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note that some of the links below may have now 'expired' or been moved. |
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| April
2008 |
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Sight & Sound
Mizoguchi Kenji:
Artist Of The Floating World. |
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The Guardian
Master manipulator: Michael Haneke's
shot-for-shot remake of his own torture thriller sets out to
critique US film violence. But hasn't he just become everything
he hates? |
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indieWIRE
Profile: "My Blueberry Nights" Director
Wong Kar-Wai. |
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LA Weekly Manoel de
Oliveira: A Man for All Seasons. As he prepares to celebrate
his centenary, nothing can stop the Portuguese director. |
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Time Out
Park Chan-wook interview. |
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Senses of Cinema
Nina Menkes: The Warrior
and her Jiang Hu. |
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Cinema-Scope
Trainspotting with
James Benning. |
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Close-Up Film
Brian De Palma talks about
Redacted. |
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Film
Comment |
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Film
International
Sergei Eisenstein and the Cine-Eye. |
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| March
2008 |
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Bright
Lights Film Journal
Peter Watkins and the Politics of
Expression. |
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Pop Matters The Grand Tension of
Peter Watkins. |
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Time Out The genius of
Derek Jarman. |
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The
Boston Phoenix
Separate Ways:
Ritwik Ghatak at the
Harvard Film Archive. |
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Cineaste
Contemplating Status and Morality
in Cassandra's Dream: An Interview with
Woody Allen. |
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Cineuropa Interview with
Carlos Saura. |
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Close-Up Film A Short Piece About
Kieslowski. |
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Filmmaker The Director Interviews: Ramin Bahrani,
Chop Shop. |
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GreenCine
Tony Gilroy and His "Parallel Universe Thriller". |
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The Guardian 'Films are a way to kill my father':
After decades of analysis,
Bernardo Bertolucci has a new take on his 1970 classic
The Conformist. |
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| February
2008 |
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Film
Comment Fresh Meat: |
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Village Voice Next
Generation: Bridging worlds and eras,
Olivier Assayas is uniquely of
his (our) time, |
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Sight & Sound Brothers in Harm: Veteran director
Sidney Lumet is back in the hot
seat with a heist thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. |
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GreenCine
Gregg Araki's Stoner
Comedy. |
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The Guardian
A camera instead of a rifle:
Combining real and staged footage, Overlord is a remarkable
account of D-Day. Director Stuart Cooper explains his debt to
the film-makers who followed soldiers into battle. |
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indieWIRE Interview with 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2
Days Director Cristian Mungiu. |
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| January
2008 |
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Sight & Sound The Road
Goes On Forever: Wim Wenders' early
films use the language of American cinema to express a
sensibility that's inescapably European. |
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Bright Lights Film Journal
Beyond the Fifth Generation: An
Interview with Zhang Yimou. |
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Senses of Cinema Fast Worker: The Films of Sam
Newfield. |
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The
Boston Phoenix
Shohei Imamura: The Anti-Ozu. |
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Cinema-Scope
Songs Sung Blue:
The Films of Michael Robinson. |
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Filmmaker The Great Debater: Interview with
Denzel Washington. |
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GreenCine John Sayles:
"I Want My Characters to Be Like Your Friends." |
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The Guardian
Down with the Kids: First there was
Elephant, about the Columbine High School massacre, and
now Gus van Sant has made
Paranoid Park, about a young skateboarder. |
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Midnight Eye Interview
with Koji Wakamatsu. |
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Rouge
Pretending that life has no meaning: Interview with
Paul Schrader. |
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December
2007 |
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Cineaste
Avoiding Labels and Lullabies: An
Interview with James Mangold. |
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Film
Comment A Blast from the Past:
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Filmmaker Reaching Out: 10 Years of grassroots
casting for John Sayles. |
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GreenCine
Charles Burnett Celebrates a
Milestone. |
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The Observer Who does Bob think
he is?: There are six - or is it seven? - 'Dylans' in
Todd Haynes's I'm Not There. The
director talks exclusively to Sean O'Hagan about the weirdest
rock biopic ever. |
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indieWIRE Interview with Julian Schnabel, director of
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. |
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IonCinema!
