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Daily | Ferrara, Fassbinder, Lang

‘Welcome to New York’ One of the questions Cannes artistic director and delegate general Thierry Fremaux has been asked over and again since announcing this …

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An Independent Friendship: Swanberg and Ross

‘All the Light in the Sky’ Today Fandor is pleased to announce the streaming premiere of All the Light in the Sky, the award-winning feature …

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Daily | Cronenberg, Fincher, PSH

Picasso’s Jacqueline aux fleurs (1954) appears in Godard’s ‘Breathless’ (1960) and ‘Pierrot le fou’ (1965) In the run-up to Thursday’s announcement of the Cannes 2014 …

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Daily | Laemmle, Kazan, Bright Lights

Carl Laemmle Neal Gabler, author of the terrific 1989 book An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, has a must-read piece in …

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Ebert and Herzog

Roger Ebert, remembered Last week marked one year since the passing of Roger Ebert. Not simply a film critic, Roger was many things to many …

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Daily | Resnais, Linklater, Visconti

‘Last Year at Marienbad’ “By the seventeenth century Bellori could write: ‘Artists, abandoning the study of nature, have corrupted art with maniera, by which I …

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Daily | Von Trier, Dwan, Visconti

Lars von Trier, Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg on the set of ‘Melancholia’ (2011) REFRAME describes itself as “an open access academic digital platform for …

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Daily | Welles, Godard, Varda

The young Orson Welles Ever since the nine reels of Too Much Johnson, the filmic elements shot by Orson Welles for his Mercury Theater’s 1938 …

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Women’s Work at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival

‘Kismet’ An encouraging number of films at the 16th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (TDF) last week were by and about women. On the one hand the …

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Daily | Ferrara, Richie, Romanians

Willem Dafoe as Pasolini “I know who killed him.” That’s Abel Ferrara, as quoted by Eric J. Lyman in the Hollywood Reporter. Ferrara, who’s just …

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