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On Godard’s “Band of Outsiders”
Kenji Fujishima writes about Godard's 1964 film "Band of Outsiders" on the eve of its NY re-release.
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Adult Beginners: “Breathless”
Alissa Wilkinson continues her Adult Beginners column with the French film "Breathless."
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Love Streams: When Serge Wrote Fairytales – “Anna” (1967)
Anna is a classic boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-posts-girl’s-picture-all-over-Paris type of film. Serge, a lovestruck photographer played by Jean-Claude Brialy, desperately looks for the girl he crossed paths with at a train station. Haunted by a photogr...
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Blu-ray Review: “Every Man for Himself”
Jean-Luc Godard’s so-called “second first film” isn’t really a patented return to zero, even if it does betray flashes of modern and postmodern references to Breathless. Techniques honed on video crop up throughout, and the tone is clearly that of an older, mo...
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Video Essay: Kevin B. Lee’s The Best Films of the Decade So Far
The people have spoken! Remember those half decade lists I was talking about and how the remarkable Kevin B. Lee started all this kerfuffle? Well, the esteemed video essayist has completed his daunting task in polling 290 film critics and cinephiles and the re...
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High and Know: On Stoned-Logic and the Expansion of the Stoner Film
In “Film Genre and the Genre Film,” Thomas Schatz lays down a few organizing principles that make up a film genre. Basically, there’s a system of conventions that over time eventually codify into “rules” that clearly identify a genre—think a Western with its r...
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“National Gallery”
Aside from Jean-Luc Godard, it’s hard to think of an octogenarian auteur who remains as vital and intellectually playful as 84-year-old documentary master Frederick Wiseman. Both are having banner years: first Godard with his astonishing, form-bending Goodbye ...
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“Goodbye to Language 3D”
Old French master Jean-Luc Godard's new film uses 3D like nothing else before it.
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The Man In a Room: Alex Ross Perry
Alex Ross Perry and I are at the tail end of a long discussion about his career when I finally ask him why his movies are so obsessed with loneliness. And then we talked about Paul Schrader.
Perry, 30, is speaking to me on the eve of the release of his thir...
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“Winter’s Sleep” Headlines Cannes Film Festival Winners
The coveted Palme d'Or prize for best picture was awarded today, and like most years at Cannes, there was no front-runner winner. Speculation had Leviathan, Mommy or perhaps even early awards favorite Foxcatcher as potential top honors out of all the festival ...
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