NYFF 2010. Cristi Puiu's "Aurora"
David Hudson"For all its willingness to risk audience discomfort by immersing the viewer in the slow, agonizing buildup to the titular event, Cristi Puiu's justly lauded 2005 film The Death of Mr Lazarescu was
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NYFF 2010. Tour Guide
Johnny LavantAbbas Kiarostami’s masterful Certified Copy is based on a series of fluid formal shifts to match its conceit of two people playing at a fictional romance, an imitation, certified copy, of life: as the
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A Listen Back: Music Discovered at TIFF 2010
Daniel KasmanVincent Gallo’s Promises Written in Water and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
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NYFF 2010. Manoel de Oliveira's "The Strange Case of Angelica"
David HudsonSo here's a roundup that provides an opportunity to draw attention to two new issues of publications that, after all these decades, are still required reading. Among the articles posted online from
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Cinema Is Dead / Long Live Cinema: A Conversation with Federico Veiroj
Michael GuillenUruguayan filmmaker Federico Veiroj was born in Montevideo in 1976. In 2000 he obtained a Degree in Social Communication at the Catholic University in Montevideo, coursing one semester at VCU (Virginia
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NYFF 2010. Abbas Kiarostami's "Certified Copy"
David Hudson"An astonishingly multilayered portrait of a romantic relationship that doubles as a commentary on the value of reproductions — and, thus, the cinema itself — Certified Copy finds Abbas Kiarostami
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"Let Me In," "Freakonomics," "Leaving," More
David HudsonOctober 1. This can only mean, for movie-lovers at least, that the Halloween season has officially begun. Not Coming to a Theater Near You launches its seventh edition of 31 Days of Horror today
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda
Adrian CurryAs a sidebar to the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is currently running a retrospective of the great and underappreciated Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. As
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NYFF 2010. Radu Muntean's "Tuesday, After Christmas"
David Hudson"At first glance, Tuesday, After Christmas seems, in both form and content, only a modestly ambitious endeavor," begins Nick Schager in Slant. "Yet the singular attention with which it carries out
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TIFF 2010. Discovery, Visions, Wavelengths
David HudsonAnd with this roundup, we finally wrap the coverage of the coverage of this year's Toronto International Film Festival. "Artists have it tough everywhere, but maybe nowhere worse, suggests writer-director
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David Fincher and The Sad Facts
Daniel KasmanThe scripts that seem to attract David Fincher's recent attention, keeping Panic Room outside for now, are stories that tell facts. I don't mean true things, necessarily, though both Zodiac and his