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Something to be thankful for while they're still around: Magazines. Of course, in one form or another, there will likely always be magazine-like entities with editors and contributors whose work will appear in numbered issues. But with tablets on the horizon, followed at some point in the ...
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Christian Bale
" Liv Ullmann wasn't Ingmar Bergman 's muse, she was his partner in angst - a fellow weary existential traveler conspiring with him to invent some of the most psychologically complex men and women in cinema history." In the L Magazine , Benjamin Strong previews BAMcinématek 's Ullmann ...
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The Princess and the Frog
" The Lovely Bones , which was given its premiere last night at the Royal Film Performance in the presence of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, is a domestic tragedy that unfolds under a mushroom cloud of flamboyantly kitsch special effects," reports Wendy Ide in the London ...
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The Lovely Bones
Jason London
Alice
Peter Jackson
" Syndromes and a Century by Apichatpong Weerasethakul heads the tally of more than 50 films chosen as the best of the 2000s by TIFF Cinematheque , the year-round screening program of the Toronto International Film Festival," reads yesterday's release. "Joe" has another film in the top ...
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David Cronenberg
"In the traditional mythologies," begins Andrew Schenker in Slant , "two views of Orson Welles predominate, neither exactly flattering: the boy genius of the pre- Citizen Kane years, a fiery, arrogant wunderkind who cares for nothing except his art, unless it's the company of as many ...
Drama
Orson Welles
The Road
Richard Linklater
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I know what you're thinking, you foreign-DVD-mavens and
followers of the Eureka!/Masters of Cinema label out there,...
not that the two groups are in any way mutually exclusive. You're thinking, "Well, Eureka!/Masters of Cinema, you're all well and ...
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Tuesday Morning Foreign DVD (and Blu-ray Disc) Report: ...
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Death in the Garden (Luis Buñuel, Mexico/France, 1956) is now playing on The Auteurs in the US for free.
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Above: Don't forget your lipstick .
Luis Buñuel's reputation has been unvaryingly high for decades, and seems set to continue to soar, but an interesting dynamic is detectable ...
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One of filmmaker Ken Russell's misfortunes is that while his work is always appreciated, it's always his early work. When he was first making a splash with features in the seventies, British critics howled in outrage, often pointing back to his early BBC work, praising it, and using it as a ...
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If total artifice gave renegades like Avery, Fleischer, Jones, Oshii, a redoubt from which to craft their eccentric visions away from the plastic inadequacies of photographic realism, the post-Pixar, post- Star Wars ascendency of animation in all its forms offers new routes of total control ...
Animation
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
A Christmas Carol
Wes Anderson
Pixar
Star Wars
" The German " is returning to Germany. Even if only for a couple of weeks. " Werner Herzog , one of the most important filmmakers of Auteur Cinema, will be the President of the International Jury at the Berlinale 2010 ," begins yesterday's announcement. At the moment, he's in ...
Drama
Twilight
Werner Herzog
The Class
Since the Academy announced yesterday that it'd narrowed a list of 89 films qualifying to run the Documentary Feature race down to 15 (and if you'd like to get acquainted with those 15, Roger Erik Tinch 's list is a fine place to start), talk has centered not so much on the docs that have ...
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theauteurs.com - 6 days ago
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Lot of Awards: Okay, now I'm getting
confused. Who was it that said "Who gives a...
f**k about a goddamned Grammy"? Of course it was Public Enemy's Chuck D., but maybe it was also Eminem. In any event, it was certainly Public Enemy that got ...
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Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—20 November 2009
Like Aleksandr Sokurov 's The Sun (see yesterday's entry ), John Woo 's Red Cliff opens in New York today before traveling on to other US cities . "This $80 million epic - which is being touted as the most expensive Chinese-funded production to date, despite drawing investors from all ...
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Red Cliff
Tim Burton
John Woo
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases...” This gorgeous French poster for Jane Campion’s Bright Star (which doesn't open in Paris until January) is quite a departure from the canoodling big heads of John Keats and Fanny Brawne on the US one-sheet , though the title ...
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Jane Campion
January Jones
Who doesn't love the full-page grid in each issue of Film Comment tabulating ratings from eight critics for two dozen or so newish films? Whether it's stars and bombs, numerical or letter grades, or even thumbs, these pictograms can be somewhat helpful when they come from individual ...
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You don't have to wait until next summer's
face-off in South Africa for a little friendly global...
competition. Created and organized by our online community, The Auteurs World Cup pits national and regional cinemas against each other and lets you, the voter, pick the winners. A bit of ...
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The Auteurs World Cup 2009
theauteurs.com - 9 days ago
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A critic and enthusiast as old as myself
was feeling bad for director John Woo a few...
years back. The American-produced 2002 World War II epic Windtalkers , concerning Native American code-breakers, was both widely misunderstood and unfairly subject ...
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Blu-ray disc Report: "Red Cliff" ...
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"This perhaps is the first theme for the
2000s," proposes Michael J Anderson : "major filmmakers continuing...
their mastery, though perhaps not quite at the peak of their achievement." His global survey, culminating with his list of the "Ten Best ...
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Let the Wild Listings Start!
When critic David Ehrenstein told actor Sir Ian McKellen that there existed a photograph of actor Roddy McDowell ( How Green was My Valley , Planet of the Apes ) performing oral sex upon himself , the great stage and screen star's response was immediate: "Put it up on the internet!" he ...
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"The possibility of a digital, on-demand afterlife guarantees at least a theoretically universal long-tail immortality to blockbusters and curiosities alike. But this state of database nonoblivion is not the same as being held in memory. Which movies are sure to be remembered? Which ...
