Video: Paul Schrader's "New Blue" (1995)
Paul SchraderDirected by Paul Schrader. One of a series of short films inspired by paintings: the director and his relationship with a painter.
December 2009
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James Whale, Miklós Jancsó, So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray
David Hudson"A special case needs to be made for James Whale," argues Cullen Gallagher in the L Magazine. "Though not exactly forgotten - a pair of genre-defining horror masterpieces (Frankenstein and The Invisible
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The Forgotten: Head Shots
David CairnsA strange, ringing tinnitus sound in the subway. A man, his shirt and face spattered profusely with blood, shambles in catatonic stupor up the stairs. Another man, blood gouting from a wound in his brow
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2010: Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin. Also: "Film Ist.," DVDs
David HudsonEven as critics cobble together their year-end and decade-end lists, 2010 is already beginning to take shape. The Sundance Film Festival (January 21 through 31) has unveiled its lineups for the four
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Nervous from the Service
Manny FarberFor an extremely sensitive and poignant study of life like your own, carrying constantly threatening overtones during this early stage of postwar readjustment, it would be worth your while to see
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Lists and Awards: Gothams, IDA, Spirits
David HudsonThis year's double-round of list-making - best of the year, best of the decade - is already well underway (see "Let the Wild Listings Start!" and "Lists: Best of the Decade, Part 2," updated through
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Herostratus" (Don Levy, 1967)
Glenn KennyNothing happens fast in Herostratus, Don Levy's two-hour-and-twenty-three minute feature film, the only feature he made. Go look at the descriptions of it on the web, check out the plot descriptions
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The First Ten Minutes of "Ali"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyEverything happens in the first ten minutes of Ali. All of cinema, as it now stands, could be represented in that medley—its editing is the history of editing, its images an overview of cinematography