Posted by Jason Diamond If you’re going to give money on Kickstarter to one literary film projects, consider “Algren — The Movie.” And if you aren’t familiar with Nelson Algren, at least do it because you want to hear some Simone de Beauvoir sex talk.
War books to forgotten films: “The Naked and the Dead”
Posted by Jason Diamond I may have heard once or twice that there was a film version of Norman Mailer’s 1948 novel, but I forgot — just like most of the world seems to have done.
Stephen King on a “Carrie” remake
Posted by Jason Diamond “I guess I could get behind it if they turned the project over to one of the Davids: Lynch or Cronenberg.” -Stephen King talking to Entertainment Weekly about the possibility of a remake of Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of King’s book, Carrie.
Sholem Aleichem gets the documentary treatment
Posted by Jason Diamond A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern […]
Vol.1 Abroad: Our Editors on Carrie Brownstein, “Beautiful Darling,” and more
(A mostly weekly roundup of what Vol.1’s editors are writing elsewhere on the web.) Within Darling’s diaries sits a line so loaded with raw intention for each of us that Rasin has opted for it to be a closing note of the film. “You must always be yourself no matter what the price,” writes Candy. “It is the highest form of morality.” As it turns out, it’s not an easy thing to genuinely be yourself. –Nick Curley on Beautiful Darling, […]
Happy Birthday, Orson Welles
Posted by Jason Diamond Anything I’d say about Orson Welles has already been said before. So for today, his birthday, we present his most classic work.
“Blank City” and New York “Back in the Day”
Posted by Jason Diamond From what I’ve gathered, every moment in New York City history is better than the one before it, and this is the cycle that will continue until we finally leave this place to the cockroaches — which incidentally almost happened in the 1970s, when the Big Apple was perpetually fucked, making modern day Detroit look polite and Midwestern. The new film Blank City sets out to document the history of “No Wave Cinema” and “Cinema of […]
BAMcinématek Presents Brian De Palma “Suspense”
Posted by Matthew Caron The middle of April finds BAMcinématek taking a fond look at the work of filmmaker Brian De Palma with the ten-film retrospective De Palma Suspense, which includes appearances by self-professed fan Noah Baumbach and Ed Pressman who produced many of the films being exhibited. It includes at least two masterpieces, a few very good films and at least two confirmed turkeys, all of which are well worth checking out in glorious 35mm.