Movie Poster of the Week: Now at The Auteurs

After a kind invitation from my good friend D-Kaz, Movie Poster of the Week will now be appearing weekly (I hope!) on the Auteurs Notebook. Check out my debut post. I will continue to post other ramblings and beautiful things here.

Movie poster of the week: L’Enfant Sauvage

It had been years since I last saw this and seeing it again in a new print at Film Forum only confirmed my sneaking suspicion that Truffaut’s L’Enfant Sauvage is almost a perfect film. I’m not even sure exactly what I mean by that but I will try to address it later today. I just wanted to get something posted since it’s been two weeks since my last confession…

Sarah Plainview

Steve Coll in The New Yorker on the video of Sarah Palin at the Wasilla Assembly of God Pentecostal church:

“The YouTube version of the Governor’s idiosyncratic narrative of faith, ambition, motherhood, and frontier life has a slightly different ring from the received version, which débuted at the Republican Convention last month; the video does not evoke “Northern Exposure” so much as it does “There Will Be Blood.” There are about fifty days left until a national election of unusual consequence; perhaps there is still time for journalists to fully vet what McCain did not.”

New stuff

After letting this site lie dormant for much of the summer I’ve finally added some new films and pithy remarks to the screening log, if anyone cares. Scroll down to the bottom of that page for the old stuff. I still need to drop some science about Desplechin’s Christmas Tale, Terence Davies’ Of Time and the City and Bergman’s The Touch. Watch this space.

Happy Birthday Prince

Prince turns 50 today! I feel like re-watching the greatest concert movie of all time this morning.

Rotterdammerung

Apologies to my regular readers (all five or six of you) for the lack of posts in January. I promise to do better when I return from my annual week at the Rotterdam Film Festival, re-energized, I hope, by some halfway decent movies. If ever there was a festival devoted to the principle of the wind in the trees, it’s Rotterdam.

If anyone’s looking for me, this is where I’ll be…