By John ThomasonThe Magician (Criterion)Standard list price: $29.95Release date: Oct. 12Ask 10 film scholars to name the 10 most important Ingmar Bergman films, and it’s quite likely The Magician wouldn’t make any of their lists. This is both a testament to the director’s career-long consistency in producing masterpieces and perhaps a grave oversight. … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: Aug. 20-22
Tilda Swinton as the title character in Orlando.Film: Tilda Swinton broke into the wider consciousness back in 1992 with her star turn as Orlando, the androgynous hero/heroine of Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending novel of a Tudor-era Zelig who begins as a debonair male court poet in 1588 and ends up in 1928 as a married woman. In Sally … [Read more...]
Weekend arts picks: July 2-5
Marisa Berenson, Pippo Delbono, Tilda Swinton,Alba Rohrwacher, Mattia Zaccaro, Flavio Parentiand Maria Paiato, in I Am Love.Film: There is an alternative to the vampires and werewolves of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the sci-fi fantasy of The Last Airbender. It’s I Am Love, a sensuous film from debuting Italian director Luca Guadagnino with a starring performance by Oscar … [Read more...]