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Mesa's number one Feuilladeball / filmmaker, producer, designer, editor / works with The Film Desk and Radiance / more to be revealed

Phoenix, AZ, US
Joined July 2008
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craig keller
4 years
A bump to watch my latest film for free on VImeo HD, I THROW TWO SHADOWS: FAIT ACCOMPLI 2. Perfect for the holidays.
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6 years
One of the movie events of the year — @Zak_Bagans on a video Skype interview with Kenneth Anger on tonight’s new #GhostAdventures
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"There is a fantastic thing that Godard used to say: In the old days, they made silent films and you understood everything, without words. You understood more than the story, you understood how people suffer and why." –Pedro Costa, 2023
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Haunted by this video. Bittersweet. Because this is the perfect glimpse/art-output of the 1990s. It was cool just to make cool shit. And this little 8mm thing is like 40,000 times cooler than anything now. And somehow had way more deep cultural influence than a million YT views.
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Guided By Voices I Am A Scientist Bee Thousand (1994) Matador Records
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Not hyperbolic. He’s the greatest living filmmaker.
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Fucking hyperbolic statement, I know, but this two shots made me realize that Pedro Costa is one of best and most important filmmakers of the 21st century.
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9 months
“I like Eastwood’s films — even the one with the stupid monkey.” –Jacques Rivette, 1996
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“Every Which Way But Loose” was released on this date in 1978.
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1 year
If you torrent stuff, you’re basically crossing a picket line. If you want to keep doing it, shut the fuck up about it on Twitter. You’re basically saying “fuck you” to my and many’s living. I don’t mind when you need to take screengrabs, but other than that fuck you back.
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2 years
FUNNY WARS by JLG was apparently completed and runs 20 minutes and will be at Cannes. Aragno and Grivas are working to complete SCÉNARIO according to his prehumous instructions.
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2 years
This week’s column breaks news about Godard’s final movie going to #Cannes and unearths details about The Weeknd’s ambitions as an auteur, including an attempted remake of ICHI THE KILLER with Paul Schrader
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craig keller
1 month
João César Monteiro Blu-ray Complete Films Box Set Spectrum French/English Subtitles 12 December 2024
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9 months
It can be revealed — @FilmsRadiance will be releasing the new restoration of Jacques Rivette’s epic 4-1/2 hour L’AMOUR FOU on Blu-ray. I put together the booklet.
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Radiance Films
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Coming with extensive new extras including a feature length doc, video essay by @AdrianMartin25 and @laughmotel , interview with Caroline Champetier, extensive booklet by @evillights and new artwork. Coming to cinemas soon and on disc
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craig keller
2 years
Godard committed assisted suicide yesterday. He wasn’t ill; he had just had it. Libération reports.
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craig keller
1 year
I've translated into English the Cahiers editor-in-chief Marcos Uzal's first impressions of Jean-Luc Godard's TRAILER OF THE FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST "PHONY WARS," from the Cahiers website:
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craig keller
4 months
All hail Rivette and CÉLINE ET JULIE VONT EN BATEAU, fifty years old as of today. A life-changing work for me.
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Joyous and strangely moving. The film that allowed me, as a fledgling cinephile, to get into more experimental French cinema.
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1 year
My 2-hour film interview with Pedro Costa from the early 2010s. Someone liked it today and given Pedro's recent interview thought it would be a good time to repost:
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craig keller
4 years
Greatest thing on Friday was Drew Barrymore having to acknowledge Errol Flynn stole John Barrymore’s corpse for one last party (cc: @KarinaLongworth ) and Drew declaring, “Defile my corpse too.” I find this very moving, I love Hollywood unabashedly
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"But mainly, [Fabrice Aragno] says, he is helping to establish the Jean-Luc Godard Foundation, renovating an old factory in the director’s home town of Rolle. This will serve as an exhibition space and archive, but principally it will provide a seedbed for young artists."
