The Auteurs Daily: Hippies and Yuppies
David HudsonI'm guessing many who follow a site like this one spent their morning coffee time today reading about Ted Kennedy. You may even have clicked through the interactive timeline at the
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The Auteurs Daily: Cineaste
David Hudson"The desire for a critical framework capable of both political acumen and esthetic incisiveness is at the heart of Cineaste's project." Introducing the Fall 2009 issue, the editors note that "Rahul
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The Auteurs Daily: Bundles
David HudsonSome days just don't bundle well. Like today. No overriding theme, hot button issue or newly released title leaps out. Everyone does seem to be still talking about Inglourious Basterds, but we've been
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The Auteurs Daily: Women
David HudsonThis week's New York Times Magazine is a special issue devoted to an argument: "Women's Rights are the Cause of Our Time." On Tuesday, Criterionreleases Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23
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The Auteurs Daily: Troubles in Theaters
David Hudson"As the bloody sectarian horror show of Northern Ireland in the 20th century has tapered off in the headlines, so has much of its currency in the movies," writes ST VanAirsdale in Movieline
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The Auteurs Daily: Baader, Goebbels and Mephistopheles
David HudsonMost American audiences likely think of Franka Potente's sweet but dumb boyfriend in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run (1998) when - or even if - they think of Moritz Bleibtreu at all. The German actor, though
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The Auteurs Daily: Three Husbands and One Headless Woman
David Hudson"Like my other films, The Headless Woman doesn't end in the moment that the lights go up, it ends one or two days later," Lucrecia Martel tells Chris Wisniewski in Reverse Shot. "In each of Martel
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The Auteurs Daily: Tarantino and His Inglourious Basterds
David HudsonWhether or not the survival of The Weinstein Company rides on the box office success of Inglourious Basterds (and to hear Harvey tell it to David Segal in the New York Times, the real make-or-break
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The Auteurs Daily: Reverse Shot: Claire Denis
David Hudson"Most of us at Reverse Shot are enamored of Claire Denis, so it was only a matter of time before we devoted a symposium to her, for we believe to be entranced with the cinema of Claire Denis
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The Auteurs Daily: Locarno and Other Fests and Events
David HudsonThe 62nd Locarno International Film Festival has wrapped tonight with its awards ceremony and the world premiere of Byambasuren Davaa's The Two Horses of Genghis Khan. But the news of the evening
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The Auteurs Daily: In Theaters, 14/8. Plus: Basterds, Sight & Sound
David HudsonBig day. The two best-reviewed films opening in theaters this weekend center on relationships between human beings and beings that aren't. Quentin Tarantino carries on making noise and there's a new
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The Auteurs Daily: Scorsese and Hitchcock
David Hudson"Without places like LACMA and other museums, archives, and festivals where people can still see a wide variety of films projected on screen with an audience, what do we lose? We lose what makes