"Putty Hill," "Unknown," Truffaut, More
David Hudson“Not much happened in Matthew Porterfield’s first film, Hamilton, which was sort of the point,” writes Paul Schrodt in Slant…
Tetsuya Nakashima
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TIFF 2010. Vanguard
David HudsonLet's start this one with Bob Turnbull: "Fearless. Absolutely fearless filmmaking. Sion Sono takes no quarter, doesn't deal with compromises and doesn't hold anything back. He goes by
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TIFF 2010. Day 7
Daniel Kasman0742 Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima, Japan) Here’s a film that, in away, people will eat up because the filmmaker knows exactly what he’s doing to what intended effect. What he’s doing is presenting
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New York Asian Film Festival 2010
David Hudson"By now a programming institution in its eighth hyperactive annual episode, the New York Asian Film Festival is one of American film culture's most invaluable resources," writes
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"Winter's Bone," Joan, Coco & Igor and "Black Death"
David Hudson"Winter's Bone, warmly embraced at this year's Sundance Film Festival, belongs, at least at first glance, to one of that festival's familiar genres: the regional-realist morality tale." AO Scott