Interview: Noah
Baumbach - Margot at the Wedding. |
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MovieMaker
Francis Ford Coppola: Exclusive Video
Interview. |
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Reverse Shot
Gus Van Sant Feature. |
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Village Voice Senegal's Son:
For Ousmane Sembène, an
icon of African cinema, the personal was always political. |
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November
2007 |
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Sight & Sound
Robert
Bresson: Alias Grace. |
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Filmmaker
The Director Interviews: Julien
Temple, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten. |
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GreenCine
Catching Up with Christoffer Boe. |
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The Guardian
'Film-making is an adventure': Shekhar Kapur's
film Elizabeth was a critical and commercial success that
broke all the conventions of costume drama. Can he repeat the
trick with its sequel? |
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IonCinema!
NYFF Interview:
Catherine Breillat. |
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LA Weekly Robert Redford and the façade of a nation. |
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Midnight Eye Paul
Verhoeven Like It: Takashi Miike
at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. |
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MovieMaker
John
Carpenter's Business of Insanity:
With five remakes of his
work in two years,
John Carpenter
is happily riding the Halloween gravy train. |
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Time Out Interview with
Michael Haneke. |
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The
Boston Phoenix
Wes Anderson
talks about India, Owen, and the short. |
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October
2007 |
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The Guardian
'Storytelling was his life's elixir': Crime reporter,
screenwriter, soldier, director - Sam
Fuller was a lot of things. But whatever he did, he was
foremost a master yarn-spinner, his friend
Wim Wenders remembers. |
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Film
Comment |
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Film International
From Short Story to Film to
Autobiography: Intermedial Variations in
Ingmar Bergman's Writings and
Films. |
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Filmmaker
Last Man Standing:
After making only two features,
Andrew Dominik deserves to be recognized as one of the most
exciting and talented writer-directors working today. |
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GreenCine
Béla Tarr's Man from London
interview. |
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indieWIRE Interview with "Lust,
Caution" Director Ang Lee. |
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IonCinema!
Interview with Johnnie To (Exiled). |
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Sight
& Sound A World
Without Pity: A Mighty Heart, based on Mariane Pearl's
memoir of the kidnap of her journalist husband Daniel, completes
a trilogy of films by Michael
Winterbottom that probe the post-9/11 world. |
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Cineaste Making Friends
the Hard Way: An Interview with
Patrice Leconte. |
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Cinema-Scope
The Stubborn Utopian: The Films of
Alexander Kluge. |
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September
2007 |
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Senses of Cinema "Me, I Just Film My Life": An
Interview with Jonas Mekas. [
Jonas Mekas.com ] |
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Reverse Shot
An Interview with
Volker Schlöndorff. |
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Roger Ebert.com
Fighting over
Bergman's legacy. |
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Screening the Past
Douglas Sirk’s
Theatres of Imitation. |
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Time Out
Ken Loach interview. |
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Village Voice Scotland Bard:
Bill Douglas filmed life as it
was: hard, bleak, cruel. |
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Bright Lights Film Journal
Silent Light or Absolute Miracle: An
Interview with Carlos Reygadas at Cannes 2007. |
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Sight
& Sound Love in the
afternoon: D.H. Lawrence's iconic tale of unbridled passion has
had many interpreters. But none has captured its title
character's sensual awakening as effectively as Pascale Ferran
in Lady Chatterley. |
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The Boston Phoenix
Michelangelo Antonioni
1912-2007 |
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Close-Up Film
God’s Lonely Man: An Interview with
Paul Schrader. |
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| August
2007 |
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The Guardian
Ingmar
Bergman 1918-2007. |
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indieWIRE The Start of a
Journey: An Appreciation of Ingmar
Bergman. |
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The
New York Times In Art’s Old Sanctuary, a
High Priest of Film. |
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Cineuropa Interview with Jaco Van Dormael. |
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Film Comment Steve Buscemi
Uncut: T |
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Filmmaker
Survivor: With Rescue Dawn
director Werner Herzog returns to
the jungle to adapt one of his most powerful documentaries,
Little Dieter Needs to Fly. |
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GreenCine Philip Haas:
Understanding the Situation. |
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IonCinema!