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craig keller
3 months
Here's something: tonight late on TCM, they're screening Pedro Costa's OSSOS followed by COLOSSAL YOUTH.
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craig keller
1 year
Ever see a shot from the Dylan sequence in Dennis Hopper’s BACKTRACK?
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1 year
New Harmony Korine movie coming later this year, exploring the aesthetics of gaming.
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craig keller
8 years
. @60Minutes @CBSNews Will you cover the angle on Cernovich where he publicly smeared @VicBergerIV with fake accusations of pedo-ring'ing?...
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1 year
Today is the world premiere at Cannes of Jean-Luc Godard’s first of two posthumous films — TRAILER OF THE FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST “PHONY WARS.” In time we will see the completed version of his second, SCÉNARIO. It is a solace. Thank you to Fabrice Aragno, Jean-Paul Battaggia,
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craig keller
10 months
RIP Jane Wodening Brakhage
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craig keller
8 months
Just a note that CS published some startling texts in its time. It ran, for example, across two successive issues, B. Kite’s 15,000 word or so consideration on Jacques Rivette, a high point in English-language film writing.
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Rivette’s top films of 1968 (reprinted from TEXTES CRITIQUES, taken from the Feb ‘69 issue of Cahiers no. 209) —
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craig keller
2 years
I'm sorry but there is absolutely no racism in John Ford. I have to assert that that's the case. It's like saying there's racism in Faulkner. Ford was among the most progressive directors of the bygone era.
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craig keller
5 months
The first images from Godard’s final film, SCÉNARIOS, have been released (alongside images from Aragno’s EXPOSÉ… film documenting JLG’s final time).
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craig keller
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Post-SCÉNARIOS by Godard, in its entirety I believe, we have words from Fabrice Aragno and Mitra Farahani.
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Unless I missed it (very possible) the film isn’t actually named in the piece..? It’s Godard’s GRANDEUR ET DÉCADENCE D’UN PETIT COMMERCE DE CINÉMA from 1986
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One of Jean-Luc Godard's rarest masterpieces, starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, will have its first screening since 2017 at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research this month. Details and tickets:
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1 year
@Nick_Newman Same here. Every now and then I'll indulge in a regular Coke, and it blows the pants off of Diet Coke. Though I don't mind Coke Zero. Of course, the king is the Mexican Coke.
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Thread, with the English-tranlsated gist of Fabrice Aragno's remarks on Godard's DRÔLES DE GUERRES / PHONY WARS. JLG wanted to adapt the film from Charles Plisnier's 1937 novel FAUX PASSEPORTS / FAKE PASSPORTS broken into several sections with a different character in each...
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craig keller
3 years
Name the first film you saw by these 5 directors: Pedro Costa Kenji Mizoguchi Lucrecia Martel Jean-Luc Godard Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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craig keller
3 years
RIP Monte Hellman — one of the kindest and most generous of men, and an absolutely brilliant film artist. He seemed eternally youthful.
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craig keller
3 years
Release every Johnnie To film on Blu-ray with English subtitles and real essays.
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craig keller
3 years
Jean-Luc Godard's latest book LE GRAND TABLEAU (NOIR) went to print today, in the midst of his making his two new films SCÉNARIO and FUNNY WARS.
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craig keller
2 years
The Cinemasparagus Poll of 2022 of Greatest Films Ever Made, an alternative to the Sight & Sound poll, is now live at Cinemasparagus —
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craig keller
1 year
I translated on my blog the preview of Godard's TRAILER FOR THE FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST "PHONY WARS" published in the May issue of Cahiers, with texts by Fabrice Aragno and Nicole Brenez:
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craig keller
9 months
Sitting with it overnight, BLACKHAT (Mann cut) is up there among his best films. Totally excellent, something unique from America, something à la NEW ROSE HOTEL.
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craig keller
4 years
Aragno: Godard watches French TCM all the time “and films he DESTROYED, just DESTROYED in the Cahiers, now sometimes he says Well that’s not so bad...”
