Daily Briefing. Global Roundup
David HudsonNews from Critics’ Week, Jeonju, Panama, Locarno, London…
Todd Solondz
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Toronto 2011. Days Three and Four
Dan SallittStrong films by Karim Aïnouz, Julia Loktev, and Alejandro Landes, and disappointments from Todd Solondz, Whit Stillman, and Guo Xiaolu.
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Venice and Toronto 2011. Todd Solondz's "Dark Horse"
David HudsonDark Horse “might just represent the warmest film Solondz is capable of making.”
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Tacita Dean + More Lists 2010
David Hudson"At 11 minutes long, Tacita Dean's film Prisoner Pair (showing at the Common Guild gallery in Glasgow [through February 5]) is a svelte précis of certain tendencies in the English artist's haunting
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"Life During Wartime," "Farewell," "Salt," More
David Hudson"Daring the discomfited viewer to laugh at shame and suffering, and then wonder why we're laughing, Todd Solondz is back," announces J Hoberman in the Voice. "Life During Wartime, which won Best Screenplay
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Life During Wartime"
Adrian CurryWhatever you say about the films of Todd Solondz, and people usually have a lot to say, his posters are often something special. Whether by coincidence or design his films have now racked up three of
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"Five Easy Pieces," "Boogie Woogie," More
David HudsonWhile TCM's festival runs on through the weekend, Los Angeles has a couple of other classic numbers playing as well. The Nuart Theatre is screening Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces (1970
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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: Venice, Telluride, Toronto and NYFF. Life During Wartime
David Hudson"In revisiting his darkly comic 1998 ensembler Happiness, Todd Solondz may have made his best film with Life During Wartime," proposes Todd McCarthyin Variety. "The distinctive, boundary-pushing