Retrospectives Coming Soon to the Reverse Shot Cinematheque
Programmed by filmenthusiast2000, seanmcavoy, eshman, mjr, robbiefreeling, bugs meaney, and clarencecarter
May 1-15: Theater Full of Part-Time Film Critics: The Reverent Kino-Eye of Hou Hsiao-hsien
May 16-25: Ugly Buildings, Whores, and Shamelessly Posturing Downtown Trash: The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch
May 26-30: Jean-Pierre Melville: Crime Dramas So "Precise" and "Immaculate" You'll Be Wishing for Midnight Run
June 2-17: Ooh Look At That Shiny Thing Over There, Wait There's Another One: The Worlds of Danny Boyle
June 18-July 10: Try to Remember Which Movie Was Which in a Month: An Ozu Chrestomathy
July 12-14: Reefer Madness: A Weekend with Terrence Malick
July 15, special event: There Will Be Blood: Haskell Wexler and David Carradine Discuss Bound for Glory
July 20-29: From Kinky to Stinky: The Career Trajectory of Jonathan Demme
August 4-29: Theater Full of Disgusting People: A Bunch of Old Crime Movies at Film Forum
August 30- September 2: Everybody's Stupid and I Hate Them, Hate Them, Hate Them: The Mature Visions of Todd Solondz
September 3-4: But I Don't Want To :'( -- You'll Watch These Jason Statham Movies and LIKE THEM!
September 5-14: Hop In and I'll Get You Some New Air Jordans and We'll Grab Pizza!: Victor Salva, Filmmaker
September 16-20: Because It Is Bitter and Because It Is My Heart: The Apocalyptic Phantasms of McG
September 21-30: I Don't Know What the Hell I'm Talking About: The First Draft cinema of Woody Allen
October 1-11: Not Nearly as Funny as You Remember: Mel Brooks's Stuff
October 15-31: Oshima and Imamura: Wow, Postwar Japan Sure Looked Like a Degraded Fucked-Up Shithole, eh?
November 1-15: What's this Pile of Rusty, Vinegar-y Canisters in the Archive Basement?: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg Rides Again
November 16-20: But She Was Kinda Cute: The Documentaries of Leni Riefenstahl
November 22-30: The CD-ROMS of Chris Marker
December 1-10: Expensive Naps: The Weerasethakul Oeuvre
December 11-14: Meh: Half a Decade of Mumblecore
December 15-22: Still an Asshole: Godard at 80
December 24-31: Eye-Searingly Unwatchable: A Festival of Student Works by Reverse Shot Contributors
10 Comments
ian | April 17, 2009
"Do You Feel Implicated? Ah Say-ad... DO YOU FEEEEEEEEL IMPLICATED, NYC?!?!?!" - The gracelessly chiding cinema of Michael Haneke
John | April 16, 2009
Furtive Glances Towards the Seat I Saved For Dad: the Cinema of Steven Spielberg Robert Altman: AMERICA, FUCK YEAH! Considering the Masturauteur: French New Wave's navel-gazing cinema of the self HAHAHAHAHAHAHA @ YOU: Uwe Boll has more money than you and doesn't give a shit about anything "Why Don't You Bring Your Brother Along Too?": Remembering Chris Penn If It's the Fucking Cops...: A Journey into the private life of Jess Friedman (curated by Jess Friedman) How Do You Call 'Cut' in Hungarian?: something something Bela Tarr
jcshumate | April 16, 2009
ps what's with this present bent of self-parody at RS? Masochists. When's the next retrospective proper? P.T. Anderson and the critical establishment's forever transforming and self-justifying discourse therein...ABCs of Auteurdom.
jcshumate | April 16, 2009
genre filmmaking's mutilated corpse, turned onto its left side to quell the bleeding, at which point roger deakins (or whoever...)fixes a camera on it and the dying man is forced to tell vaudeville jokes. Consequences and the Brothers Coen
Pill | April 16, 2009
The World's Longest Cadbury Commercials: The Cinema of Roy Andersson You Deserve to Have Your Face Smeared with Shit: Ulrich Seidl and Millenial Austria He's Not Much, But He's The Best We Have to Offer Right Now: Shane Meadows and the Non-Existence of Vital Cinema in England. Stop Calling Me Arnie: Keith Gordon, Heir to Kubrick I Said Suck My Cock You Fucking Little Bitch: Gaspar Noe and The New French Cinema of Romance Night Terrors for Kids Whose Parents Want to Drag Out the Child Custody Hearings for an Entire Decade: Ralph Bakshi, The Anti-Disney Creeps and Ghouls: Brad Dourif and the Case for a Forgotten 80s Auteur Every Wedding Should End with a Gangbang of the Bride: Nic Roeg's Theresa Russell
robbiefreeling | April 16, 2009
These are all great and I would attend any of them. To answer jcshumate's question, a new symposium is (finally) going up in the next week or so, so stick around. It was a difficult birth. Hopefully after that they'll come at a quicker clip. And to answer the prior question, yes, we hate ourselves. Flagellate!!
brotherfromanother | April 16, 2009
"Je ne Peux Plus Sentir Mon Derrière": The Butt Numbing Mastery of Philippe Garel Alle-Gory: What All these Fucking Zombie Movies Can Tell Us About Our World. Straub/Huiliet: We Fucking Dare You. It Takes a Village: Reverse Shot Overrates M. Night Shyamalan Feminism is Where We Find It: a Roundtable Conversation with Quentin Tarantino and Brian De Palma Magical Mystery Auteur: We Take the Director's Name Off the Film, You Try and Figure Out Whether You You Love it Or Hate It (Curated by Armond White) "Really?": Making the Case for James Gray Merry Christmas and Happy Haneke! (Winter '09 Retrospective) by the way, gokinsmen: the Lynch one made me laugh for about three solid minutes. so thank you.
gokinsmen | April 15, 2009
You Guys Like The Kinks, Right?: The Films-cum-Music Montages of Wes Anderson James Benning Literally Watches Paint Dry: A Ten Part Series A David Lynch Retrospective...Or Is It? Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Stop Calling Me "Joe" You Imperialist F*cks
seanmcavoy | April 15, 2009
I wonder which one the people in the picture are at. I like to think it's The CD-ROMS of Chris Marker.
Mark Asch | April 15, 2009
Unnecessary ZOOOOOM!: The Ramblings of Robert Altman