The Auteurs Daily: Issues
David Hudson"The restoration of this hefty, propulsive, and preposterous 1928 film comes with an irresistible tag of relevance. The story - 'inspired' by Emile Zola's 1891 novel of the same name - concerns
September 2009
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The Auteurs Daily: Telluride and NYFF. Red Riding
David HudsonBack in March, the UK's Channel 4 broadcast a three-part series based on four books by David Peace known as the Red Riding Quartet. In May, IFC Films picked up the US rights to
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice and Toronto. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
David Hudson"Following so hot on the heels of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans that the latter's shoe leather will be scuffed," begins Leslie Felperin in Variety, "Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son
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24h Berlin
David HudsonIt's on - and it's free.
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The Auteurs Daily: In Theaters, 4/9.
David Hudson"A rallying cry for the put-upon boss, Mike Judge's Extract makes for a perverse double feature with Office Space (1999), Judge's cult favorite about cubicle life." Elbert Ventura in Reverse Shot
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice, Telluride and Toronto. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
David Hudson"Did you hear the one about the German maverick who signed on to remake a notorious existential American policier and turned it into a stuffy, if pleasingly ridiculous b-picture?" asks Time
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Husbands"
Adrian CurryThe recent, long-awaited DVD release of John Cassavetes’ Husbands (1970) is more than enough of an excuse to feature this illustrated French grande as Movie Poster of the Week. I like this poster a lot
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Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—4 September 2009
Glenn KennyOn The Plurality Of Worlds: To those not of it, what is referred to as the "film blogosphere" is a relatively monolithic and one-dimensional virtual space populated by feisty nerdy fanboys on the one
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice, Telluride, Toronto and NYFF. Life During Wartime
David Hudson"In revisiting his darkly comic 1998 ensembler Happiness, Todd Solondz may have made his best film with Life During Wartime," proposes Todd McCarthyin Variety. "The distinctive, boundary-pushing
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The Auteurs Daily: Telluride Lineup
David HudsonThe Telluride Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running through Labor Day, has unveiled the lineup for this year's 36th edition. Here's what we know so far about each of the films screening
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24h Berlin
David HudsonOn September 5, 2008, 400 people, including directors Romuald Karmakar, Volker Koepp, Rosa von Praunheim and Andres Veiel, in 80 teams fanned out all over Berlin to capture 24 hours in the life of
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice, Telluride and Toronto. The Road
David HudsonThe Road, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been knocked around the release schedule for some time now, but David Jenkins (Time