Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema “Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt”
NotebookAn essay by Nicole Brenez from a new anthology on maverick filmmaker-critic Jean Epstein, the subject of a New York retrospective.
Jean Epstein
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Rotterdam 2012. Lineup for Regained Celebrates the Memory of Film
David HudsonSerge Bromberg celebrates Georges Méliès. Also recognized will be Peter Kubelka, Pablo Ferro, Jean Epstein, Raúl Ruiz and Bart Vegter.
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The Forgotten: I Heart
David CairnsJean Epstein’s fable of love imperiled. As simple as a fairy tale, but set against stark backgrounds of modern deprivation.
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"My Perestroika," "Silent Naruse," More
David Hudson"If you're under the impression that post-Soviet Russia is a Wild West peopled at one extreme by gold-chained Mafiosi and at the other by starving babushkas hawking single daffodils in the Moscow
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Senses of Cinema 57, Lists, More
David HudsonEditor Ronald Caputo notes that many of the articles appearing in the new issue of Senses of Cinema were first presented as papers at the Cinema in the Digital Age symposium hosted by Film Program at
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The Forgotten: Open-Plan Dovecot Required
David CairnsPigeon-holes are terribly useful things, it seems. Film-makers who can't be shoehorned into one or the other have a way of falling down the cracks. Now, that is a pretty awesomely mixed bunch of metaphors
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NYFF 2010. Michael Epstein's "LennonNYC"
David Hudson"In two weeks' time, on 9 October 9, John would have been 70," writes Richard Williams, former deputy editor of Melody Maker and current chief sports writer for the Guardian, in today's Observer
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"Enter the Void," "Wall Street," "Waiting for 'Superman'" and More
David Hudson"This is your brain." Manohla Dargis in the New York Times: "This is your brain on a Gaspar Noé movie. More specifically, Enter the Void is the latest from the never uninteresting, sometimes exasperating
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The Tubular Muse: The Close-Up
Daniel KasmanAnna Faris in "Smiley Face" (2007) & Maria Falconetti in "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928) "I will never find the way to say how much I love American close-ups. Point blank. A head suddenly appears
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Quote of the day
Daniel KasmanJean Epstein on happy endings.