Daily Briefing. Cannes Jury, Czech New Wave, More
David HudsonAlso: Revisiting Claire Denis’s Beau Travail, Robert M Young’s Alambrista! and more.
Claire Denis
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Daily Briefing. Denis, Guerín, Straub @ Exit Art; New Cinema Lucida
David HudsonAlso: Girish Shambu on the video essay, Brian Darr on Méliès, Kurt Jensen on Mamoulian and more.
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"A Screaming Man," DVDs, More
David Hudson"African cinema is generally woefully overlooked by the West, and the filmmaking being done in Republic of Chad has been particularly invisible," begins Farihah Zaman in Reverse Shot. "The oversight
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Lists 2010. International Grab Bag
David HudsonUnknown Pleasures, a festival of American independent film, opens at the Babylon in Berlin tomorrow with Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro and runs through January 16. With special programs focusing on
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Images of the Day. Records of Material Objects in Cinema #6: A Guide to the Things of "White Material"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyAt its essence, White Material is an exploded chamber drama. A Haneke-style family unit (complete with a brutally bored son) holed up mentally, emotionally, economically and geographically encounters
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Movie Poster of the Week: "White Material"
Adrian CurryClaire Denis has not always been well served by her poster artists. Oddly, for a director who has made some of the most beautiful, sensual films of the past twenty years, the posters for her films rarely
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Denis, Godard, McBride, Eustache, Lockhart, Reichardt, More
David HudsonEvery now and then, Isabelle Huppert is suddenly everywhere and here we are again. She's on the cover of the new Film Comment and she's in the news: Just yesterday, the Playlist's Christopher Bell
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Cineaste, N1FR, frieze
David HudsonCineaste grapples with politics even more than usual in its Fall 2010 issue, n+1's new online film review is unlike any other — in a good way — and frieze's selection for its "Life in Film" column
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Godard and Karina, Assayas and Denis, More Festivals, More DVDs
David HudsonCity of Lights, City of Angels, Los Angeles' festival of new French films, is on through the weekend and Anna Karina will be there on Friday for a screening of a new, digitally restored edition
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Video Sundays: The Rhythm of the Night
Daniel KasmanDancing defines the night: late night exhaustion, exultation, revere. Stay aloof or dive in as far as one can go. Corona-Denis-Lavant + Björk-Corona-Jimmy Cliff-Pialat-Depardieu-Pailhas (For Le
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NYFF 09: Title for Tattle
Johnny LavantAbove: Todd Solondz's new film, Life in Wartime. White Material (Claire Denis, France) As with a lot of still-young, experimental filmmakers, Claire Denis’ strengths are her weaknesses: characters
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Back to Africa: An Interview with Claire Denis
Daniel KasmanA discussion with the French director on her Isabelle Hupper-starring White Material.