Artforum, "A Film With Me In It"
David Hudson"To endure five twelve-hour days of a Jack Smith conference is to realize that Smith isn't exactly the kind of figure you organize a conference for," writes David Velasco, reporting on LIVE FILM! JACK
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Senses of Cinema, "The White Ribbon," DVDs
David HudsonIt's a busy Wednesday between Christmas and New Year's, with film journals posting new issues, a handful of films opening in theaters and another notable handful just out on DVD. And all along, of
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Lists and Awards #7: Salon, Film Comment, SFBG, L and More
David HudsonPreviously: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Plus: Launched on Monday and running for a while, The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers Poll. Part 2's up, too. So's Part 3. "The notion that there's an acceptable critical
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"Sherlock Holmes," "It's Complicated," "Parnassus" and Chaplin
David HudsonThe movies' gift to you this Christmas Day: Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin as well as Heath Ledger's final performance, with backup from Johnny Depp, Colin
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"Police, Adjective," New Issues and More
David HudsonIn the new Voice, J Hoberman reviews the film he's placed in the #3 slot on his top ten of 2009 list (and for more on the Voice poll and many, many other lists and awards, see the updated tracker
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Jacques Tati, Coast to Coast
David Hudson"The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907–1982) features newly struck, gloriously restored 35mm prints of
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Lists and Awards #6: NYT, Guardian and More
David HudsonPrevious roundups of year-end and decade-end lists and awards: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. "This was the year that the art world repeatedly checked its pulse to see if it was still alive. And guess what? It
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"Avatar," "Nine," "Young Victoria" and Holiday Revivals
David Hudson"With Avatar James Cameron has turned one man's dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life - our moviegoing life included - as we know it," declares Manohla Dargis in the New
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Jennifer Jones, 1919 - 2009
David Hudson"Jennifer Jones, 90, an actress who won an Academy Award for playing a saint in The Song of Bernadette and became a popular sinner in Hollywood melodramas including Duel in the Sun and Love is a Many
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"Ricky," "The 400 Blows," "Panic," "Crazy Heart"
David Hudson"Ricky, the latest film by François Ozon to receive release in the United States, is so chock full of tonal and generic shifts that it makes for a handy little guide to its French director's scattershot
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Berlinale, "Lola," Omer Fast, "Sherlock Holmes"
David HudsonA busier Tuesday than usual. Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer are among the first round of seven titles lined up for the Competition at the Berlin International
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Lists and Awards #5. Critics Circles and More
David HudsonThe fourth roundup of year-end and decade-end lists and awards was updated through Sunday morning (previously: 1, 2, 3). Now, a new week begins, with various critics groups circling in on their award