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The seven most influential filmmaking countries of the '00s.
Mon, Dec 28 2009 12:00 PM

At the Telegraph, critic (and former professor of mine) Sukhdev Sandhu writes about "the sorry decline of American cinema" and comes up with a handful of cultural flashpoints for the future: "The new energy hubs are likely to be found in Mexico; in Romania; in Thailand... in Lagos... in Korea." While I don't agree with his blanket bashing... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: China, Iran, Police Adjective, Argentina, Sundry, Import Export, Blissfully Yours, Memories of Murder, Korea, Crimson Gold, Still Life, Austria, Thailand, XXY, Romania

"Metropolis," as it was meant to be seen! (For real, this time.)
Fri, Oct 30 2009 6:42 AM

Few movies are as incomplete yet overwhelmingly influential as Fritz Lang's 1927 "Metropolis." Any movie you've seen with enormous, gigantic architecture set in an ominous future or a mythical past -- "Brazil," "The Hudsucker Proxy," "The Fifth Element," even this year's "The International" -- stole... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Metropolis, Fritz Lang, Brazil, Giorgio Moroder, Argentina, Pat Benatar, Berlin 2010