Interview: Shane
Meadows. |
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Kamera
International man of mystery:
David Lynch. |
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MovieMaker Henry Jaglom's Moment of Truth:
Film's freest director
dissects the Hollywood machine in Hollywood Dreams. |
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| July
2007 |
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Sight & Sound
Ken Russell:
Sweet Swell of Excess. |
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Film Monthly Michael
Bay Transforms Very Well. |
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Film-Philosophy (pdf)
Hitchcock and Hume Revisited: Fear, Confusion and
Stage
Fright. |
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Filmmaker You Don’t
Know Jack: In Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis,
Mary Jordan takes us into the mind of one of the forgotten
geniuses from the 1960s New York avant-garde scene. |
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GreenCine “The
Structure of Human Life”: Kim Ki-duk. |
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The New York Times
Edward Yang, 59,
Director Prominent in New Taiwan Cinema, Is Dead. Plus,
Remembering
Edward Yang
(Village
Voice). |
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The Boston Phoenix
Keeping it Real: Sticking to the
facts in a post-9/111 world,
Michael Winterbottom and
Paul Greengrass lead a new breed of filmmaker. |
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Cinema-Scope Beyond
Brut: The Art of Cornel Wilde. |
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| June
2007 |
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LA Weekly
The Devil May Care:
William Friedkin on
Bug,
Cruising and nights at
the opera. |
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Midnight Eye
Eiichi Kudo's Guerrilla Filmmaking. |
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Reverse Shot
An
Interview with Sarah Polley. |
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Village Voice
Cannes and Abel:
Talking With The Go Go Tales Director. |
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Bright Lights Film Journal
The Mothering of Evil: In Several
Hitchcock Films. |
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Senses of Cinema
The
Low-Key Jester: An Interview with
Andrew Bujalski. |
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Cahiers
du Cinema Danièle
Huillet (1936-2006), A Materialist Filmmaker. |
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Cinema-Scope Killing
Time: The Economical Diversity of Johnnie To. |
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Cineuropa Interview
with Béla Tarr. |
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Film Comment Films of Ruin and Rapture:
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| May
2007 |
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GreenCine
Jean Renoir: Master of
the Game. |
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LA Weekly
Death, Landscape
and Raymond Carver:
Ray Lawrence maps the human heart. |
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Midnight Eye
Interview with Nobuhiro Yamashita. |
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Off Screen
Eisenstein: ‘Intellectual Montage’,
Post-structuralism, and Ideology. |
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Reverse Shot
An
Interview with Andrea Arnold. |
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Sight & Sound
You Must Be Joking: Roberto
Rossellini was initially known as a neorealist , but was
among the first to break towards a life-celebrating spiritual
cinema with Francis, God's Jester. |
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Close-Up Film Not Such a Still Life:
Peter Fraser interviews
Terence Davies one of Britain's
most impressive auteurs, as his 1989 film Distant Voices, Still
Lives is re-released. |
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Film Monthly Sam Raimi
Talks Spider-Man 3... And Beyond. |
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The Guardian Just
say Noah: Darren Aronofsky finally got eternal-life epic The
Fountain made through sheer belief. Now he's turning to the
Bible to resurrect another great survivor. |
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| April
2007 |
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Cinema-Scope
Inside/Out: A Modest Proposal Concerning
William A. Wellman. |
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Cineaste
The Cinema of
Peter Watkins. |
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Close-Up Film
Interview with Agnès Varda on the
Restoration of "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg." |
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Film Comment
School of Hard Knocks:
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Film Monthly
Mira Nair
Returns To Her Roots. |
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Filmmaker Susanne Bier interview. |
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Flickhead “This
is a movie…isn’t it?”: Henry Jaglom x 3 on DVD. |
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GreenCine
Jafar
Panahi and the Rules of the Game. |
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The Guardian Topo
the world: If only Jodorowsky had been allowed to make more
movies. John Patterson salutes the hippy genius who was never
trusted by the suits. |
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kamera
Emerging from the shadows: Nick Bicanic has made one
of the greatest documentaries that you might never see. |
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| March
2007 |
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Sight & Sound
Degraded Dupes
Steven Soderbergh. |
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Time
Out
The directors: Steven
Soderbergh. |
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Film Monthly
Michael Apted Has 'Grace' In New
Epic. |
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GreenCine
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The Guardian
'I figured I'd retire gradually,
just ride off into the sunset ...' Interview with
Clint Eastwood. |
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Midnight Eye Mikio
Naruse: A Modern Classic. |
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Offscreen The
Video Work of Jean Pierre Lefebvre. |
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Senses of Cinema
American Triptych: Vidor,
Hawks and
Ford. |
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| February
2007 |
