Author: tederick
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ARETHA FRANKLIN (1942-2018)
The Queen of Soul passed away last month and we are here to talk about it. Who are we? D-E-A-T-H-W-A-T-C-H. Sing a song about it.
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion’s ANDREI RUBLEV Is A Stacked Disc
“Live between divine forgiveness and your own torment.” I had a fantastic time going through Criterion’s new blu-ray of Tarkovsky’s ANDREI RUBLEV, which somehow manages to be both dreary and enlightening at the same time.
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Blu-ray Review: An All-Time Great Party Scene Graces Criterion’s COLD WATER Blu-ray
“The plot isn’t much and neither are the characterizations, and it’s not until the second act that the film really kicks into gear, by abandoning plot and characterization altogether and jacking straight into adolescent phantasmagoria.”
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Deathwatch: SHINOBU HASHIMOTO (1918-2018)
This prolific screenwriter collaborated with Akira Kurosawa through the most fruitful period of that director’s career; accidentally helped birth STAR WARS; and with RASHOMON, may have permanently redefined the concept and structure of narrative itself. This month we look at THE OUTRAGE (1964, an American remake of RASHOMON) and Masaki Kobayashi’s masterful 1962 film HARA…
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TIFF loves TIFFR
Very happy to get TIFF and TIFFR a little closer together for (their) tenth anniversary, as TIFF ’18 is about to begin! More here: https://www.tiff.net/the-review/we-love-tiffr/
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ANTHONY BOURDAIN (1956-2018)
The news of Anthony Bourdain’s sudden death by suicide in June rolled across the world like a wave. The Deathwatch team dives into his work and holds up a life well lived.
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Blu-ray Review: King Hu Makes Sword-Sharp Wuxia in DRAGON INN
Made in 1967, Hu’s wuxia thriller hits the Criterion Collection this week at spine #937. The film has been restored in 4K. Colour in the outdoor scenes is stunning: the scorched electric blues of the sky against the mountains, or the loamy greens of forest streams, pop our quartet of martial heroes out of the…
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Deathwatch: ANNE V. COATES (1925-2018)
Wanna start a fight with a cinephile? Ask whether the match cut (which is NOT a match cut) from Lawrence of Arabia, or the bone cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey, is the greatest single edit of all time. Regardless, Anne V. Coates is one hell of an editor.
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Blu-ray Review: Time, Memory, and Parents Confound in Victor Erice’s EL SUR
“Voiceover narration from Estrella as an adult — a woman piecing together things she half-understood as a child — gives the film the aura of a Michael Ondaatje novel. Estrella’s father Agustin, played with careworn rebelliousness by Italian actor Omero Antonutti, is almost a wizard character, all dowsing rods and divining pendulums. His behaviour, even…