By Cleaver Patterson. You can always tell summer has come to an end and autumn is on the way when the BFI holds the programme launch for its annual celluloid viewing extravaganza which is the BFI London Film Festival. Going by the film trailers—which played to the assembled press at […]
Film Scratches: Patterns of Violence – Blind Spot (2014)
August 12, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Blind Spot is a 9 minute short by Cristin Hughes made from clips appropriated from commercial films such as Basic Instinct, […]
From Film International to Film Restoration
August 5, 2016
When interviewing Lassie Lou Ahern – one of the last two silent film stars still around – for a piece in Film International (13.1), Jeff Crouse learned of her desire to have her 1927 film, Little Mickey Grogan, restored. As an activist in several aspects of film culture, Crouse began rescuing the film, in which she starred alongside […]
Film Scratches: Modernist Myths – Orphine (2014)
July 25, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Orphine is an intricate and complex 12-minute short on mythic themes by Sarahjane Swan and Roger Simian. The video is based […]
Film Scratches: Dancing with Trees – Lilong (2009)
July 18, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. The title of Valentina Ferrandes’ 11 minute short Lilong refers to something conspicuously absent in the film itself. The notes for […]
Announcing George Toles’ Paul Thomas Anderson (University of Illinois Press, 2016)
July 13, 2016
The new study of Paul Thomas Anderson’s films by critic, screenwriter, and occasional Film International contributor George Toles (author of A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film, and co-writer of the screenplays for The Saddest Music in the World, Brand Upon the Brain!, Keyhole, and others) will appear in […]
Film Scratches: Odd Intersections – Inside/outside (DOGS VIII) (2014)
July 7, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Inside/outside (DOGS VIII) by Berlin-based artist Enkidu rankX is a four minute video study of the view from a Berlin streetcar. […]
Film Scratches: A Symbolic Journey – Catalysts and Aftershocks (2014)
July 3, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. Catalysts and Aftershocks is a poignant and poetic four-and-a-half-minute silent short by Jessica J Giacobbe, examining a garden and an old […]
FilmInt on the Underground: Ten Minutes with Johnny Simmons (on The Phenom)
FilmInt on the Underground is a blog dedicated to emerging filmmakers and other talent. By Roy Koriakin. Here goes a ten-minute interview with Johnny Simmons, the lead of a new baseball movie, The Phenom. Ten minutes is a very short amount of time for an interview. He was working on […]
Film Scratches: Structures to Contain Women – Noe Kidder’s Zone Four (2015)
June 20, 2016
Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. A Review by David Finkelstein. “The Women of Zone Four did not belong to themselves,” begins the first voice-over narration of Zone Four, a dense and […]