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  20 Mar 12

  Daily Briefing. Senses of Cinema 62

  David Hudson

  Also: Richard Brody on Jerry Lewis, Johnnie To in Udine and more.

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  • Artavazd Peleshian /
  • Jerry Lewis /
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  • Geoff Dyer /
  • Johnnie To /
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  • Oberhausen /
  • Jamie Stuart /
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  01 Feb 12

  Daily Briefing. For the Love Film III

  David Hudson

  In the news: Ridley Scott, Cristian Mungiu, Denis Villeneuve, Richard Ayoade, Laurent Cantet and more.

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  17 Dec 11

  Daily Briefing. Film Comment Poll: Best of 2011

  David Hudson

  Also: The Louis Delluc Prize, books and adaptations, and celebrating Studio Ghibli.

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  14 Nov 11

  Daily Briefing. Bright Lights 74

  David Hudson

  Also: New essays up at the Chiseler; and there’s a new book out, Gary Cooper: Enduring Style.

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  16 Jul 11

  Notebook Reviews: Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique” and John Carpenter’s “The Ward”

  Fernando F. Croce

  Framed in a close shot, college students go about their business around a Xerox machine when a spray of bullets suddenly rips into the image. Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve's 2009 fictionalized account

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  30 Jun 11

  NYAFF, Film Quarterly and Lots More

  David Hudson

  Roundup of the New York Asian Film Festival, the new issue of Film Quarterly, and more.

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  • Deborah Kaufman /
  • Jonathan Kaplan /
  • Alexander Dovzhenko /
  • Louis Malle /
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  24 Jun 11

  UK. "Cutter's Way" and More

  David Hudson

  It's a good weekend for moviegoing in the UK, starting with the pleasantly surprising revival of Ivan Passer's Cutter's Way (1981). "Much as womanizing slacker Richard Bone (Jeff Bridges) finds himself

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  22 Apr 11

  "Incendies," "Beautiful Darling," "Stake Land," More

  David Hudson

  "Denis Villeneuve's Incendies — an operatic saga of intergenerational woe — is the cinematic equivalent of a Harlem Globetrotters game, with brazen contrivances and a preordained outcome

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  25 Mar 11

  ND/NF 2011. "Majority," "Memory Lane," "Happy, Happy," "Incendies"

  David Hudson

  "As much a portrait of incipient fascism as it is a tale of young love thwarted, Seren Yüce's Majority acts as something like a quad erat demonstrandum of the way the Turkish ruling classes perpetuate

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  13 Sep 10

  Venice, Telluride and TIFF 2010. Denis Villeneuve's "Incendies"

  David Hudson

  Blogging from Telluride for TCM, morlockjeff found that among the "most powerful" of the films he caught was Incendies, "directed by Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve and set during the Lebanese

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