Echoes #9
Dave McDougallA man and a woman share a tender embrace, in two images nearly 80 years apart from films by F. W. Murnau and Anne-Marie Miéville.
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History Lessons (Pt. 2): Notes on Steven Soderbergh's "Che"
Dave McDougallA TWO-PART SERIES ON STEVEN SODERBERGH'S CHE. *** CHE: PART TWO (GUERRILLA) Part Two of Che begins with images of Bolivian miners. These are not portraits of revolutionaries, but of the need for revolution
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History Lessons (Pt. 1): Notes on Steven Soderbergh's "Che"
Dave McDougallA TWO-PART SERIES ON STEVEN SODERBERGH'S CHE. *** CHE: PART ONE (THE ARGENTINE) What is a political image? How does it work, and what are the elements that make it work? This is a difficult enough question
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Image of the Day. Records of Material Objects in the Cinema #5
Dave McDougallA publicity still of Anna Baldaccini's breasts, from Jean-Luc Godard's Sauve qui peut (la vie) [Every Man for Himself], a film about capitalism, prostitution, objects, commerce, and making movies. Sauve
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Image of the Day. Records of Material Objects in the Cinema #2
Dave McDougallA winter melon, from Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Sicilia! (1999); cinematography by William Lubtchansky, one of the great artists of cinema, who passed away this week at age 73.
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“Those who didn't understand will never understand”: Whit Stillman’s "The Last Days of Disco"
Dave McDougall"We're getting older. We've lived through a period that's ended. It's like dying a little bit." - Des We came to the city and we danced. There were late nights and stylish parties and too-eager girls
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"It sounded so different than the way it came out": Andrew Bujalski's "Beeswax"
Dave McDougall"Part of the ways we grow up is we sort of fail at being adults" - Zoe Kazan, on her role as Ivy in Bradley Rust Gray's 2009 film The Exploding Girl. "That sounded horrible... it came out totally wrong
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A Cinema Without Organs: A Roundtable on Alejandro Adams' "Canary"
Dave McDougallFour critics discuss a seminal work of recent American independent filmmaking.
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The Mythopoesis of Autobiography: Philippe Garrel's "Emergency Kisses" and "I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar"
Dave McDougall"I had a lover,I don't think I'll risk anotherThese days, these days.And if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songIt's just that I've been losingso long." - Nico, "These Days
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The World of Wiseman: "High School" (1968)
Dave McDougallThe first in a continuing series on the films of Frederick Wiseman. "On the night of December 6th, police shot 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in cold blood in the Eksarhia district of Athens
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The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: Dave McDougall
Dave McDougallEach 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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Now in theaters: "Nights and Weekends" (Gerwig/Swanberg, 2008)
Dave McDougallAbove: Nights and Weekends' stars and filmmakers, Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig. Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig's new film, Nights and Weekends, might be the most purely 'anthropological' of all the