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Kent Jones on “Hitchcock/Truffaut” and Opening Up Cinephilia
Kent Jones may be best known as a New York-based film critic and programmer, serving as the editor-at-large of Film Comment for a decade before eventually becoming the director of programming for the New York Film Festival. But Jones' love of cinema has manife...
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“Hitchcock/Truffaut” Functions As A Serviceable Primer
With Hitchcock/Truffaut, Kent Jones, one of our greatest living film critics and programmers, has once again forayed into documentary filmmaking. Hitchcock/Truffaut is adapted from a 1967 book of the same name written by François Truffaut—a book that has long ...
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The Savage Cinematic Beauty of Alexander McQueen
Striking compositions. Immaculate execution. Unapologetic provocations. It may sound like the work of a cinematic enfant terrible like Lars von Trier or Harmony Korine, but from the iconic bumsters to the horn adorned jackets to the infamous 12 inch scaled hee...
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Redone and Dumber: 5 Unnecessary Remakes
A lot of remakes get a bad wrap. There are some wonderful stories that for whatever reason (setting, format, an enduring quality) that yearn to be revisited. Michael Mann's L.A Takedown needed to be made into Heat; Brian De Palma and Al Pacino famously revisit...
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Opening Acts 1/19/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
1. Foxcatcher Subject Mark Schultz Recants Criticisms: 'I Was...
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History of Film: “Psycho”
Our survey of the 1960s concludes as Kevin Ketchum looks back at Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece.
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Hitchcock Inspired “Grand Piano” Bangs Its Drum To A Different, Wholly Unique Beat
Elijah Wood stars in the Magnolia produced thriller, "Grand Piano".
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Top 10 Stuck on Transportation Movies
All movies aim to transport us, but only a few do so by such literal means. In honor of the upcoming Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, here are, as far as I'm concerned, the top ten films that take place, at least mostly, within the confines of a single mode of t...
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How We Fell In Love With the Movies
'Tis the day of love, this February 14th, and thus we'll all be focusing on the loves that make our lives worth while, whether they exist or not. But no matter how many times your heart is broken by another person, you could at least always count on great movi...
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Top 10 Non-Franchise Spy Films
With Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit barreling into theaters this weekend, it seems Hollywood will never tire of attaching increasingly-nonsensical phrases onto their most popular spy franchises (Ghost Protocol? Quantum of Solace?); or, in the case of Jack Ryan, tho...
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