Eastwood @ 80
David HudsonClint Eastwood was born on May 31, 1930. "Being underestimated is, for some people, a misfortune. For Eastwood, it became a weapon." David Denby in a New Yorker profile in March: Eastwood has
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A Decade with Takashi Miike. A Superhero is a Superhero: "Zebraman" (2004)
Ben SachsZebraman is a love letter to genre entertainment that's not at all generic in its sentiment. It's a superhero movie, as the title suggests, but it has to grow into one: It starts out, more or less
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Now in Theaters: "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (Mike Newell, USA)
Ignatiy VishnevetskyI wanted to see Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time for three reasons: (1) it's produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, whose strong financial instincts tend to eclipse the cartoon tomfoolery, phantasmagoric
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Dennis Hopper, 1936 - 2010
David Hudson"Dennis Hopper, the maverick director and costar of the landmark 1969 counterculture film classic Easy Rider whose drug- and alcohol-fueled reputation as a Hollywood bad boy preceded his return to
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Cineaste. Summer 2010
David HudsonIntroducing the Summer 2010 issue of Cineaste, the editors consider "the impact of the digital era on film culture" and argue that "what's important is not necessarily to privilege one mode of
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Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Alternate Endings to Michael Mann's "Heat"
Ben SimingtonElliot Goldenthal’s commercially unavailable “End Titles” music to Michael Mann’s Heat.
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"The Father of My Children," Picasso, Hypatia and More
David Hudson"I hesitate to proclaim Mia Hansen-Løve's Le père de mes enfants (The Father of My Children) the best film of the year so far, or Hansen-Løve as the strongest French director to emerge in the last
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Movie Poster of the Week: "La religieuse"
Adrian CurryLet’s face it: few things look better than Anna Karina in a movie poster. Even Anna Karina in a wimple. We're all familiar with Karina’s most iconic Godard posters—balancing Belmondo and Brialy on her
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"Breathless" @ 50
David Hudson"It wasn't until I sat down and re-watched Breathless — in a beautifully restored new 35mm print — that I remembered that its sleek surface charms, while hardly insubstantial, don't really account
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Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—28 May 2010
Glenn KennyFilm Against Itself: William Wellman's 1933 Wild Boys of the Road goes to great pains, in its opening quarter, to establish that its titular hellions are in fact conventionally good kids at heart. They
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Now in Theaters: "Survival of the Dead" (George A. Romero, Canada)
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe paradox of George Romero is that he is equally old-fashioned and forward-thinking; keen on the modern, thinking of it in classical terms. "Modern" in this case is society as it exists, and "classical
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La dolce Mia: A Conversation with the Director of "The Father of My Children"
Daniel KasmanAbove: Mia Hansen-Løve, director of The Father of My Children. Photo by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. When jaded cinephiles and old harrumphs say they don’t make them like they used