The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. Bluebeard
David HudsonWe're going to get this year's New York Film Festival wrapped before Christmas. That's a promise. Today, on the occasion of Glenn Kenny's interview with Catherine Breillat: Bluebeard, which Glenn
October 2009
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Some Words About "Bluebeard" with Catherine Breillat
Glenn KennyThe old—make that ancient—Charles Perrault fairy tale of Bluebeard seems such a natural text for the ever-provocative French filmmaker Catherine Breillat to twist into knots that one wonders why the
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The Auteurs Daily: In Theaters, 10/30.
David HudsonThis weekend's Halloween-y releases, led by The House of the Devil and the likely box office winner, Michael Jackson's This Is It, are covered here; see below for a roundup of current festivals, events
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The Auteurs Daily: Fests and events, 10/30.
David Hudson"The American Film Institute's decision to transform its venerable fall film showcase (October 30 - November 7) from a paid event into a gratis one is an unprecedented gesture for a festival of this
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Curse of the Werewolf"
Adrian CurryThough this French poster for the 1961 Hammer horror The Curse of the Werewolf—with a lycanthropic Oliver Reed bursting through a window (and his shirt) against a garish pink sky—is terrific by itself
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Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—25 October 2009
Glenn KennyMaybe you see further than I can see, or maybe things just look differently. Maybe I'm nothing but a shadow on the wall. Maybe love's a tomb where you dance at night. Maybe sanctuary is an electric
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The Forgotten: Gorgeous Lifelike Color By Deluxe
David CairnsGus Van Sant's Psycho remake is always going to divide opinion, those who see it as a conceptual art statement being able to argue, quite reasonably, that its failure to do the things Hitchcock's original
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24 Hours of Avant-Garde: The Good Hours, Part III
Johnny LavantStill Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon) / Waterfront Follies (Ernie Gehr) A perfect double feature. Still Raining, Still Dreaming continues Solomon's explorations of Grand Theft Auto
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The Auteurs Daily: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
David HudsonHalloween is at least twice as fun when October 31 falls on a weekend as it does this year and, while I mentioned a few related goings on at the beginning of the month, no Halloween roundup comes close
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Viennale Dispatch 1: Elephants, jaguars, and other creatures
Neil YoungAbove: Swetlana Geier in Vadim Jendreyko's The Woman with the 5 Elephants. Mittwoch in Vienna, and mittfestival (if there is such a word) also for the city's—indeed the country's—biggest and most important
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24 Hours of Avant-Garde: The Good Hours, Part II
Johnny LavantTrypps / Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell) Russell calls his on-going Trypps project, available online at Vimeo, “psychedelic ethnography,” the first word signaling an internal trip (head
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pages from a cold island: THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN
Neil YoungSee I was born and I will die here And the seasons never change Scatter my ashes in the water The gods have smiled, all hail the new queen The south will rise againThe Auteurs, The