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Nov 17, 2022
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Nov 17, 2022
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David B. Pearson; Patricia Eliot Tobias
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Documentary about the making of Buster Keaton's silent comedy classic, Sherlock Jr. (1924). Written by David B. Pearson & Patricia Eliot Tobias Narrated by Brad Brooks
Topics: Buster Keaton, Sherlock Jr., David B. Pearson, Patricia Eliot Tobias, Brad Brooks, cinema, film,...
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Nov 16, 2022
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Nov 16, 2022
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Jacques Tati; André Bazin; François Truffaut; Bert Cardullo
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Translated by Bert Cardullo Published online: 27 Oct 2010. Bert Cardullo (2002) An Interview with Jacques Tati by Andre Bazin, with the Participation of Francois Truffaut, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 19:4, 285-298, This interview originally appeared in French in Cahiers du Cinéma 83 (May 1958), pp. 2–20
Topics: Jacques Tati, André Bazin, François Truffaut, Bert Cardullo, French film, French cinema, French...
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Nov 16, 2022
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Nov 16, 2022
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Jeffrey Vance
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In this 2010 visual essay, Chaplin historian Jeffrey Vance, author of “Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema,” draws from a wealth of production photography to discuss the making of MODERN TIMES.
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, Jeffrey Vance, Charles Chaplin, cinema, film, silent film, silent...
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Nov 16, 2022
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Nov 16, 2022
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Wes Anderson
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Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the world wars. At the opulent Grand Budapest Hotel, the concierge M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his young protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) forge a steadfast bond as they are swept up in a scheme involving the theft of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune—while around them, political upheaval consumes the continent....
Topics: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson, American cinema, American film, American films, Ralph...
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Nov 16, 2022
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Nov 16, 2022
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Pier Paolo Pasolini proved himself a radical with his very first feature, in which he courted controversy by applying Catholic iconography and the liturgical music of Bach to a grim neorealist story set in Italian society’s lowest depths. Accattone (Franco Citti) is a shiftless pimp who loses his livelihood when the woman he works with is thrown in prison. Unable to support himself, the desperate Accattone sets his sights on luring a seemingly naive young woman (Franca Pasut) into sex work....
Topics: Accattone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Italian cinema, cinema...
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Nov 15, 2022
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Nov 15, 2022
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Yorgos Lanthimos; Emma Stone; Rachel Weisz
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Q&A with Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone & Rachel Weisz of THE FAVOURITE. Moderated by Mara Webster, Program Manager
Topics: The Favourite, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Mara Webster, SAG, Screen Actors Guild,...
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Nov 14, 2022
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Nov 14, 2022
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Buster Keaton; Clyde Bruckman
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When union spies steal his locomotive (along with his girlfriend), a plucky railway engineer pursues them doggedly across enemy lines. Containing one of the most memorable chase sequences in the history of filmmaking, The General is widely considered to be Keaton’s masterpiece. Directed by Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman Written by Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman Adapted by Al Boasberg & Charles Henry Smith Based on the memoir "The Great Locomotive Chase" by William...
Topics: The General, The general 1926, war films, buster keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, Charles Henry...
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Nov 13, 2022
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Nov 13, 2022
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Barry Jenkins
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Commentary by director & cowriter Barry Jenkins
Topics: Moonlight, Barry Jenkins, cinema, audio commentary, commentary track, film commentary, director's...
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Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne; Luc Dardenne
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The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta , an intense vérité drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold on to a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It’s a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathetic way in which the directors render Rosetta’s desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on her shoulder throughout. Many have copied the Dardennes’ style, but few have equaled it....
Topics: Rosetta, Émilie Dequenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Dardenne brothers, Palme d'Or, Alain...
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Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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Jiří Menzel
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Two years after his worldwide hit Closely Watched Trains , Jiří Menzel directed this amusing idyll about three middle-aged men whose mellow summer is interrupted by the arrival of a circus performer and his beautiful assistant. A meditation on aging and sex, shot in warm, sun-dappled color, Capricious Summer is one of the New Wave’s loveliest reveries. Directed by Jiří Menzel Screenplay by Jiří Menzel & Václav Nyvlt Script Editing by Vladimír Kalina & Jan Libora Based on the...
Topics: Capricious Summer, Jiří Menzel, Rozmarné léto, Vladislav Vančura, Summer of Caprice, film...
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Nov 10, 2022
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Nov 10, 2022
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Kevin Brownlow
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Kevin Brownlow, who directed UNKNOW CHAPLIN with the late David Gill, describes the discoveries that led to the making of the series and the story of its production.
Topics: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill, Unknown Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, David Robinson,...
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Nov 10, 2022
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Nov 10, 2022
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John Bengtson; Richard Correll
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This commentary features director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll and film writer John Bengtson.
Topics: Young Mr. Jazz, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, John Bengtson, Rich Correll, Pathé Exchange, Rolin Film...
