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Kurosawa’s early spring - 1 week ago
The Most Beautiful (1944). For Donald Richie DB here: Cinephile communities aren’t free of...
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A quick note - 2 weeks ago
We are delighted to learn that we were selected “Critics of the Naughts” by IFC.com....
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The other expanded Oscar category - 2 weeks ago
Two Jell-o lovers share a romantic interlude in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Kristin...
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Seed-beds of style - 3 weeks ago
The Hunt for Red October. DB here: Seminar, orig. German (1889): A class that meets for...
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“I am not Carl Dreyer, and I should shut up” - 1 month ago
Kristin here: So says director Guillermo del Toro in his self-deprecating lead-in to his audio...
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Get well soon, Richie-san - 1 month ago
Donald Richie is in a Tokyo hospital recuperating from pneumonia. If you’ve read a book on...
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Daisies in the crevices - 1 month ago
DB here: If you wanted a prototype of some unique visual pleasures of 1930s cinema, you could do...
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Avatar plunges into the Uncanny Unimaginative Valley - 20 hours ago
Shortly after getting gut-shot, one of the characters in James Cameron's "Avatar" wisecracks:...
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Moments Out of Time 2009 - yesterday
Once again, Richard T. Jameson and Kathleen Murphy transform the year's movies into poetry -- and...
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Impressions Based on the Hype for the Movie Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire - 2 days ago
This is the first of two posts about the movie "Precious Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire." In...
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Eastwood v. Pixar: Get off my virtual lawn - 4 days ago
(tip: Living in Cinema)
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Go, Manohla, go! - 5 days ago
Ah, this is so refreshing. New York Times critic Manohla Dargis -- one of my favorites, as you...
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Surprises? MSN Contribs' Top 10 Movies of 2009 - 5 days ago
I think you'll find this list a bit more interesting and idiosyncratic than most of these kinds of...
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Quentin Tarantino's Top 8 for 2009 - 5 days ago
Why don't more directors do this -- congratulate their fellow filmmakers on their favorite...
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The Dickensian state of film
Despite a few bright spots, in the last 10 years cinema has shown a poverty of intelligence. ...
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A sorcerer of the big screen - 1 hour ago
The man who brought 'Harry Potter' to Warner Bros. now has his own production company on the lot....
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'Avatar' on track for a $25-million-plus Friday - 22 hours ago
Could snow keep "Avatar" from an $80-million weekend?
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'District 9' landing on a disc near you
Other releases: 'All About Steve,' 'Extract,' '(500) Days of Summer,' 'It Might Get Loud' ...
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'Alien' screenwriter Dan O'Bannon dies at 63 - 18 hours ago
An acclaimed figure in sci-fi and horror, he wrote and directed 'The Return of the Living Dead' and...
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#95: All That Heaven Allows - 1 week ago
All That Heaven Allows, 1955, directed by Douglas Sirk, screenplay by Peg Fenwick, from a short...
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See It On Film: November 2009 - 1 month ago
Here are some of the films from the Criterion Collection that are showing in the Los Angeles area in...
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See It On Film: October 2009 - 2 months ago
Here are some of the films from the Criterion Collection that are showing in the Los Angeles area in...
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#94: I Know Where I'm Going! - 3 months ago
I Know Where I'm Going!, 1945, written and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. After...
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See it on Film: September 2009 - 3 months ago
I saw Play Time on 70mm at the Aero a few weeks back, and it occurred to me that this site's focus...
