Dreyer Diary #6: "Gertrud"
Ryland Walker KnightThe Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: Adventures In Aspect Ratios with Alain Resnais' "Muriel" (1963)
Glenn KennyCertain shots linger in the mind for reasons that are unquantifiable, unexplainable. For some reason this image of a casino at dusk, repeated, with slight variations, at a number of points in Alain
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Quote of the day
Daniel KasmanJean Epstein on happy endings.
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Dreyer Diary #5: "Master of the House"
Ryland Walker KnightThe Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
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The Details: Roberto Rossellini's "Il Generale della Rovere"
Daniel KasmanOur detail is a single shot done in a long-take from Rossellini’s 1959 film set in Genor during World War II.
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You Use Your Body To Die: An Interview With Steve McQueen
Zachary WigonAbove: Steve McQueen (left) directs Michael Fassbender's performance as Bobby Sands. As I wrote in my 2008 year in review piece here on The Auteurs, Steve McQueen's Hunger is one of the best films that
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Movie poster of the week: "Late Spring"
Adrian CurryOzu’s Late Spring has been on my mind again lately after seeing Claire Denis’s sublime reimagining 35 rhums…
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The Forgotten: Blood Libel
David CairnsMy Struggle Are some films best forgotten? The newly appointed Duke of Württemberg relaxes the laws preventing Jews from entering his city, so that he can borrow from moneylender Suss Oppenheimer
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Dreyer Diary #4: "Glomdale"
Ryland Walker KnightThe Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Percy" (Thomas, 1971)
Glenn KennyI see that at least one blog—not one specifically about movies—has been conducting some poll about the "Worst Movie Ever," or some such, and has, in so doing, engendered a lot of not-quite-argument in
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Dreyer Diary #3: "Ordet"
Ryland Walker KnightThe Brooklyn Academy of Music is running a Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. Here you will find my quick notes as I plunge in deep
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Mizoguchi on DVD III: "Women of the Night" (Mizoguchi, 1948)
David PhelpsPost-war, movies take notice—not for the first time, or last, but with the conviction that bearing witness can be an assault—of crowds and the weight of history. The two are intertwined, everyday concerns