The Noteworthy: Panahi Strikes Again, Assayas on Assayas, VIFF & NYFF Underway
NotebookPanahi completes another “effort” under house-arrest, Lincoln debuts at NYFF, Dennis Lim looks at the work of Ben Rivers & more…
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Images of the Day. Peter Kubelka's Monument Film sculpture
Daniel KasmanImages from an installation constituting Kubelka’s new film, Antiphon, Arnulf Rainer (1960), and the two combined.
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"I am a traveler of both time and space": Jean-Claude Rousseau's "Faux départ"
Alex HansenShowing how even the simplest of spaces have the possibility to surprise.
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Bernard Émond's "All That You Possess"
Sky HirschkronA standout amongst the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival’s world premieres.
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The Cosmic Squiggle: Don Hertzfeldt’s "It’s Such a Beautiful Day"
Kurt ShulenbergerAnimator Don Hertzfeldt traces a line through a darkly comic valley of existential dread.
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Movie Poster of the Week: The Posters of the 26th New York Film Festival
Adrian CurryA look back at the posters for departing festival director Richard Peña’s very first NYFF.
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A Land Imagined: A Conversation with Nicolas Rey
Daniel KasmanAbout Rey’s experimental 16mm feature, differently, Molussia, which adapts a book on totalitarianism the filmmaker has never read.
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The Forgotten: Aiming for the Heart
David CairnsAnarchist cartoonist Charles Boyer shoots movie songstress Gaby Morlay, and she falls in love with him. Well, he is Charles Boyer.
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Love in the Painted Image
Daniel KasmanFrom the New York Film Festival, David Gatten’s first work in digital video is a long form movie capturing painted images and broken texts.
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The Noteworthy: La Furia Umana + Wild Bill, NYFF, New Trailers
NotebookThis week’s essential film items include an incredible new issue of La Furia Umana, trailers for films by Van Sant and Park, and more.
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Cinema Sounding System
Daniel KasmanAn ingenious, claustrophobic dream film at the NYFF centers on a sound mixer helping produce a horrifically violent giallo.
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Clara Bow: Savage!
NotebookA wicked publicity still for John Francis Dillon’s 1932 pre-Coder, Call Her Savage, starring Clara Bow and shot by the great Lee Garmes.