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Why Michelle Pfeiffer Deserves a Career Comeback
Nearly every year brings news of a comeback or return-to-form for a major film actor. Last year’s Birdman brought renewed appreciation and a long-overdue Oscar nomination to Michael Keaton. Bruce Dern got a late-career highlight the year before with Nebraska. ...
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On Johnnie To At Age 60
Today marks the 60th birthday of the world’s most exciting filmmaker, Johnnie To. The Hong Kong master enters his seventh decade more popular than ever, riding a wave of critical support with Drug War, his first film released in the West in years, as well as e...
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Claire Denis
by Darren Hughes and Michael Leary
Darren is a communications professional and freelance writer in Knoxville, TN. He’s a longtime contributor toSenses of Cinemaand MUBI’s Notebook and blogs on occassion at longpauses.com. Michael is co-editor ofFilmwell and h...
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“Dior and I”
The challenge: designing a couture collection for the legendary high fashion brand Christian Dior. The contender: Raf Simons, the newly appointed artistic director at the House of Dior. Time: eight stressful weeks in the spring of 2012. The output? That's like...
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Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado on “The Salt of the Earth”
For decades, Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado has been one of the most celebrated social photographers in the world. He gets his due in the new documentary The Salt of the Earth, which both recounts his life and work, and uses both as a lens through...
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How to Survive a Plague: On the Resonance of “India’s Daughter”
Over the past two weeks, the Indian government has been fighting with the BBC over a documentary titled India’s Daughter, in a tussle that keeps revealing new facets with every passing day. At the time of writing, there is debate about, among other things, the...
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So Your Festival Darling Was Bought By Harvey Weinstein
Congrats, lucky filmmaker! Your film was purchased for a record high at a prestigious film festival, and the receipt bears the signature of none other than Harvey Weinstein. Last year at the Berlin Film Festival, Weinstein purchased the U.S. rights to The Imit...
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“Amour Fou”
“He has a rather melancholic disposition,” says one woman about the young 19th-century poet Heinrich von Kleist (Christian Friedel) in the opening minutes of Amour Fou. It’s an observation that can only be described as a gross understatement when considering t...
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An Ode to Jack Burton
Today is the 64th birthday of actor Kurt Russell. A glorious man who built his career on Disney Pictures and becoming John Carpenter's John Wayne. That dissonance between action hero and Disney star gives example to the diverse skill set Russell had all throug...
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“Two Men in Town”
Frustratingly close to being something very special indeed, Rachid Bouchareb’s Two Men in Town boasts a painterly visual sensibility and some of the more nuanced performances this killer cast has delivered in quite some time. The mood of the film is deliberate...
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