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Nov 10, 2022
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Nov 10, 2022
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Hal Roach
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A young couple on the run encounter car trouble - right outside a dancehall teeming with outlaws. The two go through a slapstick struggle to keep the crooks, and the girlfriend's angry father, at bay. Directed by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, Snub Pollard, Sammy Brooks, Billy Fay, Mildred Forbes, Rose Gold, Lew Harvey, Wallace Howe, Bud Jamison, Margaret Joslin, Dee Lampton, Marie Mosquini, Fred C. Newmeyer, James Parrott, Dorothea Wolbert and Noah Young
Topics: Young Mr. Jazz, Harold Lloyd, Hal Roach, Pathé Exchange, Rolin Film Company, Glasses Character,...
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Nov 9, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
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Alexander Sesonske
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Audio commentary written by film scholar Alexander Sesonske and read by filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Topics: The Rules of the Game, Jean Renoir, Alexander Sesonske, Peter Bogdanovich, cinema, criterion...
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Nov 8, 2022
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Nov 8, 2022
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Gillo Pontecorvo
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One of the most influential political films in history, The Battle of Algiers , by Gillo Pontecorvo, vividly re-creates a key year in the tumultuous Algerian struggle for independence from the occupying French in the 1950s. As violence escalates on both sides, children shoot soldiers at point-blank range, women plant bombs in cafés, and French soldiers resort to torture to break the will of the insurgents. Shot on the streets of Algiers in documentary style, the film is a case study in modern...
Topics: The Battle of Algiers, La battaglia di Algeri, Gillo Pontecorvo, Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin,...
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Nov 8, 2022
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Nov 8, 2022
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David Kalat
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Audio commentary by film historian David Kalat
Topics: Godzilla, Ishiro Honda, David Kalat, cinema, criterion collection, criterion, criterion commentary,...
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Oscar winner Marion Cotillard received another nomination for her searing, deeply felt performance as a working-class woman desperate to hold on to her factory job, in this gripping film from master Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Cotillard is Sandra, a wife and mother who suffers from depression and discovers that, while she was home on sick leave, a majority of her coworkers voted in favor of her being laid off over giving up their annual bonuses. She then spends a Saturday...
Topics: Two Days One Night, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Deux jours une nuit,...
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Nov 7, 2022
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Nov 7, 2022
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Agnès Varda
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The great Agnès Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple (played by Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret) and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later be considered one of the progenitors of the coming...
Topics: La Pointe Courte, Agnès Varda, French cinema, cinema, French film, French films, cinema of France,...
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Nov 5, 2022
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Nov 5, 2022
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Spike Lee
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Screenplay written by Spike Lee for an unmade Jackie Robinson biopic. Based on the autobiography I Never Had It Made .
Topics: Spike Lee, screenplay, screenwriting, Jackie Robinson, baseball, I Never Had It Made, biopic,...
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Nov 4, 2022
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Nov 4, 2022
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Howard Hawks
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Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers. Directed by Howard Hawks Written by Charles Lederer Based on the Musical Comedy by Anita Loos & Joseph Fields Cinematography by Harry J. Wild Music by Leigh Harline, Lionel Newman, Hal Schaefer and Herbert W. Spencer Editing by Hugh S. Fowler Art Direction by Lyle R. Wheeler &...
Topics: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Howard Hawks, Charles Lederer, Anita Loos,...
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Nov 3, 2022
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Nov 3, 2022
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Stephen Prince
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Audio commentary featuring film historian Stephen Prince
Topics: The Sword of Doom, Kihachi Okamoto, Stephen Prince, cinema, Tatsuya Nakadai, criterion collection,...
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Nov 3, 2022
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Nov 3, 2022
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Stephen Prince
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Audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince
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Topics: Kwaidan, Masaki Kobayashi, Stephen Prince, cinema, criterion collection, criterion, criterion...
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Nov 1, 2022
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Nov 1, 2022
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Stephen Prince
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Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
Topics: Sanjuro, Akira Kurosawa, Stephen Prince, cinema, Toshiro Mifune, criterion collection, criterion,...
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Oct 31, 2022
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Oct 31, 2022
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Stephen Prince
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Audio commentary by film historian and Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince
Topics: Yojimbo, Akira Kurosawa, Stephen Prince, Toshiro Mifune, cinema, criterion collection, criterion,...
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Oct 30, 2022
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Oct 30, 2022
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Audio commentary by director Francis Ford Coppola
Topics: The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola, film commentary, audio commentary, commentary track,...
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Oct 30, 2022
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Oct 30, 2022
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Kevin Brownlow; David Gill; Dan Kamin
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Stepping Out: Edited Sequence In the 1980s, film archivist Kevin Brownlow and David Gill screened thousands of feet of outtakes from Charlie Chaplin's silent movies for what would become the British television series “Unknown Chaplin.” One treasure from THE CIRCUS is the deleted sequence presented here, edited by Brownlow and Gill as Chaplin might have, and with a score composed by Timothy Brock. Stepping Out: A Selection of Outtakes from The Circus Presented here is a selection of outtakes...
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, The Circus, Kevin Brownlow, David Gill, Dan Kamin, Unknown Chaplin, outtakes,...
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Oct 28, 2022
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Oct 28, 2022
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Stuart Galbraith IV
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Audio commentary by Stuart Galbraith IV, author of The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
Topics: Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa, Stuart Galbraith IV, Japanese cinema, Japanese films, Japanese film,...
