The Forgotten: Tarr Nation
David CairnsDoes the world need another version of “The Postman Always Rings Twice”? Béla Tarr thinks so.
June 2011
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NYAFF, Film Quarterly and Lots More
David HudsonRoundup of the New York Asian Film Festival, the new issue of Film Quarterly, and more.
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Otto Sander @ 70
David HudsonHappy 70th to "The Voice," a legendary stage presence in Germany best known to international audiences as Cassiel in Wings of Desire and Kapitänleutnant Philipp Thomsen in Das Boot. Tributes in
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Finding Zen in Poland: An Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski
Ben SachsThe Jerzy Skolimowski retrospective currently touring the United States is re-introducing American audiences to one of the most free-spirited directors the movies have ever produced. His first features
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Michael Bay and "Transformers: Dark of the Moon"
David HudsonUpdated through 6/30. "No, I don't think Bay can direct actors," concedes Bilge Ebiri in an entry he posted yesterday entitled "In Defense of Michael Bay (Sort Of)." What's more, "No, I don't think
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Bernard Herrmann @ 100
David HudsonThe composer best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock would have been 100 today. Jim Fusilli in the Wall Street Journal: "Bernard Herrmann may be best known for his memorable contributions to classic
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Raffaello Matarazzo, "People on Sunday" and More DVDs
David Hudson"It's easy to enjoy Raffaello Matarazzo's melodramas for the campy excess of their acting and story lines," blogs Dave Kehr, "but it's more productive to take them seriously, I think — to see how
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Elaine Stewart, 1929 - 2011
David Hudson"Elaine Stewart, 81, an actress who appeared in a string of films in the 1950s and after taking a break to start a family appeared on the 1970s TV game shows Gambit and High Rollers, died Monday," reports
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Senses of Cinema 59, Scope 20 and More
David HudsonSenses of Cinema editor Rolando Caputo introduces the new issue: "For some time now, Senses has wanted to publish an English language translation of Jean-Baptiste Thoret's seminal article, 'The Seventies
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Things That Came to My Mind While I Was Watching the Film #2
Marie-Pierre DuhamelIn contemporary cinema many camera pans look like postcards, but ones without the simplicity or light-hearted use of clichés of the past. (No European ever hated an American film for those old
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Watch "Scenes from the Suburbs" for Free
David HudsonWATCH SCENES FROM THE SUBURBS FOR FREE. 2 DAYS ONLY. Arcade Fire released their Grammy and Brit award-winning album The Suburbs last August, and now, nearly a year later, the Deluxe
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"Last Year at Marienbad" @ 50
David Hudson"So much critical ink has been shed over Last Year at Marienbad that one might wonder if the flood of commentary, once receded, would take the film along with it," writes Mark Polizzotti in an essay