Movie Poster of the Week: “The Human Bullet” and the Posters of the Art Theater Guild
Adrian CurryA selection of late 60s graphic masterpieces created for the Art Theater Guild in Japan.
Masahiro Shinoda
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Daily Briefing. Senses of Cinema 61 and More of the Best of 2011
David HudsonAlso: Emir Kusturica is going to build a stone city.
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Daily Briefing. Shinoda talks + Cuarón spacewalks
David HudsonA rare and remarkable interview with Masahiro Shinoda. Plus: “Bronson!” and news of several projects in the works.
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"Araya," "Pale Flower" and More DVDs
David Hudson"Margot Benacerraf, now in her 80s, only ever made one feature-length film," begins Josef Braun, "but that film remains so extraordinary, so very nearly singular, that it merits an admiration on par
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Out of the Past 2010: Some Favorite Film Double Features
David PhelpsWe at MUBI think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection
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Quote of the day
Masahiro Shinoda on the symbolism of flowers.
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NYFF 2010. Wrap
David HudsonThe index will take you to roundups for nearly every film in this year's New York Film Festival main slate as well as to those for a handful of special events and Views from the Avant-Garde. This last
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NYFF 2010. Doppelgangers and Masterworks
Daniel Kasman• I picked up on something of David Fincher in The Social Network I hadn't noticed before—his appreciation for script's which split his protagonists into dopplegangers. In this film, the character
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Films of Masahiro Shinoda
Adrian CurryAs a sidebar to the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is currently running a retrospective of the great and underappreciated Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. As
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Film Comment, Offscreen, Acidemic, Brooklyn Rail
David HudsonFor the most part, the September/October issue of Film Comment is a New York Film Festival preview. We've seen Scott Foundas's piece on David Fincher's The Social Network, whose world premiere will
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Silence" (Shinoda, 1971)
Glenn KennyThe recent news that Martin Scorsese's next film would be an adaptation of Shushaku Endo's novel Chinmoku (Silence in English translation) was most welcome for many fans of the director. There's a general