Breathing Through Cinema – The Films of Chantal Akerman @HFA
Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, recently and lamentably lost to us — she committed suicide in late 2015 at the age of 65,…
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Matthew Martens
Le Samouraï (1967) DIR. JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE
Inspired by Frank Tuttle’s This Gun For Hire, a 1942 noir starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, from which it cribs the…
REVIEW: Good Time (2017) dir. Ben & Josh Safdie
As sleek as they’re deceptively slack, the last couple of films by Queens natives (and brothers) Ben and Josh Safdie are, in…
BIG 3 FILM: Feed Your Head
FEED YOUR HEAD: FILMS FROM 1967 Fri 8/11 – Sat 9/2 @MFA With the notable, if somewhat dubious, exception of THE TRIP,…
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (2016) dir. Tyler Hubby
There is — and I hope no one minds my saying so — an obvious, if not particularly damning, irony in the…
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) DIR. SERGIO LEONE
Opening with a sequence as stately and time-stopping as any in cinema — and featuring, incidentally, what may be the most notable…
NINOTCHKA (1939) DIR. ERNST LUBITSCH
“Now do not misunderstand me. I do not hold your frivolity against you. As basic material you may not be bad. But…
REVIEW: The Death of Louis XIV (2016) dir. Albert Serra
The Emperor’s new void. If you gaze long enough into an abyss — to lightly bastardize Nietzsche’s icy aphorism — the abyss…
Behemoth (2015) dir. Zhao Liang
I guess it could be considered a kind of a deal with the devil. If hell is underground, but so is all…
REVIEW: Personal Shopper (2016) dir. Olivier Assayas
“All that is solid melts into air” — still Marx’s greatest hit. With apologies to the biographical fallacy, I think it’s safe…
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Où est Klaus Barbie? So asked notorious crypto-couldbe-fascist neo-folk band Death in June back in 1985, a few years before the release…
BUFF19 REVIEW: A Life in Waves (2017) dir. Brett Whitcomb
(Suzanne Ciani, Brett Whitcomb (director) and Bradford Thomason (writer) will all attend today’s screening at the HFA for a Q&A.) I have…
