The Golden Donkey Berlinale 2011
The Ferroni BrigadeThe crows knew it from Day One: Berlin 2011 would be a—slightly—happier experience. Normally, when night began to fall, the crows descended upon the frost-bleak trees around Potsdamer Platz
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New York's "Essential Pre-Code" Series: Week 3
Daniel KasmanPart three of our guide to New York’s retrospective on pre-Code films.
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Collaborators, War Stories and Roads Not Taken: An Interview with Monte Hellman
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe cult director of Two-Lane Blacktop returns with his first feature in twenty years.
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New York's "Essential Pre-Code" Series: Week 2
Daniel KasmanPart two of our guide to New York’s retrospective on pre-Code films.
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At Long Last I See "At Long Last Love" and Love It
Doug DibbernA re-appreciation of Peter Bogdanovich’s much-maligned 1975 musical.
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New York's "Essential Pre-Code" Series: Week 1
Daniel KasmanPart one of our guide to New York’s retrospective on pre-Code films.
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Islands of Experience
Kurt ShulenbergerA look at how video games create meaning (and art): a report from the Game Developers Conference.
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Finding Zen in Poland: An Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski
Ben SachsThe Jerzy Skolimowski retrospective currently touring the United States is re-introducing American audiences to one of the most free-spirited directors the movies have ever produced. His first features
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The Lower Depths: Alex Ross Perry and "The Color Wheel"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyThe Color Wheel is 83 minutes long. About 9 minutes and 40 seconds of those 83 minutes (i.e. roughly 1/9th) are taken up by a single shot, handheld, in which the cameraman (Sean Price Williams) only
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Tough, Uncompromising, Nasty Little Films: A Conversation with Elliot Lavine
Max GoldbergAbove: Publicity still from John Parker's Dementia (1955). Rep houses in San Francisco, like those in most American cities, are struggling to stay open. But for something like thirty nights a year
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Cannes S.V.P.
Daniel KasmanARRIVAL The plane lands in Nice, the closest large airport, a mere thirty minute drive from Cannes. The picturesque landing introduces a geography mirrored at the festival a few hills away—
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Notebook Roundtable: Talking Silent Naruse
Daniel KasmanA discussion of five early films by Mikio Naruse.