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A Dangerous Devotion: Lars Von Trier’s ‘Dancer in the Dark’ and Kelly...
Copyright © 2012 by James Clark At the outset of Kelly Reichardt’s film from 2008, Wendy is taking her dog, Lucy, for a walk in some wooded area near a railway freight yard where one of the boxcars...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie If last weeks adoration for the Smiths and the poetry of Morrissey left any doubt of my manic love affair with his work I suppose this weeks offering will cast the remaining ones aside. Only...
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On purge Bébé – 1931, Jean Renoir
by Allan Fish (France 1931 47m) DVD2 (France only, no English subs) Ou est l’Hebrides p Pierre Braunberger, Roger Richébe d Jean Renoir w Jean Renoir, Pierre Prévert play Georges Feydeau ph...
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There’s More Than One of Everything: Makoto Shinkai’s “The Place Promised In...
By Bob Clark Note: In honor of upcoming screenings for Makoto Shinkai’s latest feature, Children Who Chase Lost Voices From Deep Below at the forthcoming New York International Children’s Film...
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1926 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor & Actress – RESULTS
by Allan Fish As always, straight to it. Best Picture The General, US (10 votes) Best Director Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, The General (9 votes) Best Short Menilmontant, Dimitri Kirsanoff,...
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A 13 film William Wellman Bonanza, Judy Geater and ‘Michael’ on Monday...
by Sam Juliano Mild weather continues to grace metropolitan area denizens as the specter of March is now within hailing distance. The Oscar broadcast is six days away and “Presidents’ Week” has...
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L’Enfant de Paris – 1913, Léonce Perret
by Allan Fish (France 1913 120m) DVD1 Aka. The Child of Paris Little Marie-Laure d/w Léonce Perret ph Georges Specht art Robert Jules-Garnier Suzanne le Bret (Marie-Laure de Valen), Jeanne...
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Sam and Dennis Talk Oscars
This interview was filmed two weeks ago at the Edgewater multiplex and at the Boulevard Diner in North Bergen, New Jersey by Jason Giampietro, who also provided the dazzling embellishments.
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Finding Ford / 3 Bad Men (1926)
By Peter Lenihan The name of this series is half-borrowed from a very short post of screen captures I did for Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man a while back that I entitled “Rediscovering John...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie I’ve been a bit bogged down with work and specifically freelance work this week, so like a few previous times before I’m unable to finish a post this week. Also like before, I’ll offer a...
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La Bête Humaine – 1938, Jean Renoir
by Allan Fish (France 1938 100m) DVD1/2 Aka. The Human Beast; Judas Was a Woman A black smoke p Robert Hakim d/w Jean Renoir novel Emile Zola ph Curt Courant ed Marguerite Renoir m Joseph...
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A Plea for Criterion Eclipse Sets of the Future
by Allan Fish We all have our own ideas of what releases Criterion need to bring out in the upcoming months/years. Requests ranging from the mad (Showgirls) to the unlikely (The Magnificent...
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Jaime’s Obligatory Oscar Post (2012 edition)
by Jaime Grijalba. The Oscar race is done, and the principal winners are already known. They’re predictable at this time of year, but sometimes we have an itch, something that tells us that maybe not...
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Three Hankies Per Second: The Short Animations of Makoto Shinkai
By Bob Clark Makoto Shinkai’s origins as an amateur animator, creating a pair of shorts in his off time as an illustrator at a Japanese game company, are now something like the stuff of otaku legend....
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1927 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor and Actress – RESULTS
by Allan Fish Again, right to it. We could wax lyrical about what a bastard of a decision it was, at least compared to which flavour of shit the academy will vote for tonight. Best Picture Sunrise, US...
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16 Wellman Films, The Oscars and The Artist on Monday Morning Diary (February...
by Sam Juliano As a cold spell envelopes the northeast the Academy Awards were staged in Los Angeles amidst the usual flurry of both casual interest and condemnation, and the results seemed sure to put...
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Komissar – 1967, Aleksandr Askoldov
by Allan Fish (USSR 1967 108m) DVD1/2 Aka. The Commissar The trams will never be running p V.Levin, L.Prilutzkaya d/w Alexander Askoldov novel “In the Town of Berdichev” by Vasily Grossman ph...
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Crimes of Passion: Henri-Georges Clouzot’s ‘La Verite’
Copyright © 2012 by James Clark Henri-Georges Clouzot was a most peculiar filmmaker who endured a most peculiar tenure. From out of an early career as a screenwriter and screenplay refurbisher, his...
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Un Carnet de Bal – 1937, Julien Duvivier
by Allan Fish (France 1937 128m) DVD2 (France only, no English subs) Aka. Life Dances On; Christine Loneliness is the same everywhere p Jean-Pierre Frogeries d Julien Duvivier w Jean Sarment,...
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The Blood of an Otaku: Makoto Shinkai’s “Children Who Chase Voices From Deep...
By Bob Clark In honor of this film’s showing as a part of the New York International Children’s Film Festival, this piece is being rerun. A schedule for the entire festival, including one morning...
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