Pedro Costa, Midnight Eye, ND/NF
David Hudson"For a small group of diligent cinephiles, Criterion's Letters From Fontainhas: Three Films by Pedro Costa is one of the most anticipated DVD releases of the year, or the last several," writes Sam
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ND/NF 2010, 3/30; Orphans, Truffaut, "Star Wars"
David Hudson"Anchored by a revelatory performance by Alba Gaia Bellugi, The Evening Dress is a keen portrayal of a girl caught uncomfortably in that nervous, confusing, seemingly perilous crawlspace between
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ND/NF 2010: "Down Terrace"
David Hudson"Ben Wheatley's Down Terrace follows up a strong first half with a rather less productive second act," writes Andrew Schenker in Slant. "Charting two weeks in the lives of a father-and-son gangster
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Weekend. ND/NF 2010 and Other Events
David HudsonAlong with second screenings of a handful of its offerings, New Directors / New Films introduces four more titles this weekend: Radu Jude's The Happiest Girl in the World, Dima El-Horr's Every Day is
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"The Eclipse," "Bluebeard," "Chloe" and More
David HudsonBut first, New York's Film Forum is marking the 20th anniversary of Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up with a one-week run for a new 35mm print. Nicolas Rapold, L Magazine: "The story is fraud that taps
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ND/NF 2010: "The Oath," "Northless," "3 Backyards" and "Bilal's Stand"; More
David HudsonFriday's New Directors / New Films lineup: Laura Poitras's The Oath, Rigoberto Perezcano's Northless, Eric Mendelsohn's 3 Backyards and Sultan Sharrief's Bilal's Stand. "As she showed in My Country
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ND/NF 2010: "My Perestroika," "The Father of My Children," "Samson and Delilah"
David HudsonScreening Thursday as part of the New Directors / New Films series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA are Robin Hessman's My Perestroika, Mia Hansen-Løve's The Father of My Children
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ND/NF 2010: "Bill Cunningham New York"
David Hudson"Given his four-decade-plus career as a New York City chronicler of both everyday and high fashion, Bill Cunningham is astutely defined by Bill Cunningham New York as not simply a traditional photographer
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DVDs. "The African Queen," "Bigger Than Life," "Dillinger Is Dead"
David Hudson"For all of its enduring popularity The African Queen has not been available on American home video since the distant days of the laserdisc, apparently because the source material was in badly degraded
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Cinema Scope, Film Quarterly, Sight & Sound
David Hudson"I hate compiling lists, and I hate polls," announces Mark Peranson, introducing Issue 42 of Cinema Scope, the centerpiece of which is "The Decade in Review," a top ten (#1: Jia Zhangke's Platform
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"Greenberg," "Runaways," "Dragon Tattoo," "Vincere" and More
David Hudson"Sad, funny, and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's Greenberg is unafraid to project a downbeat worldview or feature an impossible protagonist," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. "I'd be hard
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Losey, Tarkovsky, Renoir, Karmakar and More
David Hudson"Revived for a week at Film Forum in an excellent restored print, The Prowler (1951) may be the creepiest of classic noirs," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. "Joseph Losey's hard-to-see third feature