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craig keller
1 year
Incredible and essential new interview from Mubi Notebook today by Christopher Small with Pedro Costa. "When I'm out of this hellhole..." [Cannes] — Thanks to @theMummyMa for bringing this to my attention.
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craig keller
2 years
If you want the primary critical text on Ford, then you read JOHN FORD: THE MAN AND HIS FILMS by Tag Gallagher. People are complex, which the current era has no time for even considering. And again, I will only say: FAULKNER. FAULKNER. FAULKNER.
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1 year
Godard. Éloge de l’image. Aragno. June 2023.
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9 months
"Every thought should contain the ruins of a smile." –Jean-Luc Godard, ÉLOGE DE L'AMOUR, 2001
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craig keller
2 years
Who’s a director you can’t stand but you nod at other people’s enthusiasm because good for them and also you don’t want to have any conversation about it. I’ll start it off: Hal Ashby.
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We applaud her courage
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Kevin Costner's first wife Cindy Silva shops for groceries 30 years after their marriage ended
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Ozu is as great as Shakespeare. Not with the language (Shakespeare remains unparalleled on all Earth for that), but with the wisdom and complexity of human emotions and psychology.
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JLG once said in the last ten years or so that he would make films till his dying breath, if it involved pencils and markers and a little camera. I'm incredibly moved by this beautiful 30-second preview.
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craig keller
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In time it has taken its rightful place in my Top now-4!!! films ever made, for me. Its next to THE RULES OF THE GAME, OUT 1, and HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA.
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In Vanda’s Room (Pedro Costa, 2000)
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1 year
I know more film/media enthusiasts who’ve seen every new streaming series and never once seen a film by Mizoguchi or Lang
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via Gabe Klinger via the Cannes site: Cannes Classics will present a screening called "L'ultime film de Jean-Luc Godard". And that will be: his TRUE final-final film, SCÉNARIOS, which is near 19 minutes and filmed/completed the day before he went to die. But then a SECOND film...
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craig keller
5 months
Out now on region B — Rivette’s L’AMOUR FOU. Contains fine fine work from @laughmotel and @AdrianMartin25 , and Jessica Felrice, et al. I produced the booklet and wrote this piece, included:
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craig keller
7 months
Rest in peace David Bordwell - his Eisenstein which I read in college helped me understand and formulate ideas on mise-en-scène
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craig keller
11 months
Very proud of this release which was my first co-production with @TheFilmDesk for the new restoration on Blu of Alain Resnais's LA GUERRE EST FINIE [THE WAR IS OVER], an undershown crucial piece of the master's cinema. Don't sleep on this!
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craig keller
1 year
Published this year - Ishaghpour writes a several-page essay on each feature from BREATHLESS to GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE. 400 pages.
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craig keller
10 months
Maybe in my top 3 Cronenbergs. Masterpiece probably.
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craig keller
1 year
If you can't read the Spanish on that last RT, it's that Harmony Korine has also made the new film with thermodynamic cameras from NASA, according to his neighbor who also has a part in the film.
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craig keller
9 months
A contender for the greatest silent film ever made (both parts).
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Fritz Lang Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
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craig keller
9 years
I've translated Jean-Luc Godard's homage to Jacques Rivette that was just shared by the Cinémathèque Française:
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craig keller
3 years
The greatest living Japanese filmmaker is Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
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craig keller
5 years
Unbelievable new issue of Cahiers du Cinéma. The long interview with Godard is accompanied by recent photos he's taken on his iPhone, and has manipulated. The working title of his next film (with images from the scenario) is SCÉNARIO.
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craig keller
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Just watched CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH for I think the 5th time. An angel hurtled through the light, the obscurity. A more perfect unison was there never till the Straubs made this film.
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The post-screening of SCÉNARIOS etc saw Aragno and Mitrahani take the stage. No-one cares. The most important film in years, the final gesture of the greatest. Anyway I'm watching it on FB so there's no way to reasonably share, but it might be on YT now. Enjoy the piss movies.
