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Nominally billed as a murder mystery, director Jean-Luc Godard’s lost 1966 comic book film has as much to do with film noir as hamburger does with a doorknob. This slight and charming cinematic episode, which due to financial reasons has rarely ever been seen in the forty years since its original release, is notable for [...]

The story of Scott Walker is, on its face, not too different from that of many pop idols of the last fifty years. A handsome man with a remarkable baritone voice, Walker, first as a member of the Walker Brothers, and then on his own, made a huge splash in the UK with a series [...]

When one stops to think of exactly how many films in the last sixty-odd years have been made about World War II, it boggles the mind. An encyclopedia that listed each of them, alphabetically, would run thousands of pages, and would still need to be updated every month. Today, we will open that book and [...]

As we approach yet another cinematic Summer of Our Discontent, wherein we will be inclined to listen wearily to grown men discuss tent poles, receipts, and whether or not Catalog Model Number Five makes for an effective Captain Kirk, there is no small relief in knowing that, occasionally, we are granted a respite from these [...]

REGULAR LOVERS (2005)
As a veteran of the barricades, and co-conspirator of the New Wave, director Philippe Garrel is better equipped than most filmmakers to document the Paris riots of 1968. By casting his son, rising French star Louis (who also starred in Bertolucci’s more romanticized Paris ’68 film The Dreamers), Garrel personalizes his story in [...]

12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST (2006)
Written and directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Romania, of late, has proven to be fertile ground for young filmmakers with a story to tell. Repressed as a citizenry for so long by the dictator Ceausescu, when the bonds of communism were broken it left many a Romanian adrift, unsure of what to do [...]