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Michael BueningFeatures FilmThe Grand Tension of Peter Watkins[28.Feb.08] :. Peter Watkins is a stubborn, one-man army, relentlessly pushing the film medium in a direction that is more challenging, productive, and involving.  FilmSpirited Away: The 45th Annual New York Film Festival - Part Two[15.Oct.07] :. Thematically, this year's New York Film Festival was strong on sophisticated explorations of religion and spirituality. Stylistically, many films eschewed intricate plotting for evocative visuals.  FilmFamily Dramas: The 45th Annual New York Film Festival, Part 1[4.Oct.07] :. The most noticeable feature of this year's New York Film Festival is the preponderance of American pictures.  FilmBAMcinématek Presents: Best of 2006: Just on the Edge[8.May.07] :. BAMcinématek’s Best of 2006 series served as a corrective to the clutter of year-end-best film selections, highlighting the unrecognized or undistributed.  DVDsCinema Cuba Libre[19.Mar.07] :. The primary goal of The Cuban Masterworks Collection seems to correspond with Engel's call "to break down the reluctance of non-Cuban audiences to look at their films at all, and to make them look without prejudice." Film Legendary Weapons of Hong KongFilm A Guide to the Lesser Woody Allen FilmsFilm Legendary Weapons of Hong KongFilm Lore of the Worlds: The 44th New York Film Festival - Part 2Film The Privileged Few: The 44th New York Film Festival - Part OneFilm Beautiful FreaksReviews DVDsEclipse Series 8: Lubitsch Musicals[23.Apr.08] :. The pre-Hays Code sexual innuendos of these films capture a side of the musical rarely seen in classical Hollywood films, of guilt-free dalliances and blatantly carnal wordplay in the style of Cole Porter.  DVDsMr. Warmth[19.Feb.08] :. A film on "the poster child for rabies" that left me wanting to understand this man.  TVThe Moment of Truth[30.Jan.08] :. Nothing about this series could be called "unexpected," coming as it does, from a corporation that perennially tempers its conservatism with the maturity and restraint of an eight-year-old.  DVDsMissionary Man[28.Jan.08] :. Whatever cheesy joy is contained in the story is smothered by the funereal air that hangs over the telling.  BooksThe Rough Guide to Film by Richard Armstrong[10.Jan.08] :. Unlike many guides which limit themselves to DVD or video releases, the writers say "our film selections have not been dictated by availability". DVDs Roses in DecemberBooks Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-SmithFeatured Article DVDsExtras: The Complete Second Season[28.Nov.07] :. Extras is filled with celebrity cameos, pratfalls, bawdy jokes, shameless mugging, and larger than life idiots. Books Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive JamesDVDs CommuneBooks Mingering Mike: The Amazing Career of an Imaginary Soul Superstar by Dori HadarFeatured Article DVDsCria Cuervos[21.Sep.07] :. Three generations, each imitating the sins of the others, await freedom in the declining years of Franco’s Spain. PopMatters Pick FilmGreat World of Sound[14.Sep.07] :. Great World of Sound portrays America as fragile and fractured, held together by flimsy notions of patriotism, celebrity, and can-do capitalism. Featured Article DVDsEclipse Series 4 - Raymond Bernard[14.Sep.07] :. This is blockbuster filmmaking of the most skillful and impressive sort from a keen visual stylist. DVDs Les Enfants TerriblesDVDs If . . . (1968)DVDs Reno 911! - Miami (2007)DVDs Sansho the BailiffEvents Promising Developments: The Sixth Annual Tribeca Film FestivalPopMatters Pick DVDsEssential Classics - American Musicals (1945)[27.Apr.07] :. This is a conformist America as it was defining itself in the mid 20th century, a young superpower looking backwards for grounding. The characters are brash and loud and charismatic. PopMatters Pick DVDsThe Burmese Harp (Biruma no tategoto) (1956)[17.Apr.07] :. The film's awareness lies behind much of the action, to give it a gravity and power that offers hope without denying the potentially hopeless psychological brutality of war. DVDs Peter Pan (2-Disc Platinum Edition) (1953)PopMatters Pick DVDsThe Naked City (1948)[2.Apr.07] :. This film's repetitive structures, meticulous legwork, and melting pot locations would become a staple of television crime-solvers. DVDs Shogun Assassin 2: Lightning Swords of Death (1972)DVDs Council of the Gods (Der Rat Der Götter) (1950)Film Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils dorchestre) (2006)DVDs Johan Van der Keuken: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 (2006)DVDs Empires: NapoleonDVDs Clean (2004)DVDs A Prairie Home Companion (2006)DVDs Ghost of Mae Nak (2005)Film Keeping Mum (2005)DVDs Water (2005)DVDs Cemetery Man (1993)DVDs Oh! Calcutta!Film Days of Heaven (1978)DVDs Kill the Moonlight (1994)DVDs Stalag 17: Special Collector's Edition (1952)TV American InventorDVDs Coney IslandDVDs The Andy Griffith Show: The Complete Fifth SeasonFilm Duck Season (Temporada de Patos) (2004)DVDs Ultimate Bull RidingFilm The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)TV Skating with CelebritiesDVDs Thérèse Raquin (1953)TV RomeDVDs The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)TV The Crusades: Crescent & The CrossFilm Where the Truth Lies (2005)DVDs At Last the 1948 ShowTV Everybody Hates ChrisDVDs The Dick Cavett Show: Rock IconsDVDs Fruit of Paradise (1970)DVDs The Naked Truth / Never Let Go (1958/1960)TV Situation: ComedyDVDs The Bob Newhart Show: The Complete First SeasonDVDs Groucho: A Life in Revue (2001)DVDs Full Frame Documentary Shorts Vol. 3 (2004)DVDs Prisoner of Paradise (2003) - PopMatters Film Review )TV A Current AffairTV Project Greenlight 3TV Showbiz TonightTV Making the Band 3DVDs The Wild Wild West: The Complete First Season |
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