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Oct 26, 2022
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Oct 26, 2022
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Neil Sinyard
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Audio commentary by professor of film studies Neil Sinyard, author of The Films of Richard Lester
Topics: The Knack and How to Get It, Richard Lester, Neil Sinyard, cinema, commentary track, audio...
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Oct 26, 2022
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Oct 26, 2022
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Dick Pope
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Dick Pope, BSC in conversation with Sir Roger Deakins, BSC, ASC, CBE on Mike Leigh's Naked at an event for the British Society of Cinematographers
Topics: Dick Pope, Roger Deakins, Mike Leigh, Life Is Sweet, Naked, cinematography, cinematographer,...
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Oct 26, 2022
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Oct 26, 2022
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Hooman Mehran
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The following eight minutes of footage were captured by Charlie Chaplin’s friend Ralph Barton. We see the director orchestrate a scene that reveals the flower girl’s blindness and establishes her belief that the Tramp is a wealthy man. It is presented here with audio commentary by Chaplin historian Hooman Mehran.
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, City Lights, Charles Chaplin, Hooman Mehran, cinema, film, silent film, silent...
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Oct 25, 2022
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Oct 25, 2022
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John Waters
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Audio commentary featuring John Waters, from the 2001 DVD release
Topics: Pink Flamingos, John Waters, cinema, Divine, comedy, comedy films, criterion, criterion collection,...
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Oct 24, 2022
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Oct 24, 2022
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Wes Anderson; Noah Baumbach
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Audio commentary by director Wes Anderson and cowriter Noah Baumbach
Topics: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, cinema, criterion collection,...
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula is Francis Ford Coppola’s brilliant homage to the wonders of cinema. Coppola honors film with allusions to the magic of early cinematograph and a contribution to the long legacy of vampire films. However, with Gary Oldman as the desperate and thirsty Count, Winona Ryder as his reincarnated Elisabeta, and Tom Waits as the bug-eating Renfield, Coppola’s version also steps boldly into the present, bringing to the fore themes earlier versions could only suggest....
Topics: Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola, vampire, vampire films, horror films, Bram...
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Oct 20, 2022
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Oct 20, 2022
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Bill Forsyth; Mark Kermode
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Audio commentary from 2018 featuring director Bill Forsyth and film critic Mark Kermode
Topics: Local Hero, Bill Forsyth, Mark Kermode, cinema, David Puttnam, comedy, comedy films, Burt...
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Oct 18, 2022
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Oct 18, 2022
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Sadao Yamanaka
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Unno, a masterless samurai, has been supported financially since his father’s death by his wife, who makes small paper balloons. He hopes that Mouri, his father’s former master, will hire him after being given a letter from Unno’s father. Unno’s neighbor, Shinza, a hairdresser by trade, is under constant threat by gang members after running gambling dens on their territory. Directed by Sadao Yamanaka Written by Shintarô Mimura, based on his play Cinematography by Akira Mimura Music by...
Topics: Humanity and Paper Balloons, Sadao Yamanaka, Ninjō kami fūsen, japanese cinema, japanese film,...
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Oct 17, 2022
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Oct 17, 2022
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Frank Scheide
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Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Comedy The Floorwalker , with commentary by film historian Frank Scheide
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, The Floorwalker, Charles Chaplin, Frank Scheide, cinema, film, silent film, silent...
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Oct 17, 2022
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Oct 17, 2022
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Irène Jacob
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Film Screening followed by Q&A with starring actress Irène Jacob, in conversation with Annette Insdorf. Annette Insdorf is a professor of film studies in Columbia’s School of the Arts and her books include Double Lives, Second Chances: The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Topics: Irène Jacob, Annette Insdorf, Krzysztof Kieślowski, The Double Life of Véronique, screen acting,...
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Oct 15, 2022
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Jeffrey Vance
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An overview of the 12 films Charlie Chaplin made for the Mutual Film Corporation from 1916 to 1917, by film historian Jeffrey Vance.
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, Jeffrey Vance, Mutual Film Corporation, Charles Chaplin, cinema, film, silent...
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Lindsay Anderson
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Lindsay Anderson critiques the ending of On the Waterfront, specifically taking issue with the political implications of it. From Sight and Sound 1955-01, pg. 127-130
Topics: Lindsay Anderson, On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan, Sight and Sound, Marlon Brando, film criticism,...
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Oct 15, 2022
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Oct 15, 2022
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Charlie Chaplin
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Charlie Chaplin was already an international star when he decided to break out of the short-film format and make his first full-length feature. The Kid doesn’t merely show Chaplin at a turning point, when he proved that he was a serious film director—it remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, he stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in...
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, The Kid, cinema, film, silent film, silent films, silent cinema, silent, silent...
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Oct 12, 2022
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Oct 12, 2022
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Ben Model
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In the following program, produced in 2015, silent-film specialist Ben Model looks at how Charlie Chaplin used the difference between filming and projecting speeds to create unique gags that could only exist in silent cinema.
Topics: Ben Model, Charlie Chaplin, cinema, film, silent film, silent films, silent cinema, silent, silent...
