David’s Quick Take for the tl;dr Media Consumer:
Three Resurrected Drunkards comes across as what Nagisa Oshima might have considered a breather in the midst of his insanely prolific run of the late 1960s. Cobbled together between his more ambitious projects Death by Hanging and Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, this is inarguably a minor work that probably has a bit more prominence than it otherwise deserves due to its inclusion in Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, where it holds the virtue of injecting a bit more levity into what is an otherwise thematically hefty set.
Not that Three Resurrected Drunkards should be regarded as an altogether lightweight romp. The film follows a trio of three young men, in real life members of a Japanese pop group called The Folk Crusaders, who become victims of mistaken identity when their matching Beatle-esque outfits (circa Shea Stadium ’65) are...
Three Resurrected Drunkards comes across as what Nagisa Oshima might have considered a breather in the midst of his insanely prolific run of the late 1960s. Cobbled together between his more ambitious projects Death by Hanging and Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, this is inarguably a minor work that probably has a bit more prominence than it otherwise deserves due to its inclusion in Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties, where it holds the virtue of injecting a bit more levity into what is an otherwise thematically hefty set.
Not that Three Resurrected Drunkards should be regarded as an altogether lightweight romp. The film follows a trio of three young men, in real life members of a Japanese pop group called The Folk Crusaders, who become victims of mistaken identity when their matching Beatle-esque outfits (circa Shea Stadium ’65) are...
- 4/13/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
This podcast focuses on Criterion’s Eclipse Series of DVDs. Hosts David Blakeslee and Trevor Berrett give an overview of each box and offer their perspectives on the unique treasures they find inside. In this episode, David and Trevor are joined by Aaron West to conclude their conversation about Eclipse Series 21: Oshima’s Outlaw Sixties. They discuss Sing a Song of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide and Three Resurrected Drunkards, the final three films in the set.
About the films:
Often called the Godard of the East, Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century, and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world for decades. Following his rise to prominence at Shochiku, Oshima struck out to form his own production company, Sozo-sha, in the early sixties. That move ushered in the prolific period of his career that gave birth to the five films collected here.
About the films:
Often called the Godard of the East, Japanese director Nagisa Oshima was one of the most provocative film artists of the twentieth century, and his works challenged and shocked the cinematic world for decades. Following his rise to prominence at Shochiku, Oshima struck out to form his own production company, Sozo-sha, in the early sixties. That move ushered in the prolific period of his career that gave birth to the five films collected here.
- 3/8/2016
- by David Blakeslee
- CriterionCast
The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. At this point I think it's pretty much known that we tend to have long gaps in between episodes of The Movie Club Podcast, but this time around it was easily our longest break yet... 10 months to be exact. Fortunately, the crew finally managed to re-assemble to discuss a pair of crime flicks: Walter Hill's The Driver and John Frankenheimer's 52 Pick-Up. What's more, it was also our first ever live recording on Google Hangouts, complete with video feed! Alas, Jay and I were not able to attend, but a strong contingency of Row Three contributors showed up in full force including Kurt Halfyard, Andrew James, Bob Turnbull and Jandy Hardesty, along with Jim Laczkowski from The Director's Club Podcast.
- 12/13/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
The Sarasota Film Festival, wrapping today, has announced this year's round of awards and SarasotaPatch has the full list. We especially want to congratulate Dan Sallitt, whose The Unspeakable Act has won Best Film in the Independent Visions competition. As Dan tells the Ditmas Park Corner, the film centers on a girl who "has her own vision, which is totally at odds with society's vision of what she's supposed to do with her romantic and sexual urges." And, as we noted last month, The Unspeakable Act will screen in June at New York's BAMcinemaFest.
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
The Nashville Film Festival is on through Thursday and Sam Smith's designed not only the poster but also the cover of the current Nashville Scene, wherein you'll find a robust collection of capsule reviews.
Nadav Lapid's Policeman won Best Film and Best Director at the Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente yesterday. Diego...
