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  07 Mar 12

  Similar Images #4

  Daniel Kasman

  The horror of walking the streets of America in 1933 and 1988.

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  03 Feb 12

  Daily Briefing. Béla Tarr, "Swoon" @ 20 and Catherine Robbe-Grillet

  David Hudson

  Also: Farocki, Amos Poe, Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins, Barbara Hammer, Fritz Lang and a busy season for admirers of Sherlock Holmes.

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  25 Oct 11

  Scary Monsters 2011, Round 3

  David Hudson

  Lists, reviews of classic and new horror, news and interviews. Updated through Halloween.

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  16 Jul 11

  Notebook Reviews: Denis Villeneuve’s “Polytechnique” and John Carpenter’s “The Ward”

  Fernando F. Croce

  Framed in a close shot, college students go about their business around a Xerox machine when a spray of bullets suddenly rips into the image. Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve's 2009 fictionalized account

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  23 Apr 11

  Hoberman, HBO's "Cinema Verite," More

  David Hudson

   This evening at 92Y Tribeca, J Hoberman will be introducing a screening of Anthony Mann's Reign of Terror (1949, also known as The Black Book) and signing copies of his new book, An Army of Phantoms

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  04 Dec 10

  "True Grit," "Tron: Legacy" and Weekend Reads

  David Hudson

  Turned out to be quite the week for Jeff Bridges. Following Criterion's release of America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, a package that includes Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), featuring

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  02 Nov 10

  UnionDocs in Brooklyn and Berlin, DVDs, "Aftershock"

  David Hudson

  "What better way to spend Election Night than watching classic campaign ads and a political documentary?" asks Mike Everleth, pointing us to a multi-part special program happening tonight in Brooklyn

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  15 Sep 10

  TIFF 2010. "John Carpenter's The Ward"

  David Hudson

  "Tight as a drum and plenty of fun, John Carpenter's first film in nine years is hardly a groundbreaker, but when the execution is this expert, why complain?" asks Tim Grierson in Screen. "Consciously

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  17 Aug 10

  DVDs. Pialat, von Sternberg, Laloux, More

  David Hudson

  In the Los Angeles Times, Dennis Lim writes that Maurice Pialat's first feature film, L'enfance nue (Naked Childhood, 1968), "out on DVD this week from the Criterion Collection, can be seen as a companion

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