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Oct 10, 2022
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Oct 10, 2022
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Kevin Brownlow; Jeffrey Vance
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In 1942, Charlie Chaplin released a sound version of THE GOLD RUSH, effectively abandoning his 1925 silent. In 1993, filmmakers David Gill and Kevin Brownlow reconstructed the original film, for which there were few surviving elements. In this program, Brownlow and Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance recount the journey of this comic masterpiece.
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, The Gold Rush, Kevin Brownlow, Jeffrey Vance, cinema, film, silent film, silent...
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Oct 10, 2022
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Oct 10, 2022
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Craig Barron
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In this piece, visual effects expert Craig Barron takes a look at the set designs created by Charlie Chaplin and his team of artists and technicians—designs whose ingenuity, efficiency, and humor flowed from the unique creative process employed at Chaplin Studios.
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, filmmaking, First National Pictures, Charlie Chaplin Studios, How to Make Movies,...
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Oct 10, 2022
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Oct 10, 2022
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Wes Anderson
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Audio commentary by director Wes Anderson
Topics: Wes Anderson, The Royal Tenenbaums, comedy, comedy films, American film, American cinema, cinema,...
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Oct 9, 2022
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Oct 9, 2022
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Krzysztof Kieślowski
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24 hours in the life of a hospital from the point of view of the doctors and nurses. Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski Cinematography by Jacek Petrycki Assistant Camera: Piotr Latałło & Jerzy Snoch Film Editing by Lidia Zonn Sound by Małgorzata Moszczeńska & Michał Żarnecki Sound Editor: Aleksander Goldbeck Production Manager: Ryszard Wrzesinski
Topics: Hospital, Szpital, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych,...
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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Buster Keaton
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Meek millionaire Alfred Butler (Buster Keaton) goes on a camping excursion with his faithful servant (Snitz Edwards). Once in the wilderness, Alfred ignores outdoor activities in favor of trying to woo a charming mountain girl (Sally O'Neil), who wants nothing to do with her spoiled suitor. Trying to impress the girl, Alfred masquerades as boxing star "Battling" Butler (Francis McDonald). Unfortunately, when the real fighter finds out puny Alfred has been impersonating him, the brawl...
Topics: Battling Butler, Buster Keaton, cinema, film, silent film, silent films, silent cinema, silent,...
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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Krzysztof Kieślowski
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While a film student in Łódź, Krzysztof Kieślowski made the 1966 silent short THE TRAM, about a flirtatious boy and a pretty girl. The film is presented here courtesy of the Polish National Film, Television, and Theatre School in Łódź. Written & Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski Cinematography by Zdzisław Kaczmarek Starring Jerzy Braszka & Maria Janiec
Topics: Tramwaj, The Tram, Tramway, Krzysztof Kieślowski, short film, Leon Schiller National Film School,...
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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Donald Crisp; Buster Keaton
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Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbour across the street, Betsy O’Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy’s rich father has just sold to a small country at war. Keaton was...
Topics: The Navigator, Buster Keaton, cinema, film, silent film, silent films, silent cinema, silent,...
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Oct 7, 2022
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Oct 7, 2022
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Buster Keaton
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A film projectionist (and amateur detective) offers to solve the case of a missing watch, but is instead framed for the crime himself. Desperate to clear his name, the projectionist dreams of being the great Sherlock Jr., and in one of cinemas most iconic sequences, literally steps into the screen to bring his fantasies to life. Directed by Buster Keaton Story by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joe Mitchell Cinematography by Byron Houck & Elgin Lessley Edited by Buster Keaton Art Direction...
Topics: Sherlock Jr., Buster Keaton, cinema, film, silent film, silent films, silent cinema, silent, silent...
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Oct 6, 2022
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Oct 6, 2022
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Cecilia Cenciarelli
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Charlie Chaplin long wanted to make a film about Napoleon Bonaparte, working and reworking his concept over a number of years—until ultimately it morphed into THE GREAT DICTATOR. The following visual essay by Cecilia Cenciarelli, archivist and head of the Cineteca di Bologna’s Progetto Chaplin, traces the trajectory of Chaplin’s Napoleon project. Narrated by Dan Stewart
Topics: Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte, Cecilia Cenciarelli, Cineteca di Bologna,...
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Oct 3, 2022
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Sam Taylor
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Wealthy ladies' man J. Harold Manners (Harold Lloyd) enjoys a privileged, sheltered life. So, when he finds out his name is being used to bring people into a mission in the poorer part of town, Harold sets out to get his moniker removed from the project. Instead, he meets the priest's daughter, Hope (Jobyna Ralston), and is smitten. That Hope is from the wrong side of the tracks doesn't dissuade Harold from pursuing her. The question is whether this uptown boy can win over a downtown girl....
Topics: For Heaven's Sake, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, cinema, film, glasses character, silent film,...
