On apprend aujourd’hui la nouvelle, grâce à Louis Skorecki, que Jean-Pierre Oudart est mort, confirmé, le 13 février, 2009 à Antony (Hauts-de-Seine). On pense à lui, et à les deux, et je mets ici mes textes sur lui que j’ai écrit pour ma recherche dans l’histoire des Cahiers du cinéma. – D.D. *** [Meilleur des Cahiers 123/x]   Les Couvertures d’Oudart Jean-Pierre Oudart entre aux Cahiers en janvier 1969.  Il envoie un texte chez le bureau de la revue et, apparemment, les rédacteurs en chef l’apprécie bien et décide de lui publier. Oudart serait une machine de g ..read more

David Davidson 1. Attila (Stephen Hosier) 2. BlackBerry (Matt Johnson) 3. Mademoiselle Kenopsia (Denis Côté) - The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki) - Close Your Eyes (Víctor Erice) - The Holdovers (Alexander Payne) - Music (Angela Schanelec) - Asteroid City (Wes Anderson) - Fallen Leaves (Aki Kaurismäki) - Master Gardener (Paul Schrader) - Oppenheimer (Christopher Nolan) - Priscilla (Sofia Coppola) - Au cimetière de la pellicule (Thierno Souleymane Diallo) - Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet) And some miscellanea local productions ..read more

  En hommage à celui qui a dirigé Positif pour plus longtemps que j’étais vivant, voici un entretien que j’ai fait avec lui au festival de Berlin en 2020 (quelque mois avant la pandémie) : une trentaine de minute joyeux ou on parler un peu de sa vie, la revue Positif, Orson Welles, Kafka, Bernard Chardère, Robert Benayoun, François Truffaut, Godard, les Cahiers du cinéma, Wanda de Loden, Kazan, le vieux Hollywood, le nouveaux cinéma des années soixante, Kubrick, Resnais, une cinéphilie internationale, des polémiques, le cinéma des années 2010, ces relations a ..read more

 David Davidson - À vendredi, Robinson (Mitra Farahadi, Jean-Luc Godard) - Crimes of the Future (David Cronenberg) - Geographies of Solitude (Jacquelyn Mills) - Queens of Qing Dynasty (Ashley McKenzie) - The Maiden (Graham Foy) - Turning Red (Domee Shi) - Pacifiction (Albert Serra) - The Batman (Matt Reeves) - The Handmaid’s Tale – Season 5 (Margaret Atwood, Elisabeth Moss) - The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg) -  Nope (Jordan Peele), Wakanda Forever (Ryan Coogler), and The Way of Water (James Cameron)   ..read more

 Once again, I’m happy to share Mitch Greenberg’s review of Rebeccah Love’s newest short-film, Eve Parade, which will be premiering on April 16th at the Paradise Theatre. – D.D.   I once attended a screening of Don Shebib’s Between Friends on the fourth floor of Robarts Library. The Canadian legend himself was there to introduce his film, and over the course of our brief conversation, he described his cinematic philosophy as ‘Hegelian’. Over the years, I’ve often pondered this enigmatic and polyvalent statement, unsure whether I’d ever fully grasp its meanin ..read more

In memory of Jean-Marc Vallée…   David Davidson - Matt and Bird Break Loose (Matt Johnson) and The Beatles: Get Back (Peter Jackson) - Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) - Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy and Drive My Car (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) - Tralala (Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu) - The French Dispatch (Wes Anderson), The Tsugua Diaries (Maureen Fazendeiro, Miguel Gomes), Cry Macho (Clint Eastwood) - Ste. Anne (Rhayne Vermette) and Night Raiders (Danis Goulet) - Ville Neuve&nb ..read more

 I'm happy to share Nathan Powell's new episode of his great Hamilton gonzo web-series Steel Town Gaming and an introduction by him where he explains his process. I highly recommend it ! - D.D. *** Hello to all fans of filmmaking, Toronto, and the online world at large!   It’s quite an honour to be featured on the Toronto Film Review blog. Back in the day, when I was an increasingly disillusioned film student in my final years of college, this place was an invaluable resource for many things, and particularly for its coverage of Matt Johnson and Nirvanna the Band the S ..read more

I'm happy to share my friend's Mitch Greenberg's review of Rebeccah Love's newest short film, Parlour Palm, currently streamable via CBC Gem as part of the Future of Film Showcase. - D.D.  *** Parlour Palm is everything the Canadian critical establishment has celebrated: an uncanny re-presentation of psychosis, an animated domestic drama, a philosophical enigma. But these remain insufficient grounds of celebration. Parlour Palm is something more: it is a rebuttal to Canadian cinema’s ‘tradition of quality’. Canadian audiences have long lamented the general malaise of our n ..read more

David Davidson 1. Parlour Palm and Short Pieces (Rebeccah Love) 2. First Cow (Kelly Reichardt) 3. The Woman Who Ran (Hong Sang-soo) 4. Tommaso / Siberia / Sportin’ Life / The Projectionist (Abel Ferrara)  5. Watchmen (Damon Lindelof) and I May Destroy You (Michaela Coel) 6. Ewa Goes Viral (Erik Anderson) and Plea Bargaining (Mitch Greenberg) 7. Still Standing – Season 6 (Jonny Harris) 8. City Hall (Frederick Wiseman) 9. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Aaron Sorkin) and Mrs. America&nb ..read more

There’s Buster Keaton, bored, at a graduation ceremony, in a full academic robe and square cap, as his peers brightly look towards the future. How to interpret his recognizable blank expression? While his cohort seems excited at the prospects of being indoctrinated into “civil” society, Keaton’s heart is elsewhere, that blank stare perfectly expressing that dread of imposed restrictions.  The still is from College and it graces the cover of the penultimate issue of Stéphane Delorme’s editorship of Cahiers du Cinéma. Delorme writes in its editorial “The End” that the curre ..read more