) Nap
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Marcel Ophüls (France) Nap
At Berkeley
Frederick Wiseman (Us) Nap
Beyond The Edge
Leanne Pooley (New Zealand) Wp
Burt’s Buzz
Jody Shapiro (Canada) Wp
The Dark Matter Of Love
Sarah McCarthy (UK) Nap
The Dog
Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren (Us) Wp
Faith Connections
Pan Nalin (France/India) Wp
Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
Barry Avrich (Canada) Wp
Finding Vivian Maier
John Maloof and Charlie Siskel (Us) Wp
Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Alanis Obomsawin (Canada...
- 7/30/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Above: Le joli mai (1963).
Around about June every year, for several days, a large documentary festival spreads across a cluster of venues in the centre of Sheffield, engulfing the city's main arthouse, The Showroom, and several local theatres, odeons, libraries, and small pubs. The people of Sheffield were affable, generally. Street vendors set-up outside the screening rooms, so there'd regularly be smoke in the air. There was an outdoor screen on Howard Street—at the foot of a grassy hill and against the muraled wall of a pub we saw Ben Rivers' Two Years at Sea (2012) and Wim Wenders' Pina (2011)—and another in the underbelly of a grand, art deco library, where I bummed tickets to see Martha Shane and Lana Wilson's After Tiller (a producer for the film took pity, since I had not booked in advance).
So perhaps it's hardly surprising that the festival itself...
Around about June every year, for several days, a large documentary festival spreads across a cluster of venues in the centre of Sheffield, engulfing the city's main arthouse, The Showroom, and several local theatres, odeons, libraries, and small pubs. The people of Sheffield were affable, generally. Street vendors set-up outside the screening rooms, so there'd regularly be smoke in the air. There was an outdoor screen on Howard Street—at the foot of a grassy hill and against the muraled wall of a pub we saw Ben Rivers' Two Years at Sea (2012) and Wim Wenders' Pina (2011)—and another in the underbelly of a grand, art deco library, where I bummed tickets to see Martha Shane and Lana Wilson's After Tiller (a producer for the film took pity, since I had not booked in advance).
So perhaps it's hardly surprising that the festival itself...
- 7/9/2013
- by Christopher Small
- MUBI
A still from “Charulata”
Satyajit Ray’s Charulata (The Lonely Wife) is one among the twenty feature films to be presented at Cannes Classics, as part of the Official Selection.
Based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore about a lonely housewife, the film features Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee and Shailen Mukherjee. It won Satyajit Ray a Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin international film festival in 1965.
Cannes Classics was created in 2004 to present old films and masterpieces from cinematographic history that have been carefully restored. It is also a way to pay tribute to the essential work being down by copyrightholders, film libraries, production companies and national archives throughout the world.
This year’s programme of Cannes Classics is made up of twenty feature-length films and three documentaries.
Restored Prints
Borom Sarret (1963, 20’) by Ousmane Sembène
Charulata (Charluta: The Lonely Wife) (1964, 1:57) by Satyajit Ray
Cleopatra (1963, 4:03) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz...
Satyajit Ray’s Charulata (The Lonely Wife) is one among the twenty feature films to be presented at Cannes Classics, as part of the Official Selection.
Based on a story by Rabindranath Tagore about a lonely housewife, the film features Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee and Shailen Mukherjee. It won Satyajit Ray a Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin international film festival in 1965.
Cannes Classics was created in 2004 to present old films and masterpieces from cinematographic history that have been carefully restored. It is also a way to pay tribute to the essential work being down by copyrightholders, film libraries, production companies and national archives throughout the world.
This year’s programme of Cannes Classics is made up of twenty feature-length films and three documentaries.
Restored Prints
Borom Sarret (1963, 20’) by Ousmane Sembène
Charulata (Charluta: The Lonely Wife) (1964, 1:57) by Satyajit Ray
Cleopatra (1963, 4:03) by Joseph L. Mankiewicz...
