László Szabó Remembers
Glenn KennyOn Friday, January 9, New York's Film Forum begins a two-week run of Jean-Luc Godard's legendary 1966 Made in USA, the director's final film starring his by-then ex-wife Anna Karina, an off-the-cuff
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Coffret Douglas Sirk, Partie 2"
Glenn KennyThe French do love their Douglas Sirk, it would seem. Here in America, acquiring a Region 1 Sirk library involves a bit of cherry-picking—get that Universal Rock Hudson collection so as to own Has Anybody
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The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: Glenn Kenny
Glenn KennyEach of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Les Stances a Sophie" (Mizrahi, 1971)
Glenn KennyThe presences of the exemplary Nouvelle Vague icons Bernadette Lafont and Bulle Ogier in the female lead roles notwithstanding, what cachet 1971's Les Stances a Sophie has accrued over the years is largely
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Twisted Nerve"
Glenn KennyWithout Peeping Tom and Psycho, where would we be today? With two great works of art—one, a notorious commercial failure that all but ended the career of its director, the other, a paradigm-changing
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Verboten!" (Fuller, 1959)
Glenn KennyLong before the term "guerilla filmmaking" entered the lexicon, writer/director Samuel Fuller was a chief proponent of cinema by any means necessary. From the valley of the B-pictures that the late
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Zasu Pitt's Hands: The Preternatural Delicacy of Borzage's "Lazybones"
Glenn KennyFor her comic shorts wit Thelma Todd, and most of her comedic screen work, the assets Zasu Pitts made the most use of were her wide eyes—laughs were guaranteed every time her orbs displayed extreme incredulity
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report, Caveat Emptor Edition: "Zabriskie Point" (Antonioni, 1970)
Glenn KennyOne of the most provocative, problematic, and eye-popping films in Antonioni's oeuvre, 1970's Zabriskie Point is a film that grows riper for reassessment the further it gets, temporally, from the counter
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Alice In The Cities" (Wenders, 1974)
Glenn KennyThe way we experience any given film changes over time, sometimes in ways maybe imperceptible to us. Other times, not. A lot depends sometimes on where the film was set and shot, and our own relation to
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Our Budd: Why Boetticher Is One Director Hardcore Western Fans And Cinephiles Can Agree On
Glenn KennyThe Hardcore Western Fan is an increasingly rare breed. And you shall know them by their high regard for Zane Gray. And their patronage of the Lone Pine Film Festival, held at the fantastically scenic
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"Chungking Express": The Blu-ray
Glenn KennyI have to admit: when I learned that among the first Blu-ray releases from Criterion would be their newly remastered version of Wong Kar-Wai's 1994 Chungking Express, I was slightly puzzled. Don't get
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Tuesday Morning Foreign (But Not Foreign Region) DVD Report: "An American in Paris" (MInnelli, 1951; Japanese Blu-ray)
Glenn KennyFirst things first: forgive these less-than-ideal screen captures. They were taken with a camera off of a monitor, and your reporter is still learning how to do such things properly. He will probably