"Tucker & Dale vs Evil," "Surrogate Valentine," More
David HudsonAlso: Mammuth, What’s Your Number?, Dream House and Buraku.
September 2011
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Notebook Reviews: Sergei Loznitsa's "My Joy"
Daniel KasmanOne of Cannes 2010’s finest competition entries sees a U.S. release.
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"Benda Bilili!" "Sarah Palin: You Betcha!" And More Docs!
David HudsonA street band from Kinshasa leads this week’s modest batch of documentaries.
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Angie Dickinson @ 80
David HudsonHappy 80th, Ms Dickinson.
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NYFF 2011. Lars von Trier's "Melancholia"
David Hudson“Subtle, charming, sympathetic.” “Ridiculous, often quite boring.” “Stupendous, imaginative, weird, outlandish.” “Artistic elephantiasis.”
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the 49th New York Film Festival
Adrian CurryA look at the posters for the films in the main slate of this year’s New York Film Festival.
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Jeff Nichols's "Take Shelter"
David HudsonMost agree that “Nichols is fast becoming one of the deftest storytellers in American independent cinema.”
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Daily Briefing. Charlie Kaufman's "Frank or Francis": "It's about online film criticism"
David HudsonAlso: New projects from Alice Winocour, Noémie Lvovsky, Yasuo Furuhata and Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. VIFF @ 30 and NYFF @ 49. And more.
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NYFF 2011. Three Directors, Three Films, One Town and One Criminal: "Dreileben"
Daniel KasmanA three film project by three German directors finds three different stories in one town being menaced by an escaped criminal.
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Kenneth Lonergan's "Margaret"
David Hudson“What a glorious mess!” Some have fallen in love. Others, not so much: “Messy and disorganized and fundamentally bad.”
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Sergei Loznitsa's "My Joy"
David HudsonName-checked in reviews of this “widescreen nightmare of ill will and indefinite national gridlock”: Cormac McCarthy and Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Peter Bogdanovich's "The Last Picture Show"
David HudsonAlt Screen notes that Film Forum’s week-long revival presents a fine opportunity to remember producer and set designer Polly Platt.