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Epilogue '08: Andrew Grant, R1
Andrew GrantGreetings Harry, Kevin, Nitesh, Edwin and Alexis. A belated happy new year to you all.Back in 2005 (how time flies!) I was a co-creator of The Conversation, a week-long discussion between film bloggers
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Epilogue '08: HarryTuttle, R1
Bonjour tout le monde, Andrew, who organised this with me, Kevin, Edwin, Nitesh and Alexis, as well as readers of the Notebook. Thank you for accepting the invitation and welcome to our first yearly trans
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Epilogue '08: Around the World of Cinema in 2008
Epilogue '08 is the final chapter of the year 2008. An online roundtable looking back one last time on the past year in films, after 2008 came to a close and every year-end poll and commentary has been
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Now on DVD: "Ride the High Country" (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)
Fernando F. CroceJohn Ford mourns the Western as a spectral soundstage (The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance), Sam Peckinpah goes outside to revive it, or at least give it a decent Viking funeral. The geriatric lawman (Joel
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Some Notes on "Made in U.S.A.": It's All True
David PhelpsMade in USA is, like about all Godard’s works, just a documentary of a time, of some places, of some people. A home movie bearing witness to 1967, politically, personally—and the two, here, are
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Two Visions of "Liliom": Frank Borzage, 1930; Fritz Lang, 1934
Glenn KennyThe Crystals' "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)" was not quite the last gasp of a certain strain of masochism in popular culture...but it can be usefully cited as probably the last time said strain
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The Forgotten: The English Assassin Assassinated
David Cairns"It's much easier to run a hospital with all the patients sleeping." “Easiest way to run the world, for that matter.” The Final Programme (1973), also known as The Last Days of Man on Earth, has a reasonable
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Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession": We poor devils.
Ryland Walker Knight"The angles are the director’s thoughts. The lighting is his philosophy."— Douglas Sirk We do not have to believe Sirk—we may desire to replace “the director” with “the film” for our purposes—but
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I Know A Place: Davies' "Of Time and the City"
Glenn KennyWhen Terence Davies' voice is first heard in his new film Of Time And The City, anyone who's never heard him speak before may be a little surprised. It is an uncommonly deep voice—authoritative, mellifluous
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The World of Wiseman: "High School" (1968)
Dave McDougallThe first in a continuing series on the films of Frederick Wiseman. "On the night of December 6th, police shot 15-year old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in cold blood in the Eksarhia district of Athens
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "The Go Between" (Losey, Pinter, 1971)
Glenn KennyI had intended to begin this appraisal of the film by discussing an impulse in late '60s British cinema (and, to a lesser extent, literary fiction; c.f. Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman) to break