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nextbook.org - 11/7/2008

Ceaseless Spirit

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The jam-packed films of Arnaud Desplechin

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theeveningclass.blogspot.com - 11/8/2008

A CHRISTMAS TALE—The Evening Class Interview With Arnaud Desplechin

— theeveningclass.blogspot.com — Like a bottle of champagne, Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale christened the launch of the San Francisco... Film Society's French Cinema Now series early last month. Desplechin flew in from France to take part in the festivities and earlier in the ... (more) A CHRISTMAS TALE—The Evening Class Interview With Arnaud ...

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blog.spout.com - 11/3/2008

A CHRISTMAS TALE Clip and IFC Series

— blog.spout.com — In the middle of Tom Hall’s interview with Arnaud Desplechin , director of my current favorite film... of the year A Christmas Tale , indieWIRE has embedded a clip from the film, which I’ve in turn stolen and embedded above. This ... (more) A CHRISTMAS TALE Clip and IFC Series

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Klawans on Desplechin.
GreenCine Daily — ... Klawans approaches Desplechin from another angle in Nextbook, where he argues that he's "contemporary cinema's most Jewish non-Jewish director." ...

Baggy like a house, and running away: Playing catch-up with Arnaud Desplechin’s My Sex Life... and Kings and Queen.
The House Next Door — ... Sex Life... should promise, mathematically at least, 688 ideas; I did not count, but it feels like there are more. That’s a lot to contend with, and it’s easier in the watching than in this writing, which is funny because Paul, our ostensible hero, opens the picture sleepwalking, refusing to finish his doctorate, refusing to write, because, well, just because: because it’s tough work. It’s easier to wallow in pretension and hurt than it is to do things. (And, as Stuart Klawans argues, Desplechin is perhaps the most Jewish non-Jew in cinema—and isn’t Judaism a religion of ...

Links for the Day (November 8th & 9th, 2008)
The House Next Door — ... Nick Pinkerton's take-down of Repo! The Genetic Opera makes me swoon. ["...a cloacal sludge of Guignol, compared to which watching "The Apple" is a cultural experience on par with hearing "Rigoletto" sung at the old La Fenice."] *** 4. Two by Klawans on Desplechin: at The Nation and Nextbook. (Via GreenCine.) ["We make time: by flirting or declaring a break, by observing holidays or arranging the passing ...