Blog Archives

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Part II

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Part II

November 12, 2010 | By

Review of the Argentinian documentary Metropolis Refound / Metropolis refundada (2010), which recently aired on TCM, covering the discovery of a near-complete 16mm print of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis…

Read More

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Part I

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Part I

November 11, 2010 | By

Editor’s Blog and review of the newly restored Metropolis, which premiered with a new score by Gabriel Thibaudeau, and is now playing exclusively at the TIFF Bell Lightbox…

Read More

ADRIENNE MITCHELL & JANIS LUNDMAN (2010)

ADRIENNE MITCHELL & JANIS LUNDMAN (2010)

November 10, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Filmmakers . With Season 3 of Durham County now underway via HBO Canada, addicts of the series can further watch what newer and weirder elements will challenge the Sweeney family, and maybe send them packing back to the raccoon-infested environs of Toronto. Perhaps that’s an exaggeration (Raccoons in Toronto? […]

Read More

PETER CHAPMAN (2010)

PETER CHAPMAN (2010)

November 10, 2010 | By

Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Composers Having scored Seasons 2 and 3 of Durham County, composer Peter Chapman isn’t a newcomer anymore, but his music is a fresh mix of the abstract, the impressionistic, the melodic, and the weird. Chapman took over the scoring chores for Season 2, basing his score around the main […]

Read More

What’s Up, Peter?

What’s Up, Peter?

October 26, 2010 | By

Reviews of Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc? (Warner Home Video), and his much maligned salute to thirties musicals, the all-singing, all Cole Porter, all-painful At Long Last Love (1975)…

Read More