The Noteworthy: Indie Spirit, "The Irishman", The Godard Paradox
Adam CookIndependent Spirit Awards nominations, Daney on Godard, Jack Nicholson & Antonioni, a trio of Film Comment pieces, and more.
Alex Ross Perry
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Daily Briefing. Losses and Revivals
David HudsonAmir Muhammad publishes a novel by P Ramlee, Alex Ross Perry talks about the loss video stores and Harry Crews has passed away.
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AFI FEST 2011
David HudsonThis year’s edition features the premieres of Eastwood’s J. Edgar and Soderbergh’s Haywire.
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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope and Film Quarterly, Dorsky and Kaufman
David HudsonNew issues, an interview with Nathaniel Dorsky that turned into “a genuine exploration” and the latest on Charlie Kaufman’s next projects.
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The Golden Donkey Locarno 2011
The Ferroni BrigadeOur unique awards for this year’s Locarno: prizes for films by Straub, Tetsuya, Perry and one by none other than Vincente Minnelli.
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Slang Rap Democracy
Daniel KasmanCinema that talks hip: Raoul Walsh’s Me and My Gal (1932) and Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel (2011).
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The Lower Depths: Alex Ross Perry and "The Color Wheel"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe Color Wheel is 83 minutes long. About 9 minutes and 40 seconds of those 83 minutes (i.e. roughly 1/9th) are taken up by a single shot, handheld, in which the cameraman (Sean Price Williams) only
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BAMcinemaFEST 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 6/26. "The golden age of New York moviegoing is now," argues AO Scott in the New York Times. "Two events in the coming days offer confirmation of this hunch." Tonight "in Brooklyn the
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"Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench," Events, More
David Hudson"No sort of motion picture is more stylized, utopian, or fun to theorize than the musical," writes the Voice's J Hoberman. "As an exercise in orchestrated time, each and every movie aspires to the state
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CUFF 09: "Impolex" (Perry, USA)
Ignatiy VishnevetskySmall festivals are as full of surprises as big ones are full of letdowns. Impolex screened only once at the Chicago Underground Film Festivalthis year. It's a shoddy war picture or maybe the