Daily Briefing. Denis, Guerín, Straub @ Exit Art; New Cinema Lucida
David HudsonAlso: Girish Shambu on the video essay, Brian Darr on Méliès, Kurt Jensen on Mamoulian and more.
Louis Malle
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Daily Briefing. Bright Lights 74
David HudsonAlso: New essays up at the Chiseler; and there’s a new book out, Gary Cooper: Enduring Style.
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NYAFF, Film Quarterly and Lots More
David HudsonRoundup of the New York Asian Film Festival, the new issue of Film Quarterly, and more.
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Tuesday Foreign Blu-ray Disc Report: "Spirits of the Dead" (Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini, 1967)
Glenn KennyIt's interesting the way a film's reputation mutates over the years. Moderately well do I recall the reception accorded Spirits of the Dead, originally called Histoires extraordinaires, when it hit the
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Dreyer, Malle, Davies, Huston
David HudsonThe Carl Theodor Dreyer retrospective at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley has been going on since the beginning of the month and runs through December 12. Time to catch up with Kelly Vance's piece
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Bright Lights 70, "Malle Entendu" @ Not Coming, DVDs
David HudsonGary Morris takes us by the hand and leads us into the new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal: "This issue, #70, with a mere 26 articles may seem shorter than usual, but we've tried to compensate
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Le feu follet"
Adrian CurryThis suitably autumnal poster for Louis Malle’s Le feu follet (The Fire Within) was the creation of the brilliant German designer Hans Hillmann. Now 83 years old, Hillmann was a major film poster designer