Benning + Notes
David HudsonJames Benning will be on hand this evening for the Los Angeles premiere of his RR (2007). "For the last 40 years Benning has been one of the great directors of American films," writes Phil Coldiron in
Douglas Sirk
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Todd Haynes @ 50
David HudsonOne of the more intriguing projects we have to look forward to this year is Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce, a five-part miniseries airing on HBO in March and featuring Kate Winslet. Michael Curtiz's
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"Apocalypse Now," Sirk, More DVDs
David HudsonAnother day, another list for the Guardian's Film Season. This one's the "action and war 25," and topping it is Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, "a cult film for the ages, an imperfect classic
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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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Video Sundays. Cabaret Cinema
Daniel KasmanFour clips from the cinema of cabaret: Chabrol, Godard, Sternerg, Sirk.
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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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Two Recent Releases: "Magnificent Obsession"
David Phelps*** The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’s world looks painted—like a painting, it’s a selective recreation of reality, history designed to the frame, with light traced in neat, neoclassical lines
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Two Recent Releases: "Benjamin Button"
David PhelpsWhat to do with an idiotic script? Douglas Sirk replied, “I realized maybe Jane Wyman could be right, and this goddamn awful story could be a success. And it was. My immediate reaction to Magnificent
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The Forgotten: Entombed
David CairnsBEWARE THE BEAT OF THE CLOTH-WRAPPED FEET In Maurice Pialat's last film, Le Garcu, a strange film can be seen playing on TV in the background. Die Herrin von Atlantis, directed by G.W. Pabst, was one
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "A Time To Love And A Time To Die" (Sirk, 1958)
Glenn KennyThe immaculate dissolve above occurs very near the end of Sirk's 1958 masterpiece, his penultimate Hollywood film. The film's hero, Ernst Graeber (John Gavin), a German soldier who we first see as part
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Looking Back on Anthology’s Stahl vs. Sirk Series
Dan SallittAnthology Film Archives' recent "Imitations of Life: Stahl vs. Sirk" series demonstrates that, though John M. Stahl and Douglas Sirk both labored in the fields of the Universal melodrama, they don’t have
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Stahl vs. Sirk
Vadim RizovAbove: Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in John M. Stahl's When Tomorrow Comes. Anthology Film Archives is performing a public service by showing three John M. Stahl films with their Douglas Sirk remakes;