Daily Briefing. Bergman's Videos, Antonioni's Docs and More
David HudsonAlso: Posters for this year’s Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week, “Great Directors” in San Francisco, Picasso in London and more.
Emeric Pressburger
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Daily Briefing. Jordan Mintzer's "James Gray"
David HudsonGray is at BAMcinématek tonight. And Offscreen focuses on Fellini and Powell and Pressburger.
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Daily Viewing. From "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"
David Hudson“One of the strangest epics, most bizarre propaganda efforts, and greatest films to ever emerge from the British cinema.”
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Out of the Past: Five Old Flames
Ryland Walker KnightWe at MUBI think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection
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Tuesday Morning Foreign DVD and Blu-ray disc Report: "The Battle of the River Plate/The Pursuit of the Graf Spee" (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1956)
Glenn KennyThis is the film that made me fall in love with Montvideo. Montevideo being the major city in Uruguay and the setting for the climax of this picture, a naval battle whose outcome I shall be spoiling
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Noir, Powell and Pressburger and More DVDs
David HudsonDave Kehr in the New York Times on the fifth volume of Warner's Film Noir Classic Collection and the second volume of Sony's Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics: "What you do get from these combined
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Cosmic View
matthew swiezynskiCosmic View