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The 100 Essential Directors Part 9: Victor Sjöström to Luchino Visconti
Today we present a glorious spate of international auteurs that range from cinematic innovators from the silent era to those who continue to push the limits of film in their contemporary work.
28 Aug 2011
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'L'Enfance Nue' Forces a Frighteningly Unmoored, Unlikeable Child Into Our Lives
We need to face the fact that we wouldn’t want to help Francois overcome his problems. We would probably send him away, too. How do we feel about that?
25 Aug 2010
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Essential Art House: Jules and Jim
François Truffaut's splendid New Wave is released in the Essential Art House series, with a gorgeous print but completely devoid of special features.
25 Apr 2010
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The Last Metro
Modern technical elements mixed with historical truths make for a singularly Truffautian experience, where tolerance is paramount.
09 Apr 2009
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The Aesthetics of Absorption: Truffaut's 'The 400 Blows'
In Truffaut, the camera works not to keep the viewer out of the constructed reality of the film but rather to draw the viewer into the artifice, to make the viewer complicit in its feigned reality
02 Apr 2009
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An Auteur's Touch of Evil
The auteur is dead, long live the auteur: Orson Welles and Touch of Evil, 50 years on.
19 Mar 2009
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
This is a young man's film, a film with its arms and eyes wide open, with none of the paranoia and xenophobia which plague us today.
Jake Meaney
16 Dec 2007
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Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction
The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.
28 May 2007
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Jules and Jim: Criterion Collection (1962)
'Truffaut had the dread of everything conventional. Above all, he detested the conventionality of the nonconventional,' Jean Gruault notes.
Cynthia Fuchs
30 May 2005
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