The Monitor Mentality, or A Means to an End Becomes an End in Itself: Kathryn Bigelow's "Zero Dark Thirty"
Ignatiy VishnevetskyA portrait of modern warfare as self-perpetuating technocracy.
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Expressing the Move
Hoi Lun LawFrancois Truffaut, Tsai Ming-liang, and the “reverberation, ambiguity and suggestiveness” of the cinephiliac writerly impulse of “the move.”
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What is the 21st Century?: Frame-Rate Follies
Ignatiy VishnevetskyAfter a three year absence, the column returns with a look at The Hobbit’s 48 fps technology.
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Films by Lillian F. Schwartz
NotebookA selection of films from this director who has done pioneering work in computer-generated art.
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The Forgotten: Never Explain a Mystery, Never Wake a Sleepwalker
David CairnsThe surreal travels of a pearl, a thief, a sleepwalker, a young man and his lover. Watch the entire short film here!
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The Noteworthy: New Senses, Nick Ray's Master Class, The Brakhage Lectures
Adam CookNew Senses of Cinema, a Nick Ray doc Kickstarter, Truffaut’s alternate titles for The 400 Blows, Stan Brakhage lectures & more.
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Reverses #3
Daniel KasmanJerry Lewis gets stomped in Frank Tashlin’s Who’s Minding the Store? (1963).
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The Last Place You Look: "Bad Influence"
Zach CampbellHow a wild robbery scene unexpectedly and simultaneously expresses two approaches to cinematic genre.
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Movie Poster of the Week: Nicholas Ray’s “In a Lonely Place”
Adrian CurryThe various international posters for Bogart and Grahame’s doomed romance.
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So Dark
David CairnsA master detective falls in love and is then charged with locating his lover in this noir by Joseph H. Lewis showing in New York Saturday.
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The Forgotten: So Lonesome
David CairnsAn awe-inspiring and affecting performance by Maggie Smith is the center of this emotionally powerful drama from director Jack Clayton.
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The Noteworthy: Coppola's Comeback, McTiernan's Philosophy, Lynch's Hiatus
Adam CookSundance’s lineup, The New York Film Critics Circle Awards, The Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look series, new Shane Carruth, & more.