Fred Baker, 1933 - 2011
David Hudson"Fred Baker, a filmmaker, actor, director, screenwriter and jazz musician, died of natural causes on June 5 in New York City," reports Variety. "He was 78. Baker was among the subversive, experimental
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"The Cinema of Jerzy Skolimowski"
David HudsonSkolimowski at work, from the December 1968 issue of Films and Filming, via chained and perfumed. Jerzy Skolimowski's comeback as a director after a break of nearly two decades threw many for a loop
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Jorge Semprún, 1923 - 2011
David HudsonUpdated through 6/12. "Jorge Semprún, a Spanish writer whose novelistic memoirs (or memoirish novels) drew on his experiences as a French Resistance fighter, concentration camp survivor, Communist
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"Super 8," "Viva Riva!," "The Trip," "Cría cuervos," More
David HudsonFirst, a quick reminder that entries on several films playing here or there have been updated through today: Film Socialisme, Agrarian Utopia, Road to Nowhere and The Tree of Life. Alright, on with the
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Éric Rohmer's "Le Rayon Vert" (and More)
David Hudson"Though Éric Rohmer's breakthrough film stateside was the lustrous black-and-white, winter-set My Night at Maud's (1969), the New Wave architect may be cinema's greatest chronicler of the summer
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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011
David Hudson"No longer critically marginalized as of lesser importance than the fiction feature film, no longer automatically regarded as 'box-office poison,' and with many of its most notable works stimulating
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Monte Hellman's "Road to Nowhere" (and More)
David HudsonUpdated through 6/10. To Hellman and Back: An Evening with Monte Hellman is set for this evening at the Walter Reade Theater, and here's how the New York Times' Dave Kehr recommends you be there if
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Cineaste, DVDs, More
David HudsonTuesday, DVD roundup day, is a fine day for taking a look at the new Summer 2011 issue of Cineaste, particularly since, among the online samplings this time around, DVD reviews outnumber all other types
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Maurice Garrel, 1923 - 2011
David HudsonIn today's Libération, Didier Péron remembers Maurice Garrel, who passed away on Saturday at the age of 88. Father of producer Thierry Garrel and director Philippe and, of course, grandfather
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Uruphong Raksasad, Joe Swanberg, Summer Reads and More
David HudsonUpdated through 6/10. Colin Beckett: "Whether by design or circumstance, this June has become Thai Cinema Month in New York, with an array of the city's art houses and museums boasting otherwise hard
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"Micro-criticism" and "LACONIA"
David Hudson"There is a useful but not very respected mode of criticism — let's call it 'micro-criticism' — that is made possible by the Internet," writes Girish Shambu in an entry inspired
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"Submarine," "Beginners," "X-Men," Early Word on "Super 8" and More
David Hudson"With his Bud Cort haircut and morbid sensibility, Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts) is too smart for Swansea, Wales, an industrial city mired in some seriously mid-80s Thatcherite doldrums," begins Vadim