- 4/22/2012
- MUBI
The Berlinale's announced today that its 62nd edition will open on February 9 with the world premiere of Benoît Jacquot's Les Adieux à la reine (Farewell, My Queen). "All the debauchery, betrayal, power and tragedy of Marie Antoinette's court in its last days witnessed by one of her readers," promises distributor Elle Driver, where you'll find a full synopsis and a few words from Jacquot. His film, set in Versailles at the dawn of the French Revolution, features Diane Kruger as the Queen and Léa Seydoux as one of her ladies-in-waiting and is based on Chantal Thomas's award-winning novel. France Télévisions has a two-minute report from the set.
In other news. Ioncinema has begun counting down its "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012," starting with #100: Léos Carax's Holly Motors.
BAFTA will award its annual Fellowship to Martin Scorsese on February 12.
"Film actress Salma Hayek has been awarded one of...
In other news. Ioncinema has begun counting down its "Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012," starting with #100: Léos Carax's Holly Motors.
BAFTA will award its annual Fellowship to Martin Scorsese on February 12.
"Film actress Salma Hayek has been awarded one of...
- 1/4/2012
- MUBI
An avid podcast listener (like me) could hardly stumble across better news today than this fresh item from the Zellner Bros: "Mike Plante has great taste and a vast knowledge of film. His venture Cinemad has been many wonderful things; a zine, a blog, a DVD almanac, a distributor and podcast. His latest podcast installment interviews the Zb's, hopefully we did it justice. A lot of important issues were covered from Sasquatches to Salo to Chuck Berry."
What's more, this is Cinemad's sixth podcast and, as it happens, for nearly every one of them, there's a relevant upcoming event worth noting. David and Nathan Zellner's new feature, Kid-Thing, for example, will be making its premiere at Sundance in a few weeks. As for the other five:
Nina Menkes. We've got a cinema devoted to her films even now; its virtual doors are open through July.
Azazel Jacobs. His touching...
What's more, this is Cinemad's sixth podcast and, as it happens, for nearly every one of them, there's a relevant upcoming event worth noting. David and Nathan Zellner's new feature, Kid-Thing, for example, will be making its premiere at Sundance in a few weeks. As for the other five:
Nina Menkes. We've got a cinema devoted to her films even now; its virtual doors are open through July.
Azazel Jacobs. His touching...
- 1/2/2012
- MUBI
Appropriately for the last day of the year, we've got some major additions to the Awards and Lists 2011 Index, beginning with "Moments of 2011." Moving Image Source has asked around 50 "regular contributors and colleagues, as well as a few writers and artists, to select their moving image moment or event of 2011 — anything from an entire movie or TV series to an individual scene or shot, from a retrospective or exhibition to a news story or viral video." Quite a varied roster of filmmakers, critics, programmers, museum directors, editors and so on reflect on an even wider range of moving images, from animated gifs to news footage to exhibitions and, of course, films projected in darkened theaters. Parts 1 and 2.
Editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert: "We can't remember a year since we kicked off Reverse Shot back in 2002 that delivered so many contenders for our final ten spots (and, we should mention,...
Editors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert: "We can't remember a year since we kicked off Reverse Shot back in 2002 that delivered so many contenders for our final ten spots (and, we should mention,...
- 1/1/2012
- MUBI
Urbanized premiered in Toronto and now opens for a five-day run at the IFC Center in New York before rolling on to further cities in the coming weeks, but this past weekend saw it "playing to a packed house at the London School of Economics," and Justin McGuirk was there for the Guardian. "It is directed by Gary Hustwit, who made the cult hit Helvetica in 2007 (an unlikely film about a Swiss typeface) before taking on the much broader topic of industrial design in 2009's Objectified. With Urbanized, he zooms out even further to complete his trilogy, a cinematic story about design moving from the micro to the macro. With each leap in scale, Hustwit risks pointing his camera at a topic so big he ends up saying nothing at all. Yet Urbanized is a brave and timely movie that manages to strike almost exactly the right tone. For a...