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Oct 3, 2022
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Oct 3, 2022
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Fred C. Newmeyer; Sam Taylor
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Harold Lloyd’s biggest box-office hit was this silent comedy gem, featuring the befuddled everyman at his eager best as a new college student. Though he dreams of being a big man on campus, the freshman’s careful plans inevitably go hilariously awry, be it on the football field or at the Fall Frolic. But he gets a climactic chance to prove his mettle—and impress the sweet girl he loves—in one of the most famous sports sequences ever filmed. This crowd-pleaser is a gleeful showcase for...
Topics: The Freshman, Harold Lloyd, Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, cinema, film, glasses character, silent...
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Oct 3, 2022
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Oct 3, 2022
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Fred C. Newmeyer
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Harold Lloyd plays a young man who is in love with a young woman, but he mistakenly believes she loves another. Despondent, he decides to commit suicide, but each attempt is unsuccessful. Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer Story by Hal Roach & Sam Taylor Titles by H.M. Walker Cinematography by Walter Lundin Edited by T.J. Crizer Starring Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Mark Jones, Charles Stevenson, William Gillespie and George Rowe Music by Robert Israel
Topics: Never Weaken, Harold Lloyd, cinema, film, glasses character, silent film, silent films, silent...
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Oct 3, 2022
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Oct 3, 2022
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John Waters
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On Role Models, the new memoir from legendary American filmmaker, actor, and writer John Waters, author Augusten Burroughs comments, "How did somebody from a quiet Baltimore neighborhood grow up to become the outlandish, brilliant, and insane John Waters? Two words: Johnny Mathis." In addition to the cult films he is famous for including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Polyester, Waters has published two previous books, Shock Value and Crackpot, a collection of essays. A window into...
Topics: John Waters, Free Library of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Gary Kramer, Pink Flamingos, literature, Role...
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Melvin Van Peebles
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Melvin Van Peebles’s only foray into Hollywood filmmaking, Watermelon Man is one of the most audacious, radically conceived works to be financed by a major American studio in the 1970s. Comedian Godfrey Cambridge delivers a virtuoso performance (initially in whiteface) as Jeff Gerber, a loudmouthed, bigoted white insurance salesman whose sitcomlike suburban existence is jarringly upended when he wakes up to discover, in a wild spin on Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis , that he has become a...
Topics: Watermelon Man, Melvin Van Peebles, Godfrey Cambridge, Herman Raucher, Carl Kress, Malcolm C. Bert,...
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Sep 29, 2022
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Wes Anderson; Jason Schwartzman; Owen Wilson
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Audio commentary featuring director Wes Anderson, cowriter Owen Wilson, and actor Jason Schwartzman
Topics: Rushmore, Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, American Empirical Pictures, Deepak...
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Sep 29, 2022
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Fred C. Newmeyer; Sam Taylor
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A tailor's apprentice writes a book for young men about wooing women, despite the fact that he himself is nervous around them. Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor Story by Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan and Ted Wilde Titles by Thomas J. Gray Cinematography by Walter Lundin Edited by Allen McNeil Art Direction by Liell K. Vedder Starring Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels and Carlton Griffin Music by Robert Israel
Topics: Girl Shy, Harold Lloyd, cinema, film, glasses character, silent film, silent films, silent cinema,...
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Sep 28, 2022
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Christian Petzold
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In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, André. Instead, Barbara snatches moments with her lover as she secretly prepares to defect one day. Despite her plans, Barbara learns more about her life that puts her desires and the people around her in a new...
Topics: Barbara, Christian Petzold, Nina Hoss, Harun Farocki, Hans Fromm, Stefan Will, Bettina Böhler,...
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Topics: Peter Bogdanovich, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby, cinema, comedy,...
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Peter Bogdanovich
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Audio commentary from 2005 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich
Topics: Peter Bogdanovich, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Howard Hawks, Bringing Up Baby, cinema, comedy,...
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Sep 26, 2022
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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In Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s devastatingly witty Hollywood classic, backstage is where the real drama plays out. One night, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) entertains a surprise dressing-room visitor: her most adoring fan, the shy, wide-eyed Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter). But as Eve becomes a fixture in Margo’s life, the Broadway legend soon realizes that her supposed admirer intends to use her and everyone in her circle, including George Sanders’s acid-tongued critic, as stepping-stones to...
Topics: All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, The Wisdom of Eve, Mary Orr, film...
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Sep 26, 2022
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Christian Petzold
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A man attempting to escape occupied France falls in love with the wife of a dead author whose identity he has assumed. Written and Directed by Christian Petzold Based on the novel by Anna Seghers Cinematography by Hans Fromm Music by Stefan Will Edited by Bettina Böhler Production Design by Kade Gruber Set Decoration by Aurelie Combe Costume Design by Katharina Ost Starring Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Godehard Giese, Lilien Batman, Maryam Zaree, Barbara Auer, Ronald Kukulies, Antoine...
Topics: Transit, Christian Petzold, Franz Rogowski, Paula Beer, Anna Seghers, Transit Visa, Hans Fromm,...
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Sep 19, 2022
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Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.; Robert Fields
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Commentary by director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. and actor Robert Fields
Topics: The Blob, Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Robert Fields, Bart Sloane, Ralph Carmichael, Burt Bacharach,...
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Sep 19, 2022
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Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.; Robert Fields
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Commentary by director Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. and actor Robert Fields
Topics: The Blob, Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., Robert Fields, Bart Sloane, Ralph Carmichael, Burt Bacharach,...
