Daily Briefing. Pasolini's "Gospel"
David HudsonAlso: Dave Kehr on Mitchell Leisen and Zachary Oberzan’s Your Brother. Remember?
John Cassavetes
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Ben Gazzara, 1930 - 2012
David HudsonHis work with Cassavetes springs to mind first, but there’s a playful variety in the range of roles he took on before and after.
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Benning's "Remake" of Cassavetes's "Faces"
David HudsonThe premiere of Benning’s “unexpected venture into the world of ‘found footage’ filmmaking” will be on November 19 in Vienna.
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Daily Briefing. JLG, Benning/Cassavetes, Jia + Zhao
David HudsonGodard talks about his next film, Benning mentions one he slipped in between Ruhr and Twenty Cigarettes — and more.
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Peter Falk, 1927 - 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 6/26. "Peter Falk, the stage and movie actor who became identified as the squinty, rumpled detective in Columbo, which spanned 30 years in primetime television and established one of
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Rappaport, Truffaut, Chabrol, Cassavetes, Roeg
David HudsonNew York's Anthology Film Archives introduces its series, The Films of Mark Rappaport, running today through Thursday: "Rappaport's career has unfolded in two distinct chapters, the first consisting
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Ecstatic Cinema, Cannon, Punk
David Hudson"Cinema has always been suffused with magic," writes Brecht Andersch, outlining some of the thoughts behind Bay Area Ecstatic, an evening of "mystically inclined experimental filmmaking that seeks to
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The Auteurs Daily: New York, New York
David Hudson"My favorite film of the last two years, Hong Sang-soo's Bam gua nat (Night and Day), is getting a one-week run at Anthology Film Archives, starting this Friday," announces Dan Sallitt, and for more
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Husbands"
Adrian CurryThe recent, long-awaited DVD release of John Cassavetes’ Husbands (1970) is more than enough of an excuse to feature this illustrated French grande as Movie Poster of the Week. I like this poster a lot
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The Auteurs Daily: Three Husbands and One Headless Woman
David Hudson"Like my other films, The Headless Woman doesn't end in the moment that the lights go up, it ends one or two days later," Lucrecia Martel tells Chris Wisniewski in Reverse Shot. "In each of Martel
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SFIFF52: Innocence Unprotected
Duc Joie TranAbove: Philippe Falardeau's It's Not Me, I Swear. Judging a festival by its trailer—a dictum noticeably absent whenever we speak about this or that festival from Trendytown USA to the reliable global