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April 28, 2020

Handling Death Rather Well: Alexander Payne's The Descendents (2011)

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Open Culture

How Else Marie Pade, a Prisoner in World War II, Became Denmark’s First Female Electronic Composer - Before she became a composer of electronic music, Else Marie Pade was a sick child listening to the radio. Frequent kidney inflammations consigned her to b...
2 hours ago
Film Experience Blog

TIFF 51: Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden” is the best film of the year, bar none - by Cláudio Alves Everyone gets to vote for the TIFF People’s Choice Award, even the press. And while I can’t reveal some personal award votes later in th...
8 hours ago
The Sheila Variations

From the archives (2004): Chicago: The Cold Extreme - The Cold Extreme I lived at a drafty apartment on Ashland with my dear friend Mitchell. A 3rd floor walk up, with hard-wood floors, big old windows, on the...
21 hours ago
SHADOWPLAY

Here is Terror - We’re doing this on Saturdays now? Apparently so. I haven’t been blogging so much, big project on and I’m back teaching on Monday. But I hope to be spewing...
5 days ago
Jonathan Rosenbaum

On William Pechter - *From Film Comment, July-August 1982. — J.R. * *Movies Plus One* by William S. Pechter, 246 pp., index, Horizon Press, $14.95. Ever since certain Am...
6 days ago
The Daily Notebook

It Was Once Fire: A Locarno Critics Academy Correspondence - *Notebook, in partnership with the Locarno Critics Academy, presents a series of critical correspondences in which this year's participants look back at ...
2 weeks ago
FirstShowing.net

First Teaser for Alex Gibney's 4-Hour 'Musk' Documentary About Elon - "He's a man who has lost his mind." Bleecker Street has revealed the first official trailer for the powerful new documentary film titled simply Musk, about...
2 weeks ago
indieWIRE News

‘Musk’ Teaser: The Wealthiest Man in the World Becomes Alex Gibney’s Latest Documentary Subject - Bleecker Street will release the documentary in theaters on October 16.
2 weeks ago
The Front Row

Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “The Breakup,” “All Them Dogs,” “Sex and Dissent,” and “We Want to Believe.”
2 weeks ago
FlixChatter

FlixChatter Review: AppleTV’s MAYDAY—Branagh + Reynolds’ Cold War buddy comedy is an amusing 80s throwback - Images courtesy of AppleTV I hadn’t come across this movie or even seen the trailer until I caught Kenneth Branagh promoting it on the TODAY show. The Iris...
2 weeks ago
International Film Studies

ENG 102 2026: Resources Archive #16 - "Every day I see or I hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It is what I was born fo...
2 weeks ago
Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur

A Hard Grape To Grow - Some memories stay with you, like it or not. I can still remember where I was and what I was doing when it happened. In morning traffic, heading from my a...
3 weeks ago
Observations on film art and FILM ART

The Film Art of animation: A review - Paul Taberham’s impressive study of film animation was released earlier this month. The title brings to mind a major concern of David Bordwell in studying ...
4 weeks ago
KINO SLANG

- may day The Verdict And the juror, once a fishwife in the market, springs to her feet. THE FISHWIFE So, after all You've found ...
4 months ago
Thanks for the Use of the Hall

2025 Theatrical Releases - I kind of have a good excuse for missing so many one-week theatrical releases this year, as I shot a movie in October and have been editing it. But that ...
8 months ago
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule

SEAN BAKER'S (AND MIKEY MADISON'S) ANORA - Way back in May it was that Patty, Emma and I drove to the SEE Film Multiplex in Bremerton to take in *I Saw the TV Glow*, and while there I took a ...
1 year ago
mentorless

DIY Cinematography – How to Get Professional Results With Limited Gear - In cinematography, you don’t need a million-dollar budget to make something look good. In fact, you can probably find everything you need lying around yo...
2 years ago
Coffee coffee and more coffee

The Carpetbaggers - Edward Dmytryk - 1964 KL Studio Classics BD Region A There is an inspired moment in The Carpetbaggers where the camera rests on the entry to a bathroom in ...
2 years ago
Some Came Running

Summer 2023 Blu-ray/4K Ultra Consumer Guide - Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display, Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. Angel Face (Warner Archive Blu-ray) Of all the amour ...
3 years ago
Self-Styled Siren

National Silent Movie Day: Manhandled (1924) - Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, is National Silent Movie Day. New York City's beloved Film Forum is celebrating with a screening of Allan Dwan's 1924 silent...
4 years ago
The Sartorialist

Fortezza da Basso, Florence -
6 years ago
girish

Hidden Histories: The Story of Women Film Editors - *I've written an essay for Criterion on women film editors. It was inspired by Su Friedrich's website, Edited By, a wonderful, invaluable labor of love d...
6 years ago
Film Studies For Free

Afore Ye Go, 2019: Essential Tributes (Elsaesser, Wollen, Lindner) Plus Favourite-of-the-Year Open Access Resources - FALLING: 3 x *Girls in Uniform* A comparative videographic study by Catherine Grant showcasing the repetitions and variations across two sets of correspo...
6 years ago
CINEBEATS

John Hughes vs. Shane Meadows: This Is England (2006) - As someone who came of age during the 1980s, I’ve become increasingly disturbed by the critical response to director John Hughes’ recent death. Over and ov...
17 years ago

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