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craig keller
1 year
Rest in peace, Jacques Rozier. You didn't have enough respect in this life.
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I love the Criterion 24/7 feature on the Channel. It’s basically TCM but better. I’ve been keeping it on in the background. Playing currently: LOST HIGHWAY
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craig keller
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After this 4K viewing I’m inclined to say that McCABE & MRS. MILLER is one of the finest films. I think it’s Altman’s first Great Film.
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1 year
No Raúl Ruiz in The Criterion Collection
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1 year
I have friends who do it and whose living rooms look like the 29th circle of hell. I don’t care whether it’s an “otherwise unavailable” film or not. Make the money to buy it on disc or canvas to make it come back into a rights-horizon.
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craig keller
3 years
GIANT NEWS (cc: @NickPinkerton )
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"Boris Eustache has finally agreed to a deal with Les Fims du Losange for the restoration and theatrical/dvd release of Eustache full work"
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Janus Films has picked up Rivette’s L’AMOUR FOU, so expect an inevitable (though when??) Criterion release for this, one of the greatest of films.
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An #NYFF6 Main Slate selection, L’AMOUR FOU is one of the most remarkable of Jacques Rivette’s many explorations of the intersection of life and art. Rivette’s 1969 classic opens in a new 4K restoration this Friday! 🎟️:
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Woke up in a very good mood today, seeing Harmony’s movie has rankled Bilge Ebiri’s middlebrow ass. It can generally be counted on that a “zero” from Ebiri translates to a “10” from me.
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craig keller
3 years
In English, Pedro Costa, in talk with @AntoineThirion2 : “Between HORSE MONEY and this latest film, Vitalina started working at a Zara shop, and there she learned it all. Three months at Zara, I think, is a course in Marxism-Leninism.”
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craig keller
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Linklater’s one of the best American filmmakers. I don’t know why he made this movie. I don’t want another breezy Run-through of the ‘60s and watered down re-representations of the stances at play. Also, “NOUVELLE VAGUE” is already a title used for one of the greatest films.
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Is the guy with the film slate the Rivette? For some reason I’m mainly curious about the Rivette in this film that I can only imagine will be terrible
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I’ve never understood the always failed compulsion to make spectacle, or entertainment, out of atrocity. The atom bomb, the Holocaust, are not cruise-rides. If they’re to be addressed, the filmmaker must THINK. Like Lanzmann, Resnais, Kubrick, Godard…
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craig keller
2 years
I once told Tag I hadn’t seen WAR AND PEACE yet bc I was waiting to read the Tolstoy and he responded “You should see the Vidor first and wait to read the Tolstoy.”
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3 years
My translaton of Yannick Haenel's text, "The Radiant Cheek," on Pedro Costa's VITALINA VARELA, is now up @NotebookMUBI
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1 year
All I ask of cinema is cinema itself. The premiere clip of Harmony Korine's AGGRO DR1FT has me more excited than anything I've seen in a long while, since Godard and Costa.
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craig keller
9 months
Saw Mann's director's cut of BLACKHAT. This is one of the most stunningly weird films of recent times!
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craig keller
5 months
If I were to start an email cc list thing where people, everyone and anyone, can sign up, and we discuss a single film till we feel like moving on to the next one — would anyone be interested?
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7 years
9 excerpts I translated from the amazing new/2016 Jean-Luc Godard interview (details in top of post) —
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craig keller
4 years
via @theMummyMa — Jean-Luc Godard in conversation a few weeks ago in English and French (subtitled) after the lifetime achievement award, for 1 hour 30 minutes!
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craig keller
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He made a fifty-page brochure with each page constituting one shot. He told Aragno and Battaggia that this was "his best film." Fin de thread. Fin de cinéma.
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craig keller
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Precisely. Nolan is such a ghastly ghoul he thinks the visceral feeling of the atomic bomb will be “a showstopper.” It’s more obscene than the tracking shot in KAPO. Hiroshima, mon ami?
