Daily Briefing. "Bad Fever" and a New Mediascape
David HudsonAlso: Artificial Paradises, Turn Me On, Dammit!, Philip Kaufman, Cindy Sherman and more.
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"Uncle Boonmee," "The Cable Guy," Events, DVDs, More
David Hudson"There are few contemporary filmmakers who grasp narrative as an expressive instrument in itself, and even among them Apichatpong Weerasethakul seems special," begins Max Goldberg in the San Francisco
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"The Clock," "Frankenstein," Bogart, More
David Hudson"Christian Marclay, the wizardly visual artist, composer and appropriator has done it again, and then some," begins Roberta Smith in the New York Times. "The Clock, his latest excursion into extreme
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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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Telluride and TIFF 2010. Danny Boyle's "127 Hours"
David Hudson"Many tears were shed at the world premiere screening of 127 Hours at the Telluride Film Festival on Saturday afternoon," reports John Horn in the Los Angeles Times. "But few in the audience of some
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The Auteurs Daily: Best of the British
David HudsonThe Observer Film Magazine poll that gives us a list of the "best British films" of the last 25 years can only be described as informal - but it's the informality that makes it interesting
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Now in theaters: "Slumdog Millionaire" (Boyle, UK)
Vadim RizovThe opening moments of Slumdog Millionaire confirm Danny Boyle is behind the camera: a totally artificial golden light bathing god knows what for a peaceful moment, and then the sudden eruption of violence