"Spring Breakers" or The American Way of Death
Celluloid Liberation FrontKorine’s last film is an a-temporal, sensorial trance staring in awe at the horror vacui of a lost, immor(t)al dream.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Salvatore Giuliano” and the Posters of Werner Gottsmann
Adrian CurryA selection of striking posters by a little-known East German designer.
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The Forgotten: Better Loving Through Science
David CairnsL’inhumaine is Marcel L’Herbier’s ultimate triumph of design over narrative, drama, logic, and life and death.
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The Noteworthy: Scorsese on "The Searchers", Film Criticism: The Next Generation, Orson Welles’ Sketch Book
Adam CookA couple of crowd-funding projects to check out, new trailers from Baumbach, Coppola, Malick and Whedon, Orson Welles’ Sketch Book & more.
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Some Violence Is Required: A Conversation With Pedro Costa
David JenkinsThe Portuguese maestro talks digital, film and DCP, early influences and teachers, David Fincher and filmmaking now.
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Romanian Orthodox: Cristian Mungiu's "Beyond the Hills"
Michael NordineCristian Mungiu’s film is a gorgeously austere and often exhilarating in its its slow-burning atmosphere of dread and sorrow.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “Crash Donovan”
Adrian CurryA terrific 1946 French affiche for a 1936 California Highway Patrol stunt-fest.
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The Forgotten: The Glove on the Mantelpiece
David CairnsJoan Crawford fights to get her man amid a sleek and glossy art deco world concocted by Cedric Gibbons at MGM, in Our Dancing Daughters.
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The Noteworthy: Lim Replaces Koehler, Bordwell's Sweet 16, Interviews with Ferrara, Karel & Klahr
Adam CookLots of news, photos by Patrick Swirc, a trio of interviews featuring Abel Ferrara, Ernst Karel and Lewis Klahr & more.
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Three Takes #1: Ernst Lubitsch’s "Design for Living"
Calum MarshA new column dedicated to short-form criticism. Each week, three writers offer capsules which engage with a classic or contemporary film.
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Harry Langdon or The Malady of Sleep
Noah TeichnerThis translation of a 1929 piece on Langdon is an exhilarating exercise in a deliriously subjective, free-form style of poetic film writing.
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Movie Poster of the Week: Richard Lester’s “The Three Musketeers”
Adrian CurryA contemporary-styled Polish disassemblage for Lester’s swashbuckling romp and an interview with its designer.