Viennale 2011. Homesick
Daniel KasmanTwo odes to American landscapes: Akerman’s New York in News from Home, Lee Anne Schmitt’s vanished frontier in California Company Town.
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Viennale 2011. Choreography
Daniel KasmanMore rewards at Vienna’s essential Akerman retrospective: a “pitch” for a musical, a late Demy, and a surprising recent drama.
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Viennale 2011. Space Re-Figured
Daniel KasmanOur first dispatch from the Vienna Film Festival: a cinematic plane ride, single-take feature, and two masterpieces from the Akerman retro.
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Notebook Reviews: Victor Trivas' "Niemandsland" ("No Man's Land")
Daniel KasmanAt New York’s MoMA, Victor Trivas’ incredible 1931 early Talkie war film essay and dramatic allegory gets a restoration and screening.
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Images of the Day. Ozu in America
Daniel KasmanFinding Ozu in a 1954 Western shot by the great John Alton.
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Video of the day. John Kricfalusi's Couch Gag for "The Simpsons"
Daniel KasmanAfter Banksy, The Simpsons have commissioned a “couch gag” from an even more radical artist.
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The Camera Moves #2
Daniel KasmanTwo jaw-dropping scenes from director Vincente Minnelli: the ball in Madam Bovary and the drunken car ride in Two Weeks in Another Town.
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NYFF 2011. The Secrets of Sidebars: Tomotaka Tasaka's "Mud and Soldiers"
Daniel KasmanA remarkable discovery in the NYFF’s Nikkatsu retrospective: a 1939 war film shot in China.
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NYFF 2011. The Shawl from Bela Tarr's "The Turin Horse"
Daniel KasmanA telling, accidental detail changes the feel of one of the Hungarian master’s virtuoso camera moves in his newest film.
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Image of the day. Kirk Douglas Frozen in Debauchery
Daniel KasmanA publicity still of Kirk Douglas from the orgy / party sequence in Vincente Minnelli’s mangled masterpiece, Two Weeks in Another Town.
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Notebook Reviews: Sergei Loznitsa's "My Joy"
Daniel KasmanOne of Cannes 2010’s finest competition entries sees a U.S. release.
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NYFF 2011. Three Directors, Three Films, One Town and One Criminal: "Dreileben"
Daniel KasmanA three film project by three German directors finds three different stories in one town being menaced by an escaped criminal.