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" 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 ...
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Twilight
Werner Herzog
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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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 ...
Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—20 November 2009
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Some Came Running
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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
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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theauteurs.com - 5 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 ...
Tuesday Morning Foreign Blu-ray disc Report: "Red Cliff" ...
theauteurs.com - 6 days ago
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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 ...
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 Forgotten
"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 ...
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The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Megan Fox
theauteurs.com - 9 days ago
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On The Evolution Of CinemaScope: Or, of you're
going to be a stickler about names of formats
and such, "The 2.35:1 Or So Aspect Ratio." Above: The Robe (Henry Koster, 1953). Above: Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958). Above: Le ...
Topics/Questions/Exercises Of The Week—13 November 2009
theauteurs.com - 8 days ago
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If anyone merits the “big head” poster treatment
so expertly parodied by Funny or Die it would
be everybody’s favorite movie star George Clooney. Lately, however, Clooney has started to disappear from his own posters: his eyes were obscured by the ...
Movie Poster of the Week: "Up in the Air"
"The Italian political landscape frequently makes our own look flat as a Kansas cornfield. Unsurprisingly, then, that the 13th edition of San Francisco Film Society's New Italian Cinema festival finds the political and personal mixing more frequently than you'd find in any assortment of ...
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The Dennis
While this season of taking stock finds us tinkering on our lists of the best films of the year - best of the decade, even - along comes a book that throws all our efforts into humbling perspective. Never mind years and decades. Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber ...
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François Truffaut: A Winter Portrait , running Tuesdays through December 22 at the French Institute Alliance Française in New York, showcases the less-heralded work of the 1970s. "The 'efficiency' of his output during the decade could be cause for quality-control concerns," writes Justin ...
Celebrities
Jerry Lewis
theauteurs.com - 7 days ago
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I. FESTIVALS AND IDEOLOGY "I cannot tell a
lie," writes Jonathan Rosenbaum in the catalogue introduction to
the retrospective on American film comedy he curated for this year's Viennale (in collaboration with the ...
Viennale 2009: Not Just Another Fest in the Crowd
With the fragments of Henri-Georges Clouzot's never-completed L'enfer (1964) finally gathered together and released as part of the making-of/unmaking-of documentary Inferno (2009), now seems a good time to revisit Clouzot's last feature, the criminally neglected La prisonnière (1968).
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The Forgotten
theauteurs.com - 12 days ago
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As I write, the city I live in,
Berlin, is throwing a party for itself. As it
should. Few events in the lifetimes of most of us deserve to be celebrated as heartily as the fall of the Wall. And while I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade (I ...
The Auteurs Daily: Shorts, 11/9.
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