Ozu, Dassin and Anthony Mann
David HudsonNew Yorkers are spoilt for choice this weekend, so much so that I'm siphoning those choices right off the roundup to follow. Besides the New York Asian Film Festival, here's what else is on. "There
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New York Asian Film Festival 2010
David Hudson"By now a programming institution in its eighth hyperactive annual episode, the New York Asian Film Festival is one of American film culture's most invaluable resources," writes
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Dogtooth"
Adrian CurryDogtooth, which may be the highest profile Greek release since the heyday of Theo Angelopoulos, opens in the US today after over a year on the festival circuit (it won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes
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Chabrol @ 80
David Hudson"Nowadays you never know what you are going to get from Claude Chabrol," wrote Derek Malcolm in the Guardian back in 1999. "But there was a short spell in the late 60s and early 70s when you knew
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Mann Power: The Director as Worker
Doug DibbernFilm Forum is presenting a 32-film Anthony Mann retrospective in New York from 25 June - July 15. *** Mann’s Westerns present “both beautiful landscapes and the explanation of this beauty
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The Forgotten: Bad Words
David Cairns"The day started quietly enough. Then I got out of bed. That was my first mistake." Mike Hodges' 1972 caper Pulp, his follow-up to the iconic Get Carter, also starring Michael Caine, screened at this
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"Restrepo" and "The Pat Tillman Story"; "Knight and Day"
David HudsonAnnouncing today that he was replacing General McChrystal with General Petraeus as the top commander of US forces in Afghanistan, President Obama insisted that this "is a change in personnel, but
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A Decade with Takashi Miike. Miike On Stage: "Demon Pond" (2005)
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky"I think that human beings are under some sort of spell. I want to be released from that."–Takashi Miike Since he is frequently places his camera at a distance from the characters—giving them a roomy
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Kiarostami @ 70, "Red Desert," "Night Train to Munich" and More DVDs
David Hudson"There was no better filmmaker working at the dawn of the twenty-first century than Abbas Kiarostami," argued Michael J Anderson back in March 2009. "Few other artists in the history of the medium
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "La morte ha fatto l'uovo" ("Death Laid An Egg") (Giulio Questi, 1968)
Glenn KennySometimes I wonder whether I'm prone to psychic flashes, or if I just have a selectively superb memory of whose powers I'm somehow unaware. For instance. The other night, I was sitting at home, doing
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Cinema Scope, Robin Wood, 70s Sci-Fi
David HudsonJean Luc-Godard's "late period has repeatedly demonstrated an interest in a critical cinema, an art that interrogates itself by giving form to its history as much as providing a history to its art form
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Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Ridley Scott's "The Duellists"
Ben SimingtonHoward Blake’s duel cues and Prokofiev pastiches for Tony Scott’s debut film.