Haiti, Raoul Peck
David HudsonFor those of us hundreds or even thousands of miles away, the devastation in Haiti is unfathomable, however many articles we've read or hours of news footage we've seen. For most of us, two days on
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Peter Greenaway, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Events
David HudsonNot Coming to a Theater Near You has launched another one of its must-follow series, this one on the films Peter Greenaway made with cinematographer Sacha Vierny, art direction team Ben van Os and
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Bahman Ghobadi and Abbas Kiarostami, Events, Issues, DVDs
David HudsonConan O'Brien's rousing open letter to the "People of Earth" is all the rage over the wires and in the ether at the moment, but there's another open letter out there that makes for a far more disturbing
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Eric Rohmer, 1920 - 2010
David Hudson"Eric Rohmer, a pioneer of the French New Wave which transformed cinema in the 1960s," reports Reuters. "He was 89." As in the barrage of other first reports hitting the wires, the milestones are just
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Film Comment, Chopin, Oscars
David Hudson"Tony Grisoni adapted 1974 [directed by Julian Jarrold] from the first novel in David Peace's Red Riding Quartet, named for a Grimm's fairytale, the color of blood, and the West Riding district of Yorkshire
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"Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," "Youth in Revolt," Docs, Paul Verhoeven
David HudsonFor this week's roundup on movies opening in theaters, let's start with the UK since Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll looks like it may be the most interesting of the bunch. As it happens, on
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Preservation Blog-a-Thon, "Russia," Events, DVDs
David Hudson"According to estimates, at least 50 percent of all films made for public exhibition before 1951 have been lost," writes Marilyn Ferdinand. "Move into the silent era, and the estimate shoots up to
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Kick-Ass Opening for SXSW
David HudsonMatthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass will be opening this year's South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW), running March 12 through 20. At Twitch, Rodney Perkins, who saw a rough cut at Harry Knowles
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US Indies Abroad, Kelly Reichardt, Elvis
David HudsonFor the second year in a row, the Babylon theater in Berlin is presenting a series of American independent films, 22 this time around, ranging widely in genre, style, means of production and, for that
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2010: Godard, Malick, Hong, Loach, Kiarostami, Tarr and More
David HudsonA few previews are already in. At In Contention, Kristopher Tapley lists ten big budget roll-outs he's looking forward to in 2010; the New York Times (where Michael Cieply explains why some films opening
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Elia Kazan, Yasujiro Ozu, Akira Kurosawa
David HudsonSo as not to play favorites or anything, we're simply going to take a look at three retrospectives of work by Elia Kazan, Yasujiro Ozu and Akira Kurosawa in Chicago, London and New York, respectively
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Lists #8: Moving Image Source and More
David HudsonPreviously: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. See, too, The Notebook's 2nd Annual Writers Poll: Fantasy Double Features of 2009, parts 1, 2 and 3. Moving Image Source introduces one of the annual collections