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Rouge
Things to Look Into: The Cinema of
Terrence Malick. Also
recommended. |
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Sight & Sound Sleeping with the Enemy:
Paul Verhoeven. |
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Film Monthly Noonan's
No Babe In The Woods. |
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Filmmaker
Open Your Eyes: Experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer
looks back on her thirty-plus years in film. |
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GreenCine
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The Guardian
'He is fun and he is bright': The
Oscar-nominated director of
United 93 has no qualms about Hollywood. |
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Undercurrent (FIPRESCI)
Max Ophüls's Adaptation to and Subversion of Classical
Hollywood Cinema and Their Effect on his European Filmmaking. |
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Offscreen The Rules of His Game:
Schrader's Canon. |
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Village Voice
Kenneth Anger Comes Home:
Five shorts, one
mindblowing DVD, and your couch. |
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The
Boston Phoenix
Rain Man: The lingering gaze of Béla Tarr. |
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| January
2007 |
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Reverse
Shot Junk Art: Brian
De Palma. |
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Kamera Cult
Files: An interview with Mark Lester. |
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Midnight Eye
Katsuhiro Otomo: The man behind the epoch-making Akira
sits down for an exclusive interview about his latest film
Bugmaster. |
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MovieMaker
Shaker of Souls:
Mexican
director of
Amores Perros creates another emotional earthquake with
Babel. |
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Offscreen
Good Day and Good Night: A
Conversation with Filmmaker Julia Loktev. |
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Screening the Past
Ticket to ride:
Claire Denis and the cinema of the
body. |
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Slant Magazine
Mirror Mirror: The Films of
Jacques Rivette. |
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Sight & Sound
British Cinema Now: The Lost
Leader. |
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Cineaste
The Art of Memory:
Andrzej Wajda's Three War Films. |
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Cinema-Scope
A Fragmented
Epistemology:The Films of Abderrahmane Sissako. |
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December
2006 |
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Village Voice A
Critics' Duet on Nashville:
Remembering Robert
Altman through the words of Voice critics past. |
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The Observer Showman and shaman: From M*A*S*H to
country-house murder, the maverick
from Kansas followed his own star, says Philip French,
delighting us and changing the course of cinema along the way. |
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indieWIRE Saluting a Maverick Filmmaker,
Robert Altman: 1925 - 2006. |
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Film International
Charles Warren discusses the links between
Robert Altman,
John Cassavetes, and American
philosopher Stanley Cavell. |
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Sight & Sound Girl Interrupted:
Guillermo del Toro's
Pan's Labyrinth creates a beautiful and terrifying
fantasy netherworld for the young girl at its centre. Could it
be an update of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Mark
Kermode asks the director. |
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Senses of Cinema
Dziga Vertov: The Idiot. |
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Film Monthly
Interview: Aronofsky's Fountain of Love. |
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Filmmaker
Interview: Richard
Linklater’s new film is an affectionate comedy that
critiques American corporate culture by telling the stories of
the working class people it most often neglects. |
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GreenCine Tales from the Brothers Quay. |
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Undercurrent (FIPRESCI)
Danièle Huillet
1936-2006: A Tribute. |
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November
2006 |
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indieWIRE Interview:
Barbara Kopple, co-director of
"Shut Up & Sing". |
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Filmmaker
James Ponsoldt talks with Kelly Reichardt about
Old Joy |
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The Guardian 'This is
seat-of-your-pants stuff': Who says film has to be a costly,
lumbering beast? Mike Figgis is
capturing the capital with cheap cameras and a trumpet. |
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Midnight Eye
Interview with director Takashi Yamazaki. |
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MovieMaker
Requiem for a Dreamer: Michel Gondry explores The Science of
Sleep. |
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Pop Matters
Beautiful Freaks:
Frequently presenting people living cruel and impossible lives,
Lech Kowalski's films observe in detail how they navigate their
existence, successfully or not. |
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Reverse Shot Nicolas Winding Refn: An Interview. |
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Time
Out
Alan Bennett: Interview. |
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October
2006 |
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GreenCine
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Rouge
Erice-Kiarostami:
The Pathways of Creation. |
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Sight & Sound I'm Not A Political Filmmaker
Goddamit!: Interview with Oliver Stone. |
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BBC
The
co-directors of Echo Park LA on making a film in the
blink of an eye (Video Interview). |
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BBC: Calling the Shots
Interview with
Ridley Scott. |
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The Boston Phoenix
John Huston: Reflections on a
Golden Filmmaker. |
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Cinema-Scope
Scratch That Itch: William
Friedkin on Bug. |
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Film Comment
Paul Schrader: The Book I Didn't Write. |
