Montage for Carl Th. Dreyer, part 2
David PhelpsThe Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "Hands, which feel life, by which
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Montage for Carl Th. Dreyer, part 1
David PhelpsThe Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "What I seek in my films, what I
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Video of the day: Essential beauty, I thought.
Daniel KasmanDirected by David Lynch.
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Brighton Rock" (The Boulting Brothers, 1947)
Glenn KennyThere's a reason that 1947's Brighton Rock, produced by Roy Boulting, directed by John Boulting, and co-scripted by Graham Greene and Terrence Ratitgan, from Greene's novel, is rarely mentioned as one
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Ephemera from the cinema: Bancroft -> Beatty -> Ford
Daniel KasmanIt seems like one can trace a line back through movie male stardom, from Harrison Ford to Warren Beatty to, here, George Bancroft, of a kind of leading man who is, to put it kindly, dumb, dense as a pile
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New Rouge
Daniel KasmanJust in time for the warming weather is the latest issue of the best online film magazine in the world: Rouge.
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Shadow Foreplay to a Carl Th. Dreyer Montage
David PhelpsAbove: The Master, Carl Th. Dreyer. *** The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31
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"Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986;" Que-est-ce que c'est this avant-garde?
Glenn KennyWhat makes a film, or any work of art for that matter, avant-garde? Many of us do know that the literal translation of the French term means something along the lines of "ahead of its time," but very
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Now in theaters: "Everlasting Moments" (Troell, Sweden)
Martha PolkWith her acquisition of a Contessa camera and her nearly simultaneous marriage, from the outset the life of Maria Larsson (Maria Heiskanen) in Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments begs a question as paramount
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The Art of the Trailer: "Revolutionary Road"
Daniel KasmanThe trailer for Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road (2008) is particularly interesting because it utilizes one trend in contemporary trailers—relying on a pop song as a crutch to structure trailer rhythm, connote
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Quote of the day
Daniel KasmanManohla Dargis on serious movies.
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At the cinematheque: "Frontier of Dawn" (Garrel, France)
David PhelpsAbove: Louis Garrel, behind the camera, and Laura Smet in front of it, in Philippe Garrel's Frontier of Dawn. SPOILERS TO FOLLOW. As if in warm-up for its upcoming Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, BAM