October 2008

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  13 Oct 08

  Lumière and Company, 1/40: David Lynch

  Daniel Kasman

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  10 Oct 08

  Now in theaters: "Nights and Weekends" (Gerwig/Swanberg, 2008)

  Dave McDougall

  Above: 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

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  10 Oct 08

  NYFF08: Joan and Jesus Stories/Fuck The Police ("Changeling," "Hunger," & "The Wrestler")

  David Phelps

  After the (relative) moral relativism of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood’s Changeling is the Star Wars of the woman’s weepie: stark sides of good and evil and a sweet, innocent piece of play

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  09 Oct 08

  Nagisa Oshima in New York: "The Sun's Burial" (1960)

  Daniel Kasman

  Nagisa Oshima had something in The Sun’s Burial (1960); it wasn’t just one of the most throat-gripping titles in English, and it wasn’t even the Shochiku-budget enabled, comic book energy zeitgeist of

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  08 Oct 08

  NYFF08: "Night and Day"

  Glenn Kenny

  Until now, my reactions to the work of Korean director Hong Sang-soo have vacillated between frustration and guarded enthusiasm, so I'm happy to report that his latest, Night and Day got me but good. The

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  08 Oct 08

  pages from a cold island: HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOOTBOY

  Neil Young

  Above: Shane Meadow's 2004 film, Dead Man's Shoes. My woodwork teacher from school didn't teach me very much in the way of woodwork, but there's one aspect of his lessons which has stayed with me all

  • pages from a cold island
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  08 Oct 08

  Stumbling through "The Big Sleep"

  Daniel Kasman

  Pentagonal rooms with no entrances or exits, just passways to one another—and often leading back again—are the ominous spaces through which Humphrey Bogart passes in The Big Sleep (Howard

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  07 Oct 08

  Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: Finding Ford

  Glenn Kenny

  Vester Pegg and Molly Malone in Bucking Broadway, John Ford, 1917In a recent issue of Sight and Sound, the critic Michael Atkinson grumbled "I can hardly understand how any cinephile can still hold the

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  07 Oct 08

  Now on DVD: "Le Doulos" (Melville, France, 1962), brutal and deliberate

  Ryland Walker Knight

  Despite his commitment to forward-actuated narratives and his characters’ ability to move—and fast; they often run—through the world, Jean-Pierre Melville makes meaty films, a cinema of heft. Time hangs

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  06 Oct 08

  NYFF08: "Che" (Soderbergh, USA)

  Daniel Kasman

  Benicio Del Toro might have been just right for the lead in Terence Malick’s long-gestating Che Guevara project. It’s all in the eyes: Del Toro, like all of Malick’s protagonists, doesn’t see what is

  • Steven Soderbergh /
  • Samuel Fuller /
  • Otto Preminger
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  03 Oct 08

  NYFF08: Experimenting with boredom ("Bullet in the Head")

  Daniel Kasman

  Above: If you think this looks dull, just wait until you hear how it sounds. It may seem a bit hackneyed to start a review with a question, but this film undoubtedly requires it: can there be movies

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  02 Oct 08

  Some notes on the "Human Element" in film

  Glenn Kenny

  Above: From Renoir's Toni.These notes could be said to constitute a continuation of the post entitled "Caring versus Not Caring" at http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/ Last spring, I had the privilege