- 10/28/2011
- MUBI
Following rounds 1 and 2, this one will take us right on through the countdown to Halloween and will surely be the most actively updated of the bunch. Best to begin, then, by grounding it in a classic, so we turn to David Kalat: "Frankenstein isn't a science fiction story about an arrogant scientist who intrudes on God's domain, it's a metaphor about our relationship to God." That's his argument, and I'll let him explain, but I want to pull back to a couple of earlier sentences in his piece. Mary Shelley's novel, "and the 1910 film version, treated the 'science' of Frankenstein as just so much folderol, a MacGuffin to introduce the artificial man into the story. Whale was so good at providing a reasonably convincing visualization of reviving the dead — no, more than that, a stunningly satisfying visualization of reviving the dead — it focused popular attention on that part of...
- 10/27/2011
- MUBI
Isaki Lacuesta's The Double Steps has won the Golden Shell for Best Film at this year's San Sebastián Film Festival. Ronald Bergan will be pleased. In his dispatch from the festival to the House Next Door, he calls it "the best film in the main competition. It was certainly the most original and a refreshing change from the well-worn linear narrative devices of the majority of films. After 2002's Cravan vs. Cravan, his profile of Arthur Cravan, the Swiss-born nephew of Oscar Wilde who achieved fame as both a Dadaist poet and boxer, Lacuesta has now turned to Francois Augièras, the eccentric French writer, painter and explorer, and sometime lover of André Gide. The film follows two parallel lines, one about a group of men trying to locate a mythical bunker buried in the North African desert containing paintings by Augièras, and the other about the artist himself, here played by a black African,...
- 9/27/2011
- MUBI
"A largely non-competitive festival, Toronto gives out very few awards," notes Twitch editor Todd Brown, "the most prominent of which are the People's Choice picks, three awards given based on audience ratings of the films with one each awarded to the Midnight Madness section, the Real to Reel documentary section and the overall festival at large." And as an executive producer on The Raid, his congratulations to the film's team for winning the People's Choice Award for Midnight Madness are particularly jubilant. The runners-up are Adam Wingard's You're Next and Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America, and roundups on both are on the way, but first:
"Audiences will be scrambling to find enough compound adjectives to describe Gareth Huw Evans hard-driving, butt-kicking, pulse-pounding, bone-crunching, skull-smashing, blood-curdling martial arts siege movie, The Raid," writes David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter. "Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions grabbed Us rights prior to Toronto...
"Audiences will be scrambling to find enough compound adjectives to describe Gareth Huw Evans hard-driving, butt-kicking, pulse-pounding, bone-crunching, skull-smashing, blood-curdling martial arts siege movie, The Raid," writes David Rooney in the Hollywood Reporter. "Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions grabbed Us rights prior to Toronto...
- 9/18/2011
- MUBI
Let's start this one with Bob Turnbull: "Fearless. Absolutely fearless filmmaking. Sion Sono takes no quarter, doesn't deal with compromises and doesn't hold anything back. He goes by feeling, sets no boundaries and won't second guess himself. His latest film Cold Fish (along with his previous 4-hour epic Love Exposure) feels like an instinctive creation — there's an energy to it that feels like he edited it live in one fell swoop. It picks you up and whips you through the entirety of its 144-minute ride. Even during some of the longer takes and slower sections in this telling of the true story of Japan's most notorious murderer, you can be left breathless."...
- 9/23/2010
- MUBI
One of the most content-rich film publications online or off has juiced up its form with Issue 52: Senses of Cinema now sports a bright new design, RSS, tags, the works. Editors Rolando Caputo and Scott Murray introduce all the nifty features and then quickly add that "for all the technical distractions in producing this issue, all along we have very much kept at the forefront of our minds our responsibility to present an issue that is as rich and varied in reading material as any in our archives." Beginning with Maša Peče's interview with Terry Gilliam, "as frank and candid as any on record," they walk us through the highlights.
October's here, meaning the Countdown to Halloween has begun. A project going by that very name has linked literally dozens of participants into a community of bloggers writing about scary monsters and super creeps. Note, too, that Not Coming...
October's here, meaning the Countdown to Halloween has begun. A project going by that very name has linked literally dozens of participants into a community of bloggers writing about scary monsters and super creeps. Note, too, that Not Coming...
- 10/3/2009
- MUBI
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