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Sep 17, 2022
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Miloš Forman
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A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman’s first color film The Firemen’s Ball (Horí, má panenko) is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire. A hilarious saga of good intentions confounded, the story chronicles a firemen’s ball where nothing goes right—from a beauty pageant whose reluctant participants embarrass the organizers to a lottery from which nearly all the prizes are pilfered. Presumed to be a commentary on the floundering Czech leadership, the film...
Topics: The Firemen’s Ball, Miloš Forman, Jaroslav Papoušek, Ivan Passer, Václav Šašek, Miroslav...
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Sep 17, 2022
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Charles Burnett
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A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to-do fiancée and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding. Although the film is today praised for its tender, funny and moving portrayal of contemporary working class African American life, mishandling of the film's promotion by the producers led to a limited release of only a rough edit of the film to mixed reviews in 1983. Burnett was able to finish editing and re-release the film in...
Topics: My Brother's Wedding, Charles Burnett, Milestone Films, tragicomedy, Thomas Penick, Penny Barrett,...
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Sep 14, 2022
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Sep 14, 2022
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Donald Richie
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Audio commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richi e
Topics: Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie, Rashomon, Japanese cinema, Japanese films, Japanese film, cinema of...
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Sep 14, 2022
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Sep 14, 2022
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Peter Cowie; Tilda Swinton
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In 2009, Tilda Swinton served as the jury president of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival. At her public talk at Berlinale Talents that year, she reflected on the defining moments in her illustrious career and her dedication to film as art. Moderated by Peter Cowie.
Topics: Tilda Swinton, Peter Cowie, Derek Jarman, film acting, screen acting, Caravaggio, Edward II, Sally...
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Sep 13, 2022
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Buster Keaton; Charles Reisner
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A steamboat captain receives a telegram informing him that his son who he has not seen for many years will be coming to visit. Eagerly expecting a strapping young lad who will help him compete with his arch-rival, he is disappointed with the effete progeny that instead shows up. Best remembered for its climactic cyclone sequence in which Keaton performs a number of death-defying stunts whilst an entire town is destroyed around him, Steamboat Bill, Jr. was Buster Keaton’s last independent...
Topics: Steamboat Bill Jr., Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner, Carl Harbaugh, Bert Haines, Dev Jennings,...
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Sep 12, 2022
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Sep 12, 2022
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Christopher Bishop; Buster Keaton
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Film Quarterly , Autumn, 1958, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Autumn, 1958), pp. 15-22
Topics: Buster Keaton, Christopher Bishop, Film Quarterly, University of California Press, vaudeville,...
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Sep 12, 2022
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John Bengtson; Richard Correll
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This commentary features director and Harold Lloyd archivist Richard Correll and film writer John Bengtson.
Topics: Take a Chance, Alfred J. Goulding, John Bengtson, Rich Correll, Pathé Exchange, Rolin Film...
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Sep 12, 2022
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Sep 12, 2022
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Alfred J. Goulding
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In this one-reel film from 1918, Harold Lloyd stars as a man looking to spend his last 25 cents. Directed by Alfred J. Goulding Cinematography by Walter Lundin Starring Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell, Sammy Brooks, Harry Burns, Billy Fay, James A. Fitzgerald, William Gillespie, Lew Harvey, Wallace Howe, Bud Jamison, Helen Gilmore, Dee Lampton and Belle Mitchell
Topics: Take a Chance, Alfred J. Goulding, Walter Lundin, Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William...
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Sep 11, 2022
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Sep 11, 2022
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Bert Cardullo; Mike Leigh
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From Literature/Film Quarterly , 2011, Vol. 39, No. 1 (2011), pp. 14-29
Topics: Mike Leigh, Bert Cardullo, Literature/Film Quarterly, Life Is Sweet, Secrets & Lies, Naked,...
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Sep 2, 2022
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Sep 2, 2022
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Bruce Goldstein
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Bruce Goldstein, Film Forum’s Director of Repertory Programming, takes us on a tour of the NYC locations captured by Lloyd and his Hollywood crew for Speedy – including vivid scenes shot in Coney Island, Midtown, Sutton Place, Yankee Stadium, etc.) Edited and photographed by William Hohauser.
Topics: Harold Lloyd, Speedy, Bruce Goldstein, film history, New York City, filmmaking, cinema, silent...
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Sep 2, 2022
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Sep 2, 2022
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Frank Scheide
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Out-takes from The Count (1916) with historian Frank Scheide.
Topics: Mutual Film Corporation, Kevin Brownlow, Unknown Chaplin, British Film Institute, BFI, Charlie...
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Sep 1, 2022
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Sep 1, 2022
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Billy Wilder
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Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play – technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who goes away to Paris for two years, and...
Topics: Sabrina, Billy Wilder, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Ernest Lehman, Samuel A....
