Benning's "Remake" of Cassavetes's "Faces"
David HudsonThe premiere of Benning’s “unexpected venture into the world of ‘found footage’ filmmaking” will be on November 19 in Vienna.
October 2011
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Joe Swanberg: Ten Films in Two Years
David HudsonSilver Bullets is playing in New York, Autoerotic is available on demand and The Zone will premiere at the AFI FEST.
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Daily Briefing. Walter Hill and Stuart Cooper in the 70s
David HudsonWhile Hill’s The Warriors and The Driver screen in New York, Cooper’s other Silver Bear winner is out on Blu-ray.
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Tracking Shots at the Gates of Dawn
Doug DibbernBéla Tarr’s masterful “final film,” The Turin Horse, is now seeing a theatrical release in the US.
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Obsessions: Nine Notes Regarding the Music of Bernard Herrmann
Paul ClipsonA selection of the great composer’s most interesting music cues, in honor of his centennial.
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Daily Briefing. Synecdoche, Moscow
David HudsonAlso: Dennis Lim on An Injury to One, Adrian Martin on sadness and Philip French on Saul Bass.
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Herrmann's Perfume
Daniel KasmanIn honor of Bernard Herrmann’s centennial retrospective in New York, a note on two of his very best, and smallest, pieces of music.
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Daily Briefing. "Twin Peaks" @ 20
David HudsonAlso: The Passion of Joan of Arc accompanied by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Will Gregory (Goldfrapp).
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Viennale 2011. Survival Method
Daniel KasmanVienna honors the in-progress career of Hong Kong genre filmmaker and poet of desperation, Soi Cheang.
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Valeriy Todorovskiy's "Hipsters"
David Hudson“An instant kitsch classic, Hipsters layers schlock on top of painful history to often disorienting effect.”
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Preston Miller's "God's Land"
David HudsonA Texas-based Taiwanese cult awaits deliverance to the 18th dimension.
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"French Cinema Now"
Eleven films, most of them actually from France, screen in San Francisco through Wednesday.