Daily Briefing. Bergman's Videos, Antonioni's Docs and More
David HudsonAlso: Posters for this year’s Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week, “Great Directors” in San Francisco, Picasso in London and more.
Michael Powell
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Daily Briefing. Jordan Mintzer's "James Gray"
David HudsonGray is at BAMcinématek tonight. And Offscreen focuses on Fellini and Powell and Pressburger.
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Daily Viewing. From "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"
David Hudson“One of the strangest epics, most bizarre propaganda efforts, and greatest films to ever emerge from the British cinema.”
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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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Out of the Past: Five Old Flames
Ryland Walker KnightWe 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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"Harry Potter," "Peeping Tom," More
David Hudson"Let me count the ways I love the Harry Potter movies," wrote Amy Taubin in the summer of 2009, as if asking permission to do so in Artforum's virtual pages. First, they "remind me of growing up enthralled
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Tuesday Foreign Region Blu-ray disc Report: "The Edge of the World" (Michael Powell, 1937)
Glenn KennyMichael Powell's 1937 film, something of a creative and business breakthrough for the pioneering filmmaker after a considerable and lengthy apprenticeship, as it were, churning out "quota quickies
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Tuesday Morning Foreign DVD and Blu-ray disc Report: "The Battle of the River Plate/The Pursuit of the Graf Spee" (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1956)
Glenn KennyThis is the film that made me fall in love with Montvideo. Montevideo being the major city in Uruguay and the setting for the climax of this picture, a naval battle whose outcome I shall be spoiling
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Noir, Powell and Pressburger and More DVDs
David HudsonDave Kehr in the New York Times on the fifth volume of Warner's Film Noir Classic Collection and the second volume of Sony's Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics: "What you do get from these combined
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Cosmic View
matthew swiezynskiCosmic View
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Introducing The Auteurs Daily
David HudsonSo. Where were we? Right, I was saying that I'd "been dreaming up a new format and, if all goes according to plan, it'll be rolling out slowly in two phases." Well, plans change. In this case, for the
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The Forgotten: I Stab Sane
David CairnsABSENTIAS "Switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive: this is really quite important." Some filmmakers, alas, are forgotten when they die, but some are forgotten even before. Michael Powell spent most