8/4/71: Doc Of interest 70s curio, D/P: Frank Perry/W: Pete Hamill w/Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin More: Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/doc-... Ariel Schudson/ @newbeverly.bsky.social: thenewbev.com/blog/2017/03... @positivelytonsils.bsky.social: www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/review-f...

Review: Frank Perry’s Doc Gets KL Studio Classics Blu-ray Edition - Slant Magazine

Perry’s cynical western receives an impressive transfer and an illuminating commentary by Alex Cox.

slantmagazine.com

Despite its title, Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA is less about sex and death than sex and cinema. In theaters Friday. tinyurl.com/u77mehm3

Read our chat with Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder about TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA, balancing the intellectual and the physical, Einbinder’s approach to her character, and more.

Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder on 'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma'

Jane Schoenbrun and Hannah Einbinder discuss balancing the intellectual and the physical across the film.

slantmagazine.com

Almost a year later, we've been able to make up over half of this loss — thanks *entirely* to new subscriptions 🙏— but we still need some help to make up the rest. All it takes to support BWDR is a $29 annual subscription, and in exchange you get full access to everything we've published since 2013!

Bright Wall/Dark Room@brightwalldarkroom.com · 12mo ago

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

I admire our government's new commitment to honesty.

Ava Gardner in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman.

Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

"My Neighbor Is a Cannibal Who Screams Throughout the Night," sounds like the English title of a forgotten Fulci movie from 1979.

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good

Criterion’s box set of Mike Mills’s last three films comes with sparkling new transfers and a wonderful assortment of extras full of insights into the director’s working methods. tinyurl.com/4cd4b6u6

Neil Jordan’s landmark film THE CRYING GAME, now available on Criterion 4K UHD Blu-ray, is a strikingly humane and insightful examination of two troubled souls navigating the physical, social, and racial barriers that stand between them. tinyurl.com/y552xkuy

The Odyssey (2026, dir. Chris Nolan)

Martin Ritt’s HUD, now available on the Criterion Collection, is a mournful lament for a passing of a way of life and a meditation on the possible ways forward. tinyurl.com/ycdrudyc

The greatest screen actor in history was born Ruby Stevens, and into abject poverty in Brooklyn, 120 years ago today.

The Evidence of the Film (1913) offers a behind-the-scenes look at how movies were edited

Richard Fleischer’s SOYLENT GREEN, available on July 28 on 4K UHD Blu-ray from Arrow Video, remains a cheesily effective snapshot of 1970s paranoia. tinyurl.com/5f88cfc8

It's Lino's birthday! In his first film, TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRISBI (1954) Lino Ventura with his great pal Jean Gabin.

"We're seeing so much amazing work coming from the Arab region because the material is rich and the culture is rich." I spoke with ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema programmer Lina Matta about this year’s edition, which begins tomorrow at BAM Brooklyn and next week at the Jacob Burns Film Center.

Interview: ANA Contemporary Arab Cinema programmer Lina Matta

"We're seeing so much amazing work coming from the Arab region because the material is rich and the culture is rich."

oldfilmsflicker.substack.com

David Lynch and Harry Dean Stanton on the set of Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)

John Flynn’s 1973 adaptation of Donald E. Westlake’s 1963 Parker novel THE OUTFIT, starring Robert Duvall, is brutal and ruthlessly efficient. It’s the epitome of hard-boiled. Available on Blu-ray from Arrow Video on July 28. tinyurl.com/ybv5y7m8

Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft.

This film is wild.

Conor O'Donnell@codonnell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Nw:

Last Year At Marienbad/This Month At The State Fair

This is unreal. What a year for Radiance!

Radiance Films@filmsradiance.bsky.social · 4w ago

UK/US: Exploring the magical and surreal lurking in the everyday is our box set FANTASTIQUE: THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF FRENCH CINEMA Ft. six films exploring the Fantastique by Charles Vanel, Marcel L’Herbier, Edmond T. Gréville, Jean Kerchbron, Juan Luis Buñuel and Raúl Ruiz

This is unreal. What a year for Radiance!

Radiance Films@filmsradiance.bsky.social · 4w ago

UK/US: Exploring the magical and surreal lurking in the everyday is our box set FANTASTIQUE: THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF FRENCH CINEMA Ft. six films exploring the Fantastique by Charles Vanel, Marcel L’Herbier, Edmond T. Gréville, Jean Kerchbron, Juan Luis Buñuel and Raúl Ruiz

Cinema.

RIP Tony Rayns, one of the few English-language critics who genuinely knew what they were talking about (most of the time) when it came to East Asian cinema, especially Hong Kong's.