Electric Sheep, Lists and DVDs
David Hudson"Bitterness" is the theme of Electric Sheep's new issue, featuring Nicola Woodham on Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani's neo-giallo Amer and John Bleasdale on Dario Argento's straight-up
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Benning + Notes
David HudsonJames Benning will be on hand this evening for the Los Angeles premiere of his RR (2007). "For the last 40 years Benning has been one of the great directors of American films," writes Phil Coldiron in
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"The Time That Remains," Film Comment, More
David HudsonWe'll get to what all else is online from the new issue of Film Comment in a moment, but first, here's Joumane Chahine on a film playing at the IFC Center in New York through Tuesday: "Although it
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Peter Weir and Yet More Lists
David HudsonVoyager: The Films of Peter Weir opens today at the Walter Reade Theater in New York and runs through the weekend. In the Voice, Nicolas Rapold surveys the oeuvre: "Weir's sense of foreboding, stroked
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"Whistle," "Phil Ochs," Events, Lists, News
David Hudson"If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, Romania's official submission for the best foreign-language film Oscar, is a study in confinement," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. "Like many other recent
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Lists and DVDs 2010
David HudsonEvidently, a lot of people weren't on holiday over the holidays. Instead, they were listing, and since New Year's Day, when Moving Image Source posted its walloping collection, "Moments of 2010," the
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Todd Haynes @ 50
David HudsonOne of the more intriguing projects we have to look forward to this year is Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce, a five-part miniseries airing on HBO in March and featuring Kate Winslet. Michael Curtiz's
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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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Lists 2010. International Grab Bag
David HudsonUnknown Pleasures, a festival of American independent film, opens at the Babylon in Berlin tomorrow with Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro and runs through January 16. With special programs focusing on
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Lists 2010. Reverse Shot, SFBG, More
David Hudson"Any critic who could, with a straight face, populate a ten-best list either primarily or exclusively with American films released in one of the worst years in recent memory for homegrown filmmaking
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Cinema Scope 45, National Film Registry, Anticipating 2011
David HudsonEditor Mark Peranson has announced that, starting this winter, in a "slight capitulation to the realities of the 2010s," Cinema Scope will be running a weekly online supplement of "reviews and reports
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Film Foundation, Offscreen, Lists, More
David HudsonNew York's Film Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating 20 Years of Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation — which, it should probably be noted, is not to be confused with his World Cinema