- 4/30/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival lineup continues to grow, today with the announcement of the films playing in the Cannes Classics selection as well as the titles playing on the beach at night as part of the Cinema de la Plage selection. It was already announced Kim Novak would be in attendance to present the restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, but the restorations that will be screening don't end there. In addition to Vertigo a restored print of Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Cleopatra will screen along with restorations of Billy Wilder's Fedora, Yasujir? Ozu's An Autumn Afternoon, Hal Ashby's The Last Detail starring Jack Nicholson and a 3-D conversion of Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor. Additional notable names include films from Alain Resnais, Marco Ferreri, Chris Marker and Rene Clement. In addition to those titles a special presentation of Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete...
- 4/29/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Experimental French director acclaimed for his post-apocalyptic film La Jetée
The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form.
Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. They looked forward to what is called "the new documentary", but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Marker's interests lay in transitional societies – "life in the process of becoming history," as he put it. How do various cultures perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly intermingled modern world?
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve,...
The essay film, a form pitched between documentary and personal reflection, exploring the subjectivity of the cinematic perspective, has now become an accepted genre. Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, Jean-Luc Godard, Errol Morris and Michael Moore are among its main recent exponents, but Chris Marker, who has died aged 91, was credited with inventing the form.
Marker's creative use of sound, images and text in his poetic, political and philosophical documentaries made him one of the most inventive of film-makers. They looked forward to what is called "the new documentary", but also looked back to the literary essay in the tradition of Michel de Montaigne. Marker's interests lay in transitional societies – "life in the process of becoming history," as he put it. How do various cultures perceive and sustain themselves and each other in the increasingly intermingled modern world?
He was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve,...
- 7/30/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Chris Marker, the French filmmaker who is credited with inventing the film essay and whose short film "La jetée" inspired Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys," died today, one day after his 91st birthday. Marker's passing was confirmed by France's Culture Ministry, according to the Associated Press. Born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (he supposedly took his surname from a Magic Marker), was a novelist before he was a filmmaker; he wrote a novel, a book of criticism on playwright-novelist Jean Giradoux, poetry, short stories and film reviews for Cahiers du Cinema. His first film was the 1958 documentary "Letter from Siberia," followed by "Cuba Si!" in 1961 -- a film that was banned in France for two years because of its anti-American tone. In 1963 he directed another doc, "Le Joli Mai," comprised of interviews with Parisians and commentary by Yves Montand (Simone Signoret in the English-language...
- 7/30/2012
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Max Goldberg in the San Francisco Bay Guardian: "Looking at a map of Paris, the city's rings resemble those of the giant Sequoia cross-section in Vertigo (1958), the one Kim Novak points to saying, 'Somewhere in here I was born ... and here I died.' It's a touchstone scene for Chris Marker, one he recasts in both La Jetée (1962) and Sans Soleil (1983), though the Paris metaphor is prompted by his lesser known essay film, Le joli mai ('May the beautiful,' filmed with the venerable cinematographer Pierre Lhomme)." Poetry Meets Politics: The Essay — Chris Marker's Le joli mai: Tomorrow evening at 7 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Related: Acquarello's review from 2006.
- 3/31/2010
- MUBI
Maybe the French crime drama "A Prophet" is actually fulfilling some prophecy, having won the Grand Prix at last year's Cannes, two BAFTAs last weekend, and a most deserved Oscar nomination for best foreign language film. Co-written and directed by Paris-born auteur Jacques Audiard ("The Beat That My Heart Skipped," "Read My Lips"), this ambitious epic tracks the trial-by-fire experienced by Malik El Djebena (talented newcomer Tahar Rahim), an illiterate but clever 19-year-old Arab who, at the start of the film, has just been sentenced to six years in prison. Quickly seduced into carrying out seedy jobs for an old Corsican mobster (Niels Arestrup) who owns most of the guards, Malik learns the rewards of humility, sneakiness, shifting alliances and having a haunted conscience, ultimately growing in ways prison wasn't intended for. While Audiard and Rahim were at the Sundance Film Festival, I spoke with them via translator about their mutual fears,...
- 2/24/2010
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
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