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Remembering Making The Things We Do for Love: A Cinemagic
By Andrew Repasky McElhinney. “Cinemagic” is a Magic Word Twenty years ago, late September 2006, my phone rang — it was Gina Renzi, the director of The Rotunda, where I curated a monthly screening series, Andrew’s Video Vault from 2003 to 2017. Gina’s breaking news was that…
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Bertolucci’s Final Personal Vision: Andrea Pallaoro on The Echo Chamber (CIFF )
By Jonathan Monovich. I chose to focus more on the screenplay that I inherited from (Bertolucci), Ludovica, and Ilaria because it is somewhat of an autobiographical work of Bertolucci. I chose not to invest myself in Bertolucci as a filmmaker but Bertolucci as a man.” Over the…
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Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Responses: The Horror Gospels of Existential Crisis Cinema
By David Ryan. Where horror often permits the restoration of human order by containing or defeating the evil spirit, monster or demon, existential crisis films confront audiences with the dramatic and inevitable loss of human agency in society, politics, culture, and morality….”…
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In Ripley’s Shoes: Anton Corbijn’s A Talent for Murder
By Thomas M. Puhr. Corbijn and company have crafted an engaging, surprisingly funny examination of how fiction allows you to experience the life or death (or sex, for that matter) you think you deserve.” Tom Ripley has become so ingrained in the cultural consciousness that even…
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Joining the Debate – A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy
A Book Review by Ali Moosavi. Cannot be classified as, nor does it claim to be, a biography of Alfred Hitchcock [but] Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy is essential reading to obtain a balanced view of this iconic director.” Alfred Hitchcok and Stanley Kubrick are…
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Peter Lorre, Rest in Peace
By Gary D. Rhodes. Peter Lorre’s flair for black comedy shines brightly, like a harvest moon casting dark shadows on All Hallow’s Eve…. Lorre lives, even in death.” What a wonderfully paradoxical title: The Comedy of Terrors (1963), one of Peter Lorre’s last films, and the very…
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Anything is Everything: John Wilson’s The History of Concrete
By Thomas M. Puhr. It would be all-too-easy to criticize Wilson for both his scattershot approach and seeming off-the-cuff attitude… but a mandala-like design ties everything into a cohesive whole.” Dank water floods a gym locker room. A dog pukes from the window of a speeding…
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How Louise Brooks Came to Play Lulu: A New Look at a Legend
By Thomas Gladysz. For decades, it’s been said G. W. Pabst cast Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box after having seen her in A Girl in Every Port. It’s an assertion repeated so often it has become fact, part of the legend which surrounds not only the acclaimed German film, but […]…
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Autobiographical Traces, Community, and Milestones of Filmmaking: Charles Burnett on My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
By M. Sellers Johnson. [The new 4k restoration of My Brother’s Wedding] catches me at a strange moment because I’m caught up and trying to get some things done, and they’re not working out quite as well as I’d love them to. But things sort of take their time, you […] The post…
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From Sound to Observation: Shuntaro Uchida on Incinerator
By Yun-hua Chen. I felt that my job was to interfere with that as little as possible.” –Shuntaro Uchida Ten-year-old Kozue (Karin) feels out of place at school. She doesn’t have any peer to talk to and likes tossing randomly procured objects into the school’s incinerator. The…