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Film International
Resurrecting Horror: "Rottweiler" and the Fantastic Films of
Brian Yuzna |
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Film Monthly
Guillermo Del Toro/Pan’s Labyrinth Interview. |
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September
2006 |
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Senses of Cinema
Otto Preminger and the End of
Classical Cinema. |
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Undercurrent In an excerpt
from his forthcoming book on
Alexander Dovzhenko, author Marco Carynnyk weaves biography
and analysis in a consideration of the sources and patterns of
Dovzhenko's
Earth. |
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LA Weekly Not
of this Earth: American Cinematheque fetes
Roger Corman at 80. |
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MovieMaker
Master of the Universe:
Director Frank Coraci has the world in the palm of his hand. |
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Village Voice
In Living Color:
Tashlin's eye-popping '50s
artifacts pile on gags like live-action Looney Tunes. |
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Slant Magazine
Tashlin. |
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Bright
Lights Film Journal
"How My Brain Works": An Interview with Michel Gondry. |
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British Film
Institute
Carol Reed Centenary. |
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Close-Up Film
Pedro Almodóvar chats about Volver. |
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Filmmaker
Check Your Head: Two years after his short film about a
drug-addicted inner-city teacher won Sundance, Ryan Fleck
returned with his feature-length adaptation of that story,
Half Nelson. |
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| August
2006 |
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Sight & Sound Songs For
Swinging Lovers:
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
may be a long-established name to the cognoscenti, but his work
is still little known in the UK. Three Times, his
exquisite new tripartite film, is about to change all that. |
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Off Screen The
Great Artist, the Little Fellow: Reading
Charlie Chaplin and James Agee. |
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Reverse
Shot
Robert Altman: An Interview. |
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Rouge
Dziga Vertov: Storyboard. |
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Slant Magazine Flesh and Desire:
The
Films of Frank Borzage. |
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Close-Up Film
Urban Heroes/Urban Monsters:
The Cinema of
Martin Scorsese. |
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Future Movies North &
South: Acclaimed director Laurent Cantet discusses his new film,
Heading South. |
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Bright
Lights Film Journal
Four Films in Search of an
Author: Egoyan Since Exotica. |
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Film
Comment
Elaine
May in Conversation with Mike
Nichols. |
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The Guardian
Where angels fear to tread: No subject could be more
sensitive and difficult to film than the destruction of the
World Trade Center. But after a particularly bad run in
Hollywood, director Oliver Stone
has everything to play for.
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| July
2006 |
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Off Screen
The "Cult" of
Kubrick. |
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Cinema-Scope
Richard Kelly's Revelations: Defending Southland Tales. |
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Filmmaker
Agent Provocateur: With The
Outsider, cinematic bad-boy James
Toback gets in front of the camera for first-time filmmaker
Nicholas Jarecki. |
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GreenCine
. |
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The Guardian Man on
the moon: Women with a fetish for smelling rice, people shot
through plugholes and now a musical about a prince and a raccoon
in love. Dare you enter the extraordinary world of film-maker
Seijun Suzuki? |
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indieWIRE Interview:
Larry Clark, Director of "Wassup Rockers". |
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I On Cinema!
Interview:
Michael Winterbottom. |
|
LA Weekly
Remembering Pitfall:
How De Toth’s noir
prefigured the era of the antihero (by
Bertrand Tavernier). |
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Midnight Eye Interview:
Shunichi Nagasaki. |
|
MovieMaker
The Color of Forbidden
Fruit: Chen Kaige lights up the
screen with The Promise. |
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| June
2006 |
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Off Screen
Dario Argento,
Maestro Auteur or Master Misogynist? |
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Cineuropa
Bruno Dumont: An interview with the provocative French director
who brought his latest film, Flandres, to the Cannes Film
Festival competition. |
|
Film Comment
A Painful Case: A Conversation with Cristi Puiu, a director
under the influence. |
|
Filmmaker
Teenage Wasteland: Scott Macaulay talks with David Slade about
his searing story of sexual trespass and vigilante justice,
Hard Candy. |
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GreenCine
Fernando Solanas: “I am the Camera”. |
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The Guardian
'I've never been in the firing line like this before': Director
Richard Linklater is known for his gentle, Gen-X movies. Now
he's taking on the American meat industry with Fast Food Nation. |
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kamera
The Ozon layer: Antonio Pasolini talks to
François Ozon about his career and his new film, Le temps
qui reste (Time to Leave). |
|
MovieMaker
Writer-Director David Jacobson tackles complex characters in
Down in the Valley. |
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Pop Matters
Shh…Its’s Starting: Mechanical Animal.
Who's the perfect silent film comedian for our techno-centric
age? Here's a hint: he's the classic
'stoneface' who made machines his friends, not his
entertainment enemies, during the course of his amazing
cinematic career. |
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Senses of Cinema
Spotlight on
Hou Hsiao-hsien. |
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| May
2006 |
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