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Dziga Vertov: The Idiot
The Austrian Film Museum’s excellent DVD of Vertov’s Entuziazm affords the occasion for an insightful essay on the work of this legendary Soviet filmmaker
The Kinescope as Mirror: George Clooney Slyly Bites the Hand that Feeds Him
Good Night, and Good Luck as radical political cinema? Chamberlin astutely states the case for Clooney’s smuggler’s instinct for getting subversive political thought into mainstream
Regarding Bitter Victory: Hollywood’s Philoctetes in the Desert or La Politique des Comédiens
For many, the films of Nick Ray are a litmus test for the pros and cons of la politique des auteurs. This article provides the
The Magic of Risking Everything For a Dream Nobody Sees: Million Dollar Baby: The Shadow Film
A unique interpretation of Clint Eastwood's much-praised film that counters much of the more straightforward readings of the film as a humanist melodrama.
Draggin’ The River: The Ister
An essay that travels upriver from a viewing of this unique, probing film to that black sheep of twentieth century German philosophy, Martin Heidegger, and
This Little Piggy Went to Market: Slamdance X Film Festival
PARK CITY – An overwarmed room somewhere in the Sodom of the Wasatch. People are looking at me with dog-eyes. They flit them down to
Drought de Seigneur: Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur/Happiness (1965 France 79 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Parc Film Prod: Mag Bodard Dir, Scr: Agnès Varda Phot: Claude Beausoleil, Jean Rabier Ed:
It Came from the Mystic
Revenge, innocence and the search for lost time are among the many motifs touched upon in this bold and original exegesis of one of Eastwood's
Bertrand Tavernier
b. April 25, 1941, Lyon, France filmography bibliography web resources In his memoirs, he writes of his ambivalence towards the air raids. At first he
Emigrating to Madness: Despair (Eine Reise ins Licht)
Despair/Eine Reise ins Licht (1977 West Germany/France 119 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Bavaria Studios/La Societe Francaise de Production Prod: Peter Märthesheimer Dir: Rainer Werner
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