Vertov @ MoMA
David HudsonUpdated through 4/20. MoMA's Dziga Vertov retrospective opens today with the US premiere of the newly restored, original full-frame version of Man with a Movie Camera (1929) with live musical accompaniment
April 2011
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Image of the day. Unideal Couples
Daniel KasmanIn honor of Hideko Takamine's appearance in Film Forum's 5 Japanese Divas retrospective, a frowny-melancholy-dour revision of our nascent Ideal Couples image series. Yukiko Koda (Takamine
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Cannes 2011. Lineup
David HudsonUpdated through 5/9. Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux announced that, out of 1715 submissions, 49 features from 33 countries have been selected in total for this year's Cannes Film Festival
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Julie Christie @ 70
David HudsonTo Christina Tilmann's best wishes in Der Tagesspiegel, we'll add ours.From Stephanie Zacharek's appreciation in Salon in 2001: "If every great actor embodies an essential paradox, Christie's is that
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The Forgotten: The Way the Future Was
David Cairns"Meretricious agents of the Kaiser were stationed at such places as Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner. In this black book of sin details were given of the unnatural
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"A Screaming Man," DVDs, More
David Hudson"African cinema is generally woefully overlooked by the West, and the filmmaking being done in Republic of Chad has been particularly invisible," begins Farihah Zaman in Reverse Shot. "The oversight
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Anticipating Cannes 2011.
David HudsonWhile we anxiously await tomorrow morning's announcement of the official lineup for the 64th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, running May 11 through 22, here's a quick roundup of what we know so
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Free Radicals: Serge Bozon and the New French Cinema
David HudsonBack in February, Dmitry Martov and Larysa Smirnova spoke with Serge Bozon and Pascale Bodet about, among many other things, Beaubourg: la dernière major!, a series of presentations they staged
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The Civil War @ 150
David Hudson"When South Carolina artillerymen opened fire on a small band of federal troops garrisoned in Ft Sumter exactly 150 years ago," writes Scott Collins in the Los Angeles Times, "the American Civil
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Libertas 2011
The 7th Libertas Film Festival is off and running through Sunday in the beautiful old Croatian town of Dubrovnik and we're teaming up with the festival to present a selection of new Croatian short films
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City of Lights, City of Angels 2011
The 15th City of Lights, City of Angels, a festival with both a handy acronym, COL•COA, and a winning subtitle, "A Week of French Film Premieres in Hollywood," has opened with Philippe Le Guay's
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Image of the day. Audrey Hepburn
Daniel KasmanPhotograph by Cecil Beaton. (Via.)