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All posts by Peter Labuza
Video Essay: What Is Noir?
With the release of Peter Labuza's "Approaching the End: Imagining Apocalypse In American Film", The Critical Press has put together this video essay describing how the noir responds to classical Hollywood melodrama and continues to pervade today's movies. You...
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“They Live” and Apocalyptic Tech Noir
Editor's note: Today we're proud to present readers with an exclusive passage from Peter Labuza's upcoming book Approaching the End: Imagining Apocalypse in American Film. Be sure to pick up the book up when it comes out next week, October 14, from The Critica...
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NYC Top 5 (2/27-3/2)
New York City may get all the new releases first, but there’s a lot more to the film culture here than just what’s in the mainstream theaters! Every week we bring you the top 5 cinematic events to check out.
1.) The Films of Dan Sallitt (Anthology Film ...
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Intruding Spaces: Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love
In the films of Abbas Kiarostami, the frame is never just a frame—the world always extends beyond it. Sometimes that means a sound just off screen—the bells on a donkey, the banging of dishes in a kitchen, the whisperings of a couple. More often than not, this...
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NYC Top 5 (Week of 2/5/13-2/11/13)
New York City may get all the new releases first, but there’s a lot more to the film culture here than just what’s in the mainstream theaters! Every week we bring you the top 5 cinematic events to check out.
1. A Close-Up on Abbas Kiarostami (Film Socie...
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Distribute This Movie: ‘Sleepless Night’
Distribute This Movie highlights works in contemporary cinema that remain without a distributor in US Markets, in the hope to bring attention to these important works.
The utter simplicity of Jang Kun-Jae’s Sleepless Night, which played at part of the Museu...
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