Dreyer Diary #1: "Joan"
Ryland Walker KnightThe Brooklyn Academy of Music will be 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
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Rendez-Vous with French Cinema: "35 Rhums", on the night shift
Ryland Walker KnightClaire Denis' cinema of elision typically works around an event, or an issue, to best conjure a concept or a tone or a metaphor or a theme or, even, an affect. In her newest narrative film, 35 Rhums
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Montage for Carl Th. Dreyer, part 4
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 she learns is that love simply exists
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Montage for Carl Th. Dreyer, part 3
David PhelpsThe Brooklyn Academy of Music will be running the Carl Th. Dreyer retrospective, appropriately and monolithically titled DREYER, from March 13 - March 31. *** "There were to be no horror scenes at all
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The Forgotten: Invaders From Beyond Time
David Cairns"It's a time machine." ~ Rod Taylor in The Time Machine. Chirgwin the White-Eyed Kaffir. Cupid at the Washtub. A Wayfarer Compelled to Disrobe Partially. Come Along, Dot. Upside Down, or The Human Flies
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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