The Noteworthy: Django, John Huston, and the End of the World
Adam CookThe debut of our new weekly column of essential reads, watches & listens.
Jean Vigo
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Daily Briefing. Senses of Cinema's 2011 World Poll
David HudsonAlso: J Hoberman on film culture now. L’Atalante in London. Projects in the works and more.
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The Comedy Stylings of Robert Bresson
Ignatiy VishnevetskyTracing Bresson’s audio-visual sensibility back to the formally-ambitious film comedies of the early 1930s.
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DVDs. Jean Vigo, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Lee Chang-dong, More
David HudsonFilms by Fassbinder and Eisenstein are also out this week on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Lolas, "Brand X," Sembène, Renwick, Vigo
David Hudson"Ralf Huettner's sleeper hit Vincent Wants to Sea was the surprise best picture winner at the 61st German Film Awards, Germany's version of the Oscars." Scott Roxborough from Berlin for the Hollywood
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Movie poster of the week: "L'atalante"
Adrian CurryBack in 1990 I had just moved to New York and was interning at New Yorker Films. They had just picked up the restored version of Jean Vigo's 1934 masterpiece L'atalante, one of my favorite films, and