Film Comment Selects 2012
David Hudson“We sort of do the lineup by the seat of our pants.”
Chantal Akerman
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Daily Briefing. Otto is the One + Vertov, Hong, More
David HudsonAlso: Another big round of projects in the works announced in Berlin.
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First Look 2012. Supplementary Roundup
David HudsonOverviews of the Museum of the Moving Image series: 13 features and seven shorts, nearly all of them New York premieres.
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Notebook 4th Writers Poll: The Ferroni Brigade's Double Trouble Madness '11
The Ferroni BrigadeThe Ferronis take our end of the year double feature extravaganza to delirious heights.
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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope 49
David HudsonFeaturing an interview with Ai Weiwei and more. Also: The Gold Rush and Last Year at Marienbad in New York.
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Lineup for Moving Image's Inaugural "First Look"
David HudsonThe Museum of the Moving Image opens 2012 with a series of New York premieres: Akerman, Garrel, Raya Martin and more.
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Viennale 2011. Homesick
Daniel KasmanTwo odes to American landscapes: Akerman’s New York in News from Home, Lee Anne Schmitt’s vanished frontier in California Company Town.
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Viennale 2011. Choreography
Daniel KasmanMore rewards at Vienna’s essential Akerman retrospective: a “pitch” for a musical, a late Demy, and a surprising recent drama.
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Viennale 2011. Space Re-Figured
Daniel KasmanOur first dispatch from the Vienna Film Festival: a cinematic plane ride, single-take feature, and two masterpieces from the Akerman retro.
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Madwomen (and Men) in the Jungle: A Conversation with Chantal Akerman
Darren HughesAkerman’s Joseph Conrad adaptation sees its US release.
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Toronto 2011. Days Seven and Eight
Dan SallittFilms by big names (the Dardennes, Terence Davies, Chantal Akerman) and an impressive debut by Santiago Mitre.
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Venice and Toronto 2011. Chantal Akerman's "Almayer's Folly"
David HudsonThe trades are not impressed, but Akerman’s first narrative feature in seven years does have its champions.