Daily Briefing. "Blue Velvet" @ 25
David HudsonAlso: Syrian filmmaker Nidal Hassan arrested. The death and afterlife of film. Bertolucci’s Last Emperor in 3D.
Jane Campion
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Satyajit Ray + More Events, DVDs, News
David HudsonLong Shadows: The Late Work of Satyajit Ray opens this evening and runs through April 26 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center: "Of special interest is Home and the World [1984; image above], his final
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Bright Star"
Adrian Curry“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases...” This gorgeous French poster for Jane Campion’s Bright Star (which doesn't open in Paris until January) is quite a departure from the
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Now in Theaters: "Bright Star" (Jane Campion, UK)
Martha PolkThere's a great deal of sweetness in Jane Campion's Bright Star. A painterly interpretation of the romance between Fanny Brawne and John Keats, the film grows from a wealth of tender material. Keats
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The Auteurs Daily: Toronto. Bright Star
David Hudson"Jane Campion's Bright Star gives us not a brash or bratty Keats," writes Jessica Winter at Moving Image Source, "but textbook emo-Keats: feline and kind, delicate and almost vaporous, a little histrionic;