Out of the Past 2011: My Diary
Dan SallittWe continue our end-of-2011 celebration not of new films but of old films revived and seen throughout the year.
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In Defense of Julia Leigh's "Sleeping Beauty"
Dan SallittAn appreciative stylistic analysis of director-writer Julia Leigh’s controversial debut feature.
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Toronto 2011. Days Nine and Ten
Dan SallittOur final days at the Toronto International Film Festival features two strong new films.
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Toronto 2011. Days Seven and Eight
Dan SallittFilms by big names (the Dardennes, Terence Davies, Chantal Akerman) and an impressive debut by Santiago Mitre.
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Toronto 2011. Days Five and Six
Dan SallittA Russian surprise and a film by Rodrigo Moreno come out on top, with less successful efforts from Vallée, Friedkin and Pen-Ek.
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Toronto 2011. Days Three and Four
Dan SallittStrong films by Karim Aïnouz, Julia Loktev, and Alejandro Landes, and disappointments from Todd Solondz, Whit Stillman, and Guo Xiaolu.
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Toronto 2011. Days One and Two
Dan SallittA remarkable debut and films by Bruno Dumont, Andrei Zvyagintsev, Joachim Trier and more from our first report from Toronto.
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The Art of Indirection: Catherine Breillat's "The Sleeping Beauty"
Dan SallittCatherine Breillat’s second entry in her trilogy based on fairy tales should be placed among her greatest works.
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Diary of a Lost Film: "Mint Julep"
Dan SallittBack in 1998, at the IFP Film Market, Thomas Ethan Harris, then the director of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, strongly recommended an unknown film called Aberdeen. I followed his advice
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Out of the Past 2010: Top 5 New Old Movies
Dan SallittWe at MUBI think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection
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Hideko Takamine
Dan Sallitt2010 began and ended with the deaths of great octogenarian film artists. Eric Rohmer died on January 11, a few months shy of his 90th birthday; and Hideko Takamine left us on December 28, at the age
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Eric Rohmer: Two Seasons
Dan SallittThe wonderful late summer Lincoln Center retrospective "The Sign of Rohmer" would require a book-length study to give a reasonable account of the many layers of Rohmer's filmmaking, and of the surprising