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The worst aspects of Michael Bay, but for people who want to think they’re having an “intellectual experience” instead of fun.
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craig keller
1 year
Anyone an Armitage MIAMI BLUES fan? Fred Ward plays a detective with teeth like Dafoe in that one movie but wears dentures to conceal the grotesquerie
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craig keller
9 years
My translation of Philippe Garrel's memorial of Chantal Akerman from the Nov issue of @cahierscinema is back online.
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craig keller
1 year
RIP Henri Serre at 92, the magnificent Jim of Truffaut’s JULES ET JIM, and a star of Cavalier’s LE COMBAT DANS L’ÎLE (available via @FilmsRadiance ). I only just found out he died last Monday.
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craig keller
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Actully have no problem w/ the de-aging in THE IRISHMAN. Hollywood always used gimmicky tricks to deal with this though admittedly usually to make a character/actor look old. It looks fake, but the bias is just digital tools. Which everyone from Rivette to Kiarostami to JLG used.
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I posted two new translated pieces on Jean-Pierre Gorin from recent issues of Cahiers: one is a short report from Charlotte Garson, the other an interview by Garson with Gorin. Subscribe to Cahiers.
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craig keller
3 years
It also should be noted that for all her extreme beauty, Vitti embodied an alienation and fractured psychosis that upended expectations onscreen and within the audiences, who could relate silently.
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craig keller
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Super stoked to be involved with the new @TheFilmDesk label. Thank you to the master-chief Jake Perlin. We have some AMAZING stuff coming down the road! In the meantime, set your pre-orders for our first release, Claire Denis's monstrous TROUBLE EVERY DAY.
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Alain Delon. Love-hate relationship inviting a strange interaction. Was never a major fan and didn’t find him that fascinating, as I do with Robert Ryan or Sterling Hayden. But Delon led some of the best movies ever made: NOUVELLE VAGUE, L’ECLISSE, LE SAMOURAÏ.
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craig keller
3 years
Rest In Peace Hermine Karagheuz, who died two days ago, one of the ultimate actress presences of the ‘70s films of Jacques Rivette, including the all-shattering 13-hours-in final shot of OUT 1. RIP Cinema Goddess
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craig keller
8 months
Two days ago saw the premiere in Venice of Abel Ferrara's documentary in Ukraine with Zelensky, shot by Sean Price Williams, TURN IN THE WOUND.
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1 year
I just wonder how many people on here going on about the New Wave this and that have ever seen, let's stick to, Luc Moullet's films, and writings, and books. Srikanth Srinivasan has translated key texts at — but there's only a circle of 10 who ever RTs him
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craig keller
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FURIOSA is a landmark in the history of the cinema. More in a bit. It is one of the best movies I have ever seen in my life. Every single moment is exhilarating. #MadMax #Furiosa
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Been working piecemeal on these Truffaut translations at my blog from the '23 debut issue of the new Cahiers hors-série (with the obituary Godard wrote for him from the '84 special issue). First in a series:
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craig keller
1 year
Latest issue of Cahiers about Hollywood is very good. Say what you will about the revue’s different phases and periods, but no-one puts in the work or has the curiosity of their editorial board in North American titles, where it’s just incessant festival coverage and free trips.
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2 years
Moullet: "Like a majority of the technical rules in use, this is also a strictly western law. The Japanese constantly break the shot-reverse shot line; for them the problem does not arise. Imagine: had Japan won the war, that would have been the end of 180 degrees!"
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craig keller
2 years
Brian Wilson created a cathedral of the beach
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craig keller
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Radiance will be releasing a box set of three Jean-Pierre Mocky films..!!
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Radiance Films
7 months
*ANNOUNCEMENTS* We are delighted to present our June slate: A yakuza classic, masterpieces from rural Italy, the wild world of Jean-Pierre Mocky and more Dirty Arthouse🧵
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