Daily Briefing. Grimly Reaping in 2011
David HudsonAlso: New issues of One + One and the Brooklyn Rail, today’s lists and more.
Jacques Tati
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Repertory. Truffaut, Newman, Noonan, More
David HudsonThe Bride Wore Black, Sometimes a Great Notion, What Happened Was… and more.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Le Havre”
Adrian CurryAn exclusive look at the brand new poster for Kaurismäki’s Le Havre, as well as some other updates from the New York Film Festival.
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Image of the day. Jacques Tati on a Collision Course
Daniel KasmanPhotograph by Bob Willoughby. (Via.)
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Muybridge, Tati, Latinbeat
David Hudson"Combining artistic vision with scientific analysis, Muybridge showed how an image that paralyses motion can catch the fluency of phenomena," wrote Peter Conrad in the Observer a little over a week
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Tourneur, Baudrillard, Loden, Pasolini, More
David HudsonMany thanks to Matthew Flanagan for pointing out the fifth issue of the multi-lingual journal La Furia Umana with its rapporto confidenziale devoted to Jacques Tourneur. It opens with a conversation
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Preservation Blog-a-Thon, "Russia," Events, DVDs
David Hudson"According to estimates, at least 50 percent of all films made for public exhibition before 1951 have been lost," writes Marilyn Ferdinand. "Move into the silent era, and the estimate shoots up to
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Jacques Tati, Coast to Coast
David Hudson"The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of the French screenwriter, director, and actor Jacques Tati (born Jacques Tatischeff, 1907–1982) features newly struck, gloriously restored 35mm prints of
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The Forgotten: Ghostwatch
David CairnsClaude Autant-Lara is not an easy man to like. This mainly stems from his disgraceful old age -- Autant-Lara belonged to that generation of filmmakers rejected by the up-and-coming nouvelle vague, and