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Cannes 2014 Releases Official Selection Lineup
After sifting through 1,800 unique submissions, the Cannes film festival has finally released its official selection lineup of 49 films. The following will continue to be updated as they announce more titles. It should be noted that the prestigious festival, w...
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The Second Criterion: “Breathless”
The definitive film of the French New Wave, Breathless set the bar for everything that was to come. Nothing since has drastically changed the way films are concocted quite like this 1960 gem. For all its many accomplishments, the film itself is a miserable aff...
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‘A Girl and a Gun’ Is Not Nearly Enough (Sorry, Jean-Luc Godard)
Opening one week after Paul Feig’s The Heat – in which Mellissa McCarthy kept her refrigerator stacked with firearms that she ultimately shared to our delight with Sandra Bullock – Cathryne Czubek’s documentary A Girl and a Gun comes in handy as an introductio...
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‘Frances Ha’
The opening credits of Noah Baumbach’s last feature, 2010’s Greenberg, play over lingering shots of the film’s co-star Greta Gerwig as she drives around Los Angeles to the tune of Steve Miller Band’s “Jet Airliner”. The shot is unbroken, in profile and close u...
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