Daily Viewing. Trailer for Sogo Ishii's "Ikiteru Mono Wa Inai No Ka"
David HudsonBased on the absurdist play by Shiro Maeda.
November 2011
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Daily Briefing. Sundance Predictions, Actors on Actors and More
David HudsonAlso: Thanksgiving movie scenes, top 50 films ever, vintage posters exhibition, Eraserhead set photos, DVDs and more.
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Forgotten Pre-Codes: "Her Man" (1930)
David CairnsBeginning a series looking at obscure pre-Code Hollywood films, made between the advent of sound and the strict enforcement of the Code.
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Michel Hazanavicius's "The Artist"
David HudsonA popular entertainment rekindles a debate over what’s been lost and perhaps regained since the advent of the talkies.
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Depression Lessons #4
Daniel RiccuitoA work-in-progress lexicon of depressed speak. Tell offs and witticisms as amorphously surreal as a Max Fleischer cartoon!
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Daily Briefing. "12 Angry Men," Jack Smith, Ruben Östlund
David HudsonAlso: A great roundup on Ivan Zulueta and a good long chat with Francis Ford Coppola.
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James Bobin and Jason Segel's "The Muppets"
David Hudson“May be one of the best films of the year” vs “This Muppets overreaches.”
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Martin Scorsese's "Hugo"
David Hudson“Like nearly all of Scorsese’s films, Hugo can be taken as personal allegory.”
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Notebook Reviews: David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method"
Daniel KasmanDavid Cronenberg’s film tackles Jung, Freud and psychosexual frontiers with a supreme, stately restraint.
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David Cronenberg's "A Dangerous Method"
David Hudson“A meticulous, electric costume drama of adultery and rivalry.”
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Daily Briefing. Before Sunrise/Sunset 3quel
David HudsonAlso: An audio interview with Kubrick (1966) and Wenders, Friedkin, Andersen and more discuss “How Los Angeles Invented the World.”
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The Camera Moves #6
David PhelpsThis is what democracy’s staged like.