Daily Viewing. Bee vs Moth's Trailer for Lubitsch's "Oyster Princess"
David HudsonThe instrumental art rock band’s new score will premiere live at SXSW.
February 2012
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Daily Briefing. New Cineaste and More Fine Reading
David HudsonAlso: Top animators sign on for an adaptation of Gibran’s The Prophet and the doc Liv and Ingmar is set for the fall.
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The Forgotten: Pazuzu Dans Le Metro
David CairnsYves Montand plays the devil in a 1950s-made, 1920s-set version of Faust with beautiful sets worth going to hell for.
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Tumbleweed Tales #2
Daniel KasmanA shot in the dark: Anne Baxter, a revolver, the night, in William Wellman’s Yellow Sky (1948).
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Daily Briefing. Frances Farmer, Sylvie Testud, Fassbinder and Fassbender
David HudsonAlso: David Phelps’s Secret History of America. Remembering Warhol. A pirate’s justification. And more.
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Barney Rosset, 1922 - 2012
David HudsonPerhaps more than any other publisher, Rosset changed the American cultural landscape of the latter half of the 20th century.
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Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Ken Russell's "Altered States"
Ben SimingtonJohn Corigliano’s soundtrack for a world closed off to love.
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Daily Briefing. ECM Remembers Angelopoulos, Greenaway in Venice, More
David HudsonAlso: Protecting Germany’s nitrate archives from the Explosives Act. The films that changed directors’ lives. And more.
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Margarethe von Trotta @ 70
David HudsonShe’s been called “narrative cinema’s foremost feminist filmmaker,” but of course, she’s also simply a great director.
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The Aesthetics of Garbage, Part 1
Celluloid Liberation FrontCoverage from Rotterdam’s retrospective The Mouth of Garbage, on Brazil’s “successful avant-garde” of popular cinema.
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Daily Briefing. Slow Criticism 2012
David HudsonAlso: Bordwell on John le Carré, Denby on the great actors of the silent era, profiles of Bardot, Sophia Loren, and more.
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“I am a patriot of the 20s”: An Interview with Alexander Kluge
Candace WirtA discussion with one of the leading founders of New German Cinema, upon the release of his films on DVD and his 80th birthday.