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Krzysztof Kieślowski
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An expanded version of episode VI in Kieślowski's legendary Decalogue, this film examines love, longing and sex through the story of a young postal worker who spies on a promiscuous woman in an adjacent housing project. Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski Written by Krzysztof Kieślowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz Cinematography by Witold Adamek Original Music by Zbigniew Preisner Edited by Ewa Smal Production Design by Magdalena Dipont & Halina Dobrowolska Set Decoration by Robert Czesak...
Topics: A Short Film About Love, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Witold Adamek, Zbigniew...
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Aug 29, 2022
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Aug 29, 2022
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Steven Spielberg
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Director Steven Spielberg discusses the making of Bridge of Spies with Director Martin Scorsese.
Topics: Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Bridge of Spies, Directors Guild of America, filmmaking, film...
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Aug 29, 2022
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, the recently deceased actor who was by any measure one of the key performers of the French New Wave, earned a Best Actor award at the Berlin Film Festival for his elusive, ambiguous role in Robbe-Grillet’s puzzle box third feature, shot in Czechoslovakia and filled with evocations of native son Franz Kafka. A man arrives in town claiming to be a member of the anti-fascist underground, but this shifty, chameleonic stranger proves perfectly capable of changing his...
Topics: The Man Who Lies, L'Homme qui ment, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Igor Luther,...
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Aug 24, 2022
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Aug 24, 2022
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Donald Richie
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Audio commentary featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richi e
Topics: Drunken Angel, Akira Kurosawa, Donald Richie, Japanese cinema, Japanese films, Japanese film,...
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Aug 22, 2022
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Errol Morris
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Errol Morris burst out of the gate with this brilliant debut feature, about two pet cemeteries in Northern California and the people involved with them. Such a description, however, can hardly do justice to the captivating, funny, and enigmatic Gates of Heaven , a film that is about our relationships to our pets, each other, and ourselves. Both sincere and satirical, this is an endlessly surprising study of human nature. Directed, Produced and Edited by Errol Morris Cinematography by Ned...
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Topics: Gates of Heaven, Errol Morris, Ned Burgess, John Giannini, Jay Miracle, pet cemetery, rendering...
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Aug 22, 2022
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
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A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script. Written & Directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet Cinematography by Willy Kurant Music by Michel Fano Edited by Bob Wade Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marie-France Pisier, Christian Barbier, Charles Millot, Daniel Emilfork, Henri Lambert, Gérard Palaprat, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Catherine...
Topics: Trans-Europ-Express, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Willy Kurant, Samy Halfon, Michel Fano, Bob Wade,...
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Aug 20, 2022
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Jean-Luc Godard
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There was before Breathless , and there was after Breathless . Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres that inspired him as a writer for Cahiers du cinéma. With its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, Breathless helped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same. Written & Directed...
Topics: Breathless, À bout de souffle, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Raoul Coutard,...
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Aug 18, 2022
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Aug 18, 2022
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Dino Risi
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The ultimate Italian road comedy, Il sorpasso stars the unlikely pair of Vittorio Gassman and Jean-Louis Trintignant as, respectively, a waggish, freewheeling bachelor and the straitlaced law student he takes on a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. An unpredictable journey that careers from slapstick to tragedy, this film, directed by Dino Risi, is a wildly entertaining commentary on the pleasures and consequences of the good life. A holy grail of commedia all’italiana , Il sorpasso is so...
Topics: Il sorpasso, Dino Risi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola,...
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Aug 17, 2022
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne; Luc Dardenne
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Young, unmarried couple Sonia and Bruno have just had a son, who Sonia names Jimmy. Bruno, who did not visit her while she was in the hospital, scoffs at the notion of what he considers traditional employment, instead eking out a living primarily on petty crimes committed with his fourteen year old associate, Steve. He even sublets Sonia's small apartment while she is in the hospital, he sleeping either in the homeless shelter or squatting in what he calls his "shack" down by the...
Topics: L'Enfant, The Child, Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, social realism, Palme...
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Aug 16, 2022
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Aug 16, 2022
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Jonathan Rosenbaum; Jacques Tati
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from Film Comment , MAY-JUNE 1973, Vol. 9, No. 3 (MAY-JUNE 1973), pp. 36-41
Topics: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Jacques Tati, Film Comment, Film Comment magazine, cinema, comedy, film...
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Aug 15, 2022
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Aug 15, 2022
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Krzysztof Kieślowski
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A shocking, powerful film expanded from episode V of Kieslowski's legendary Decalogue, A Short Film About Killing considers societal violence in its many forms through the story of an idealistic young lawyer and the brutal murderer he is called to defend. Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski Written by Krzysztof Kieślowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz Cinematography by Sławomir Idziak Original Music by Zbigniew Preisner Edited by Ewa Smal Production Design by Halina Dobrowolska Set Decoration by...
Topics: A Short Film About Killing, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Sławomir Idziak, Zbigniew...
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Aug 12, 2022
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Bob Fosse
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A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. Directed by Bob Fosse Written by Jay Presson Allen Based on the musical, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Joe Masteroff Cinematography by Geoffrey Unsworth Adaptation Score by Ralph Burns Editing by David Bretherton Casting by Renate Neuchl Production Design by Rolf Zehetbauer Art Direction by Hans Jürgen Kiebach Set Dressing by Herbert Strabel...
