Everything is Permeable
Ignatiy VishnevetskyTricks are Raúl Ruiz’s specialty, and nowhere is this more apparent than his newly released film, Mysteries of Lisbon.
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Collaborators, War Stories and Roads Not Taken: An Interview with Monte Hellman
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe cult director of Two-Lane Blacktop returns with his first feature in twenty years.
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The Lower Depths: Alex Ross Perry and "The Color Wheel"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe Color Wheel is 83 minutes long. About 9 minutes and 40 seconds of those 83 minutes (i.e. roughly 1/9th) are taken up by a single shot, handheld, in which the cameraman (Sean Price Williams) only
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In the Margin: Cryptozoology and Crypto-Satire
Ignatiy VishnevetskyIn the Margin is a column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to make sense of the what's going on in cinema lately. *** The best running gag in The Troll Hunter—a pretty good adventure movie
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Notebook Review. Entanglement Blues: Monte Hellman's "Road to Nowhere"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyMonte Hellman's best films begin by pretending to tell a story. Take your pick: Ride in the Whirlwind, Two-Lane Blacktop, Cockfighter, Iguana—every of them establishes a good punchy
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Comment on "No Comment"
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky"No Comment," reads the final title card of Film Socialisme. Despite being on screen for only a few seconds, it's become—in the year or so since Film Socialisme played at Cannes—the
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"The Tree of Life": A Malickiad
Ignatiy VishnevetskyIn The Tree of Life, we know that Brad Pitt’s unnamed, self-styled paterfamilias is a light smoker not because it’s ever said or observed, but because he is specifically never shown smoking
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In the Margin: All Solos
Ignatiy VishnevetskyIn the Margin is a new column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to make sense of the what's going on with cinema this week. *** It used to be that if you wanted to learn about pacing and construction
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In the Margin: Two Marriages, Dutch Angles, etc.
Ignatiy VishnevetskyIn the Margin is a new column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to make sense of the what's going on with cinema this week. *** Released the same day, two plotty marriage melodramas set in the
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Neither Point A nor Point B: Allan Sekula & Noël Burch's "The Forgotten Space"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThis “secretly hopeful film on an obviously dispiriting subject” is now getting a theatrical run in New York.
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Image of the Day. Narusean Knuckle-gnashing
Ignatiy VishnevetskyMichiyo Kogure in a moment of typically-Narusean anxiety in Even Parting is Enjoyable (1947).
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Cabinetry
Ignatiy VishnevetskySo, the Liam Neeson Euro-Thriller, a grim genre with precisely two entries, where city specifics and vague motivations co-mingle amidst shock-cut car chases, where an Irishman represents American know