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"What is it about the film Vertigo that compels people to pay $585 to take a ten-hour tour of the remaining landmarks and locations from that film (or, if they're on a budget, $285 for a five-hour tour)?" asks Caveh Zahedi in FilmInFocus . "According to tour guide Jesse Warr, Vertigo fans ...
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"As one of four featured artists of the Berkeley Art Museum's Bending the Word exhibition, [Martha] Colburn 's visionary (an overused adjective, but apt here) and frequently hilarious Myth Labs is playing in constant rotation in the museum gallery, but a special program at the adjoining ...
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"In its blunt, bludgeoning way, White Dog ranks among the toughest and most probing examinations of racism in American cinema," writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times . "[Sam] Fuller 's brute-force direction gives this outrageous allegory the hyperbolic treatment it demands." More from ...
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The Dennis
Filmmaker 's Scott Macaulay introduces the full list, with clips and links wherever possible: "The first wave of Sundance selections has just been announced by the festival with this list of filmmakers who will appear in the fest's New Frontier program. (Congrats to Filmmaker contributor ...
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The centerpiece of the new issue of Criticine is a survey conducted by editor Alexis A Tioseco : "The question was simple, the answers varied, the intentions - which need not be stated explicitly - plural. Criticine asks a number of film critics, teachers and those working in the field of ...
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Alexis Arquette
" Ballast , Frozen River and Rachel Getting Married led the field with six nominations each at the 2009 Film Independent 's 24th Annual Spirit Awards ," report Erin Maxwell and Michael Jones for Variety . "All three are in the running for best feature, best director and best female lead ...
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The editors of Cineaste introduce a critical symposium
on "Cult Film": "What initially drew our attention was
that not only did cult film turn up in our conversations with great frequency, it also arrived in numerous guises. Cult as shock and schlock; cult as nostalgia; cult as marginality; ...
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David D'Arcy on three films from Israel that screened at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam .
For all the bias that some Israelis say their country endures from the international press, Israeli documentaries are well-represented in international documentary festivals such ...
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Jason Gray caught Sono Sion 's "4-hour opus" Love Exposure at Tokyo Filmex and finds it to be "a twistedly ambitious, gonzo indie epic. After the last frame of film, two words came to mind - words that come only after movies with this much spirit... Bow down." And he points to Edmund Yeo ...
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You might start by taking it slow, with the photo essays , spiced here and there with a clip, at the site for Stephen M Weissman 's Chaplin: A Life .
More tips: Michael Tully 's got Benh Zeitlin and Court 13 's Glory at Sea , his favorite film of 2008.
The trailer for The Rising ...
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Mary Poppins
"Joy! In less than two months from now the International Film Festival Rotterdam will be in full swing again, albeit with a thoroughly changed programme format, when compared to previous years." Ard Vijn explains at Twitch .
" Anders Ostergaard 's Burma VJ - Reporting From a Closed ...
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"A witty meditation on the nature of film in popular culture taking in Felix the Cat , Homer Simpson , Titanic the movie and Philip Guston tonight helped Mark Leckey win what is still acknowledged as the country's most important contemporary art prize," writes Mark Brown in the Guardian . ...
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Interview 's just relaunched its site, turning what
was once a placeholder ad for the magazine into
a romping, content-rich and photo-heavy fun browse. Jack White talks with Cate Blanchett for the cover; Spike Lee interviews Martin Scorsese ; ...
Of the five lists of the "Best Films of 2008" in the new print issue of Artforum , two appear online: John Waters's and Stuart Comer 's. For Waters, the top spot's a tie between Woody Allen 's Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Christophe Honoré 's Love Songs , while Comer goes for Duncan ...
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"As with The Queen , screenwriter Peter Morgan
once again pits a Michael Sheen underdog against a
titanic adversary in Frost/Nixon , Sheen in this case embodying playboy cream puff British talk-show host David Frost , and his nemesis being Tricky Dick ( Frank Langella ), whom Frost famously ...
"During the making of The Reader , producers Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella passed away," writes the Hollywood Reporter 's Kirk Honeycutt . "This last film is a testament to the kind of productions each was associated with in his career."
"German author Bernhard Schlink 's ...
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Stephen Daldry
Slumdog Millionaire was the big winner at last night's British Independent Film Awards ceremony, picking up prizes for best film, best director ( Danny Boyle ) and Most Promising Newcomer ( Dev Patel ). Steve McQueen 's won the Douglas Hickox Award, Michael Fassbender won best actor and ...
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"Whatever else it may be, Jean-Luc Godard 's Histoire(s) du cinéma (now available on DVD from Artificial Eye ) does not resemble the afternoon bill at the old Plaza or the new Cineplex," writes Michael Wood in the London Review of Books . "This is a man who is making a video work that is a ...
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William Friedkin
"The 59th Berlin International Film Festival will open on February 5, 2009 with the world premiere of the British-German co-prodution The International . Directed by Tom Tykwer ( Perfume , Run, Lola Run ) and featuring a star-studded cast, the action thriller traces the criminal business ...
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The International
Eerie timing. Seetha Narayan 's piece "Terror masala" appeared in the Boston Phoenix on the very day that a militant group staged its deadly coordinated attacks in Mumbai : " Bollywood films' various depictions of terrorism are hardly naive, and their well-intentioned hyperbole is the very ...
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Cineaste. Winter 08.