We at Mubi think that celebrating the films of 2011 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2011. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection of some of our favorite retrospective viewings from 2011.
This year I ordered my favorite new experiences with old movies by the date when I saw them, rather than by the year when they were made. (The diary format reveals a large midyear viewing gap due to my own film shoot.) I chose rather arbitrarily, leaning toward works I haven't already called attention to; and I let myself run the list up to six films instead of five.
February 8, in the French Institute/Alliance Française's Cinéma des femmes series: La dérive (Paula Delsol, 1964)
It seems that contemporary critics found Delsol's debut feature less than technically competent, but that opinion is baffling today: the film meanders artfully,...
This year I ordered my favorite new experiences with old movies by the date when I saw them, rather than by the year when they were made. (The diary format reveals a large midyear viewing gap due to my own film shoot.) I chose rather arbitrarily, leaning toward works I haven't already called attention to; and I let myself run the list up to six films instead of five.
February 8, in the French Institute/Alliance Française's Cinéma des femmes series: La dérive (Paula Delsol, 1964)
It seems that contemporary critics found Delsol's debut feature less than technically competent, but that opinion is baffling today: the film meanders artfully,...
- 1/24/2012
- MUBI
Somehow the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center seems like the last place you'd expect to see the Rutger Hauer thriller "Hobo With a Shotgun" blasting through, but it's a fitting way to introduce this year's Film Comment Selects series, which begins tonight in New York with both guns a blazin' and runs through March 4th.
As Nick Pinkerton noted in the Village Voice this week, there's "a downright dedication to evil" with this year's selections, which include the enjoyably excruciating Korean revenge thriller "I Saw the Devil" and the soon-to-play-sxsw return of "Saw" director James Wan's "Insidious." And yet there's so much goodwill on display since many of the films gracing the Film Society of Lincoln Center's screens are without American distribution and may prove to be hard to see in the future.
One of these gems that as of yet won't be appearing Stateside anytime soon is Thomas Vinterberg's "Submarino,...
As Nick Pinkerton noted in the Village Voice this week, there's "a downright dedication to evil" with this year's selections, which include the enjoyably excruciating Korean revenge thriller "I Saw the Devil" and the soon-to-play-sxsw return of "Saw" director James Wan's "Insidious." And yet there's so much goodwill on display since many of the films gracing the Film Society of Lincoln Center's screens are without American distribution and may prove to be hard to see in the future.
One of these gems that as of yet won't be appearing Stateside anytime soon is Thomas Vinterberg's "Submarino,...
- 2/19/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
The 11th edition of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Film Comment Selects series will screen 16 films currently without U.S. distribution. The annual showcase of rare and hard-to-find films selected by Film Comment editors will open with screenings of Jia Zhangke's "I Wish I Knew" and Islid Le Besco's "Bas-fonds," and closes with John Landis' "Burke and Hare" and James Wan's "Insidious." The main program will be made up ...
- 1/31/2011
- Indiewire
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