The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. Bluebeard
David HudsonWe're going to get this year's New York Film Festival wrapped before Christmas. That's a promise. Today, on the occasion of Glenn Kenny's interview with Catherine Breillat: Bluebeard, which Glenn
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Some Words About "Bluebeard" with Catherine Breillat
Glenn KennyThe old—make that ancient—Charles Perrault fairy tale of Bluebeard seems such a natural text for the ever-provocative French filmmaker Catherine Breillat to twist into knots that one wonders why the
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24 Hours of Avant-Garde: The Good Hours, Part III
Johnny LavantStill Raining, Still Dreaming (Phil Solomon) / Waterfront Follies (Ernie Gehr) A perfect double feature. Still Raining, Still Dreaming continues Solomon's explorations of Grand Theft Auto
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24 Hours of Avant-Garde: The Good Hours, Part II
Johnny LavantTrypps / Let Each One Go Where He May (Ben Russell) Russell calls his on-going Trypps project, available online at Vimeo, “psychedelic ethnography,” the first word signaling an internal trip (head
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24 Hours of Avant-Garde: The Good Hours, Part I
Johnny LavantJournals and Remarks (David Gatten) Gatten's silent Bolero is “the second reel of the ongoing Continuous Quantities series [and] contains 700 shots, 29 frames each, shuttling between the 1839 version
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The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. Ne change rien
David Hudson"Like his earlier documentary, Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? on seminal filmmakers Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet at work on Sicilia!," begins Acquarello, "Pedro Costa's Ne change rien plays
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NYFF 09: Title for Tattle
Johnny LavantAbove: Todd Solondz's new film, Life in Wartime. White Material (Claire Denis, France) As with a lot of still-young, experimental filmmakers, Claire Denis’ strengths are her weaknesses: characters
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The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. Min Yè
David Hudson"Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé is most renowned for Yeelen, an African epic that's as entertaining as Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings trilogy while engaging intellectually with its mythological
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The Auteurs Daily: Toronto and NYFF. Vincere
David Hudson"Less a biography on the early life of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini than a dissection into creating (and sustaining) a cult of personality," writes Acquarello, "Marco Bellocchio's Vincere is a textured
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The Auteurs Daily: Toronto and NYFF. The White Ribbon
David Hudson"As is the case with several films in this year's New York Film Festival, Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon exemplifies the pleasures and drawbacks of auteurism," begins Eric Hynes in Reverse Shot
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NYFF 09: “L’enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot” (Serge Bromberg, Ruxandra Medrea, USA)
Fernando F. Croce“Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?” asks the sensualist next door in the Coens’ A Serious Man. Henri-Georges Clouzot did. Inflamed by the success of 8½, the French veteran set out in 1964 to
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The Auteurs Daily: NYFF. A Room and a Half
David Hudson"For all its flights of cinematic fantasy," begins Andrew Schenker in Slant, "the dominant note struck by A Room and a Half, Andrey Khrzhanovsky's recreation-cum-fantasia of the life of poet Joseph