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Thursday, October 28 2010

An Interactive Medium: The 48th Annual New York Film Festival

This year's organizers offered a reinvigorated idea of what the New York Film Festival can be: elite and cerebral, topically, tonally, and globally diverse, and eager to foster a dialogue with its community.


Monday, October 26 2009

The 47th Annual New York Film Festival

There were plenty of films in the New York Film Festival that captured similar redemptive moments and there is nothing esoteric, depressing or arduous about that.


Friday, November 7 2008

Personal Epics: The 46th Annual New York Film Festival

Shafted by the current events taking place outside its theaters, the New York Film Festival was agreeably low-key this year, demonstrating that art, at its best, can serve as valuable provocation when we try to make sense of a bewildering world.


Friday, June 27 2008

High and Low: Film Forum Presents: Nakadai

New York’s Film Forum offers an ambitious and inspired film series this summer, dedicated to the films of Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai. The series is as entertaining, provocative, and intricate as its subject.


Thursday, February 28 2008

The Grand Tension of Peter Watkins

Peter Watkins is a stubborn, one-man army, relentlessly pushing the film medium in a direction that is more challenging, productive, and involving.


Reviews

Tuesday, March 20 2012

Missed Connections: Tom McCarthy's 'Men in Space'

This has the patchwork quality of a work from a still gestating writer, but Tom McCarthy’s voice and chief obsessions, mainly the intersections and missed connections between people and technologies, are very much in evidence.


Thursday, February 23 2012

Agony and Ecstasy: 'Jerusalem:The Biography'

Jerusalem makes an engrossing case for history as a teeming, unruly cacophony leavened by humanitarian undercurrents.


Tuesday, October 18 2011

New York Film Festival 2011: The Skin I Live In + The Artist + The Descendents

The many characters in The Descendants create a complex Venn diagram of Matt King’s community and a larger rumination on their interlocking pain, anger, and love.


Thursday, October 13 2011

NYFF 2011: Four Films on Music and Redemption

The desire to balance the material and the spiritual is a theme apparent in the documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World and also in Steve McQueen's Shame, which takes the idea to a physical extreme.


Monday, October 10 2011

NYFF 2011: 'The Student' + 'Miss Bala' + "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia'

Once Upon A Time in Anatolia makes magnificent use of colors and light, as, for instance, the dark bruised purple of the countryside at night contrasts with the comforting orange glow of the car’s headlights.


Bootleg Film [8.Dec.09]
Still Life [20.Feb.09]
Holiday Inn [13.Nov.08]
Reprise [22.May.08]
Mr. Warmth [19.Feb.08]
Missionary Man [28.Jan.08]
Commune [31.Oct.07]
Cria Cuervos [21.Sep.07]
If . . . (1968) [13.Jul.07]
Clean (2004) [5.Nov.06]
Keeping Mum (2005) [15.Sep.06]
Water (2005) [14.Sep.06]
Oh! Calcutta! [10.Aug.06]
American Inventor [23.Mar.06]
Coney Island [22.Mar.06]
Rome [28.Nov.05]
Situation: Comedy [26.Jul.05]
A Current Affair [4.Apr.05]
Showbiz Tonight [28.Mar.05]
Making the Band 3 [21.Mar.05]

Blogs

Friday, February 26 2010

Lost in Translations


Wednesday, February 17 2010

The iPad Cometh


Monday, February 8 2010

Analyzing Oscar's Best Adaptations


Monday, November 30 2009

10 Years of Rialto Pictures: 10 Discs Box Set

10 Years of Rialto Pictures: 10 Discs Box Set - Criterion [$149.95]


Eclipse Series 4 - Raymond Bernard [$39.95] (Consuming Consumables) [16.Dec.07]
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