Daily Briefing. Frances Farmer, Sylvie Testud, Fassbinder and Fassbender
David HudsonAlso: David Phelps’s Secret History of America. Remembering Warhol. A pirate’s justification. And more.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Film Comment Selects 2012
David Hudson“We sort of do the lineup by the seat of our pants.”
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Daily Briefing. Occupy Cinema, Kapoor and Kuchar, Fassbinder and More
David HudsonAlso: Pacific Standard Time screenings in Los Angeles. And the best DVDs and Blu-rays of 2011.
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DVDs. Jean Vigo, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Lee Chang-dong, More
David HudsonFilms by Fassbinder and Eisenstein are also out this week on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Notebook Reviews: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "World on a Wire"
Fernando F. CroceThe sci-fi masterpiece, part “Alphaville”, part Fritz Lang, part “The Matrix”, yet wholly original.
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Nicolas Roeg, Les Blank, Fassbinder and More
David HudsonWith Insignificance (1985) out from Criterion last week (see the roundup), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) opening at Film Forum in New York tomorrow and, in the UK, Don't Look Now (1973) out on Blu
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Fassbinder, De Sica, Roeg and More DVDs
David HudsonUpdated. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's newly restored Despair (1978) "was one of the hottest tickets in the Classics sidebar" in Cannes this year, notes Dennis Lim in his Los Angeles Times review of the
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Wrapping Cannes 2011. Classics and Special Screenings
David HudsonThis final wrap comes with a reminder that all our reviews, interviews and coverage of the coverage is indexed right here. "Throughout her nearly half-century career, actress Charlotte Rampling has
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Video of the day. Trailer for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "World on a Wire"
Daniel KasmanTrailer for the Janus Films release of Fassbinder’s made for television sci-fi masterpiece, World on a Wire.
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Movie Poster of the Week: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "World on a Wire"
Adrian CurryMovie Poster of the Week is excited to be unveiling the exclusive world premiere of the newest poster from the man who may be the hottest designer in the independent film world right now: Sam Smith
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Senses of Cinema 56, Assayas @ BAM, More
David HudsonSenses of Cinema editor Rolando Caputo, summing up the gist of Murray Pomerance's essay on Second Life, notes that, for those who live there, "the 'virtual world' has become reality, and 'reality' the
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Despair"
Adrian CurryAnyone who follows me on Twitter might guess from my icon that I’m a bit of a Dirk Bogarde fan. I featured him in The Servant last year but until last week I had never seen this amazing poster for Fassbinder’s