Barack Obama's Favorite Films
efeBarack Obama lists these films as some of his favorites. We usually think one's personal tastes are an insight into who they are. Do these say something about US' President-elect? (Source: Obama's Facebook
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Anatomy of Saul Bass
matthew swiezynskiSaul Bass titles on Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, 1959
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Comment on The Auteurs
Daniel KasmanCritic, scholar, translator, and all around great guy Paul Fileri writes, among other things, the Sites Specific column for Film Comment. For the Jan/Feb issue, Paul was kind enough to highlight The Auteurs
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Image for the weekend
Daniel KasmanFrom Night Train (Poland, 1959); featuring Lucyna Winnicka; directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz; cinematography by Jan Laskowski. Image courtesy of one of The Notebook's favorite blogs, sixmartinis and the
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László Szabó Remembers
Glenn KennyOn Friday, January 9, New York's Film Forum begins a two-week run of Jean-Luc Godard's legendary 1966 Made in USA, the director's final film starring his by-then ex-wife Anna Karina, an off-the-cuff
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Some notes on "Made in USA": Picasso (and life sliced)
David Phelps“Year Zero,” the term from Rossellini, might be Godard’s favorite mantra, signaled in Made in USA, stated throughout the ’70s, and situated neatly in the title of Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, his portrait
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The Curiosities of "Benjamin Button"
Daniel KasmanI'm mad as hell, and I'll take it a little longer! One of the most basic, but most defining features of David Fincher's short filmography is the relegation of melodrama essentially to a one-note psychic
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The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: 2008 Top Ten
Daniel KasmanEach of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit their ten favorite films of 2008 given at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S. The entries have been tabulated we have our first
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Now in theaters: "Silent Light" (Reygadas, Mexico)
Vadim RizovSilent Light is Carlos Reygadas' third and most overtly accomplished film; I also find it his least convincing. A healthy degree of skepticism is automatically called for whenever words like "elegiac
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The Forgotten: A Blind Reading
David CairnsYOU This image represents you. You are Maldone, an itinerant canal worker – surprising how many classic French films take to the waterways: L’Atlante, of course, and also Gance’s La Roue. (Britain offers
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Some notes on "Made in USA": Detective
David PhelpsOne of the greatest mysteries of Jean-Luc Godard’s Made in USA (1966) is just what the mystery is. Ex-journalist Anna Karina slinks around in a trenchcoat asking about an old lover who’s disappeared, is
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The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: David Phelps
David PhelpsEach of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a