HBD Asghar Farhadi!!! MCCT5: 5)About Elly 4)Beautiful City 3)A Separation 2)Fireworks Wednesday 1)The Past
From Us: midcenturycinema.org/2022/01/23/new…
More:
-Giles Harvey/NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2019/01/31/mag…
-Farnaz Fassihi: nytimes.com/2022/02/25/wor…
-✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi: vulture.com/2022/02/a-long…

5/7/43: Jean Renoir's occupation drama This Land is Mine, w/Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
More:
-Leonard Quart/Cineaste Magazine: cineaste.com/summer2013/fro…
-Crowther, impressed: nytimes.com/1943/05/28/arc…

Of timely interest . . . Pure Nonfiction interview with Paul (Medium Cool) Cronin (harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/mediu…):
purenonfiction.net/episodes/185-p…

5/7/58: Arthur Penn's 1st feature, The Left Handed Gun, w/Paul Newman
#3 on François Truffaut's 1958 T10 (#1: Touch of Evil, #5: 7th Seal)
More:
-Nathan Rabin: nathanrabin.com/happy-place/20…
-C Scott/Collider: collider.com/paul-newman-le…
-Greg MacArthur/Screen Rant: screenrant.com/paul-newman-th…

This is kind of amazing. I don’t believe Sibylle Baier has ever appeared in public before. upstatefilms.org/alice-in-the-c…

HBD Asghar Farhadi!!! MCCT5: 5)About Elly 4)Beautiful City 3)A Separation 2)Fireworks Wednesday 1)The Past
From Us: midcenturycinema.org/2022/01/23/new…
More:
-Giles Harvey/NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2019/01/31/mag…
-Farnaz Fassihi: nytimes.com/2022/02/25/wor…
-✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi: vulture.com/2022/02/a-long…

More for BOTD Orson Welles:
-Our deep dive/revisionist defense of The Stranger via Cineaste Magazine: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/upl…
-Our Welles-inflected chat w/David Thomson via
Los Angeles Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-very…
-Our take on OW & more, via Boston Review: bostonreview.net/literature-cul…

BOTD George Orson Welles!!!!
Two appreciations from us, with more to follow:
-midcenturycinema.org/2015/04/30/new…
-midcenturycinema.org/2015/05/24/new…
[NB: Touch of Evil lands on our 2022 Sight & Sound T10 ballot: midcenturycinema.org/2022/04/09/new…]

Congratulations to New York Film Festival Main Slate selection committee member Justin Chang on being awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism!

Very well deserved! Read all of Justin’s new writing exclusively at The The New Yorker.

BOTD Cinematographer Lucien Ballard! MCCT5 leaves out many gems: 5)Fixed Bayonets (Fuller) 4)Berlin Express (Tourneur) 3)Murder by Contract (Lerner) 2)The Wild Bunch (Peckinpah) 1)The Killing (Kubrick)
More via 1998 NYT obit: nytimes.com/1988/10/06/obi…

HBD George Clooney! MCCT5: 5)Hail Caesar! (Coens) 4)Syriana (Gaghan) 3)Good Night and Good Luck (+D) 2)Michael Clayton (Gilroy) 1)The Descendants (Payne)
Interviews:
-erickohn: indiewire.com/2017/09/george…
-Paul Chi: vanityfair.com/hollywood/geor…
-Hadley Freeman: theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/…

A few more for Welles
From us:
-On the Other Side of the Wind: midcenturycinema.org/2018/10/03/new…
-On Kael, Chimes: midcenturycinema.org/2017/06/25/50-…
-Geoff Andrew on Shanghai: bfi.org.uk/features/lady-…
-Film Inquiry @ SXSW/ The Trial: filminquiry.com/the-trial-1962…
-Callow/F for Fake: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…

More for BOTD Orson Welles:
-Our deep dive/revisionist defense of The Stranger via Cineaste Magazine: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/upl…
-Our Welles-inflected chat w/David Thomson via
Los Angeles Review of Books: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-very…
-Our take on OW & more, via Boston Review: bostonreview.net/literature-cul…

#70s Alert: Was trapped at the TV today and stumbled across Allen Garfield . . . in an episode of Ironside!
(S7/E11 'Double Edged Corner')
Not bad as such things go, reliably watchable AG, silly ending
Heads up Heather Hendershot!!

BOTD Max Ophuls!!! MCCT5 5)Letter from an Unknown Woman 4)Caught 3)La Plaisir 2)Earrings of Madame De 1)Reckless Moment
More:
-Lopate: nytimes.com/1999/06/20/mov…?
-BFI: bfi.org.uk/sight-and-soun…
-Jeremy Carr: sensesofcinema.com/2017/great-dir…
-A Swanson/Film School Rejects: filmschoolrejects.com/beginners-guid…

BOTD George Orson Welles!!!!
Two appreciations from us, with more to follow:
-midcenturycinema.org/2015/04/30/new…
-midcenturycinema.org/2015/05/24/new…
[NB: Touch of Evil lands on our 2022 Sight & Sound T10 ballot: midcenturycinema.org/2022/04/09/new…]

BONNIE & CLYDE screens May 8 on 35mm, part of Academy Museum Branch Selects, co-presented by the @academymuseum and @paristheaternyc.

Starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, BONNIE & CLYDE is one of the defining works of New Hollywood cinema. Tickets: bit.ly/bonnieandclyde…

5/5/65: Godard's Alphaville
Not peak JLG for us, BUT: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff in glorious B&W via Raoul Coutard ➡️ must see
More
-Eric Hynes/Reverse Shot: reverseshot.org/features/1057/…
-Richard Brody: newyorker.com/culture/richar…
-Richard Williams: theguardian.com/film/filmblog/…

5/5/54: Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar, w/Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden + +
So out there it goes to 11
More:
-Ebert: rogerebert.com/reviews/johnny…
-Anton Bitel/Little White Lies: lwlies.com/articles/johnn…
-A G Taormina/Film Daze: filmdaze.net/johnny-guitar/
-Richard Brody: newyorker.com/culture/the-fr…

5/5/74: Peak Columbo 'A Friend in Deed'
D Mr. Ben Gazarra; W Peter Fischer, w/Richard Kiley, Michael McGuire, Val Avery
Ultimate expression of Jeff Greenfield take on the series: nyti.ms/1MO1oAW
More
-Lieutenant Columbo: columbophile.com/2018/04/28/epi…
-Our T10: midcenturycinema.org/node/143