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Daily | Marker, Godard, Lewis

Godard’s ‘Histoire(s) du Cinéma’ (1988-1998) Daniel L. Potter posts a text recently discovered and translated by Chris Darke: “In 2001, the French jazz fanzine Le …

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Werner Herzog’s Inner Landscapes

‘Fata Morgana’ Facts, per se, do not constitute truth. Werner Herzog’s films have often been rigidly categorized either as documentary or as fiction, when nearly …

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Filmwax Radio: Kelly Reichardt, Peter Sarsgaard and NIGHT MOVES

‘Night Moves’ Miami-raised, Kelly Reichardt says she wasn’t exposed to much culture growing up, but that her parents did encourage her interest in photography. That …

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Daily | Books | Godard, Rappaport, Agee

Coming in November Hey, Farran Smith Nehme has a novel coming out in November. Set in New York City in the late 80s, Missing Reels …

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Daily | In the Works | Linklater, Jia, Breillat

Hitchcock and Truffaut Since Cannes opened a little over a week ago, we’ve seen a Force Majeure-sized avalanche of announcements regarding future projects. Let’s have …

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Daily | Cannes 2014 | Xavier Dolan’s MOMMY

‘Mommy’ “Let’s hear it for Xavier Dolan,” begins Guy Lodge at In Contention, adding that “not many auteurs have built up such a body of …

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Daily | Abel Ferrara’s WELCOME TO NEW YORK

‘Welcome to New York’ “The career-imploding misadventures of former IMF chief (and presumptive French presidential candidate) Dominique Strauss-Kahn get filtered through the uniquely lurid prism …

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Daily | Grémillon, Linklater, Spike Lee

‘Daïnah la métisse’ We begin today where we began yesterday, with Cahiers du Cinéma‘s forthcoming 700th issue. To mark the occasion the magazine and the …

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Daily | Goings On | Diaz, Burstyn, Borowczyk

‘Norte, the End of History’ We begin, as always, in New York, where the Film Society of Lincoln Center has presented its highlights of the …

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Daily | In the Works | Davies, Oppenheimer, Alfredson

On the set of ‘Sunset Song’ Whether it’s the run-up to Cannes or mere coincidence, there’s been an unusually high number of stories on projects …

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