Topics: Cabaret, Bob Fosse, Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson, Fritz Wepper, Joel...
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Aug 12, 2022
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create. Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an...
Topics: Fox and His Friends, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Carl Boehm, Adrian Hoven, Christiane...
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Aug 12, 2022
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Aug 12, 2022
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional register. One of the first and best-loved films of this period in his career is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant , which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director’s roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced...
Topics: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla,...
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Aug 10, 2022
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Aug 10, 2022
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David Bellos
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Jacques Tati's Monsieur Hulot, unmistakable with his pipe, brolly and striped socks, was a creation of sheer slapstick genius that made audiences around the world laugh at the sheer absurdity of life. This biography charts Tati's rise and fall, from his earliest beginnings as a music hall mime during the Depression, to the success of Jour de Fete and Mon Oncle, to Playtime, the grandiose masterpiece that left the once celebrated director bankrupt and begging for equipment to complete his final...
Topics: cinema, Jacques Tati, David Bellos, Jacques Tati: His Life and Art, Monsieur Hulot, Gai dimanche,...
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Aug 10, 2022
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Aug 10, 2022
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Jeffrey Vance
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Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) with commentary by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
Topics: film commentary, audio commentary, commentary track, criterion commentary, Jeffrey Vance, Charles...
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Aug 9, 2022
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Aug 9, 2022
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Jeffrey Vance
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Commentary track for Charles Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925) by Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance
Topics: film commentary, audio commentary, commentary track, criterion commentary, Jeffrey Vance, Charles...
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Aug 4, 2022
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Aug 4, 2022
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Stanley Donen; Peter Stone
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Commentary Track for Charade (1963) featuring director Stanley Donen and screenwriter Peter Stone
Topics: Charade, commentary track, audio commentary, directors commentary, film commentary, criterion...
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Aug 3, 2022
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Aug 3, 2022
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Alexandre Astruc
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A young military officer is a tenant in the house of wealthy citizens. He admires their daughter, who eventually makes his dreams come true by spending the night with him. They have a secret love affair. But as surprisingly as she indulged him, she dies in his arms. Desperate, the officer rides away. Written & Directed by Alexandre Astruc Based on the short story by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Cinematography by Eugen Schüfftan Music by Jean-Jacques Grunenwald Edited by Jean Mitry Production...
Topics: The Crimson Curtain, Le Rideau cramoisi, Alexandre Astruc, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jules...
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Georges Franju
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At his secluded chateau in the French countryside, a brilliant, obsessive doctor (Pierre Brasseur) attempts a radical plastic surgery to restore the beauty of his daughter’s disfigured countenance—at a horrifying price. Eyes Without a Face , directed by the supremely talented Georges Franju, is rare in horror cinema for its odd mixture of the ghastly and the lyrical, and it has been a major influence on the genre in the decades since its release. There are images here—of terror, of gore,...
Topics: Eyes Without a Face, Georges Franju, Les yeux sans visage, Pierre Boileau, Pierre Gascar, Thomas...
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Bruno Dumont
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The transcendent second feature by Bruno Dumont probes the wonder and horror of the human condition through the story of a profoundly alienated police detective (the indelibly sad-eyed Emmanuel Schotté, winner of an upset best actor prize at Cannes for his first film performance) who, while investigating the murder of a young girl, experiences jolting, epiphanous moments of emotional and physical connection. Demonstrating Dumont’s deftness with nonactors and relentlessly frank depiction of...
Topics: L’humanité, Bruno Dumont, Jean Bréhat, Rachid Bouchareb, Yves Cape, Richard Cuvillier, Guy...
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Jul 26, 2022
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Jul 26, 2022
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Ermanno Olmi
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When young Domenico (Sandro Panseri) ventures from the small village of Meda to Milan in search of employment, he finds himself on the bottom rung of the bureaucratic ladder in a huge, faceless company. The prospects are daunting, but Domenico finds reason for hope in the fetching Antonietta (Loredana Detto). A tender coming-of-age story and a sharp observation of dehumanizing corporate enterprise, Ermanno Olmi’s Il posto is a touching and hilarious tale of one young man’s stumbling...
Topics: Il posto, The Job, Ermanno Olmi, Ettore Lombardi, Lamberto Caimi, Carla Colombo, Giuseppe Donato,...
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François Truffaut
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Hailed as one of the finest films ever made, Jules and Jim charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession. The legendary François Truffaut directs, and Jeanne Moreau stars as the alluring and willful Catherine, whose enigmatic smile and passionate nature lure Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) into one of cinema’s most captivating romantic triangles. An exuberant and poignant meditation on freedom, loyalty, and the...
Topics: Jules and Jim, François Truffaut, Jean Gruault, Henri-Pierre Roché, Raoul Coutard, Georges...
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René Clément
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Alain Delon was at his most impossibly beautiful when Purple Noon was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s vicious novel The Talented Mr. Ripley , directed by the versatile René Clément, stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged, devil-may-care acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) back to the United States. What initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon...
Topics: Titanus, Purple Noon, Plein soleil, René Clément, film adaptations, The Talented Mr. Ripley,...
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