September 2012
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Two in a Million
The city romance of Paul Fejos's Lonesome
by Aaron Cutler posted September 13, 2012
July 2012
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Our Ancestors, the Gauls . . .
A People’s History in The Battle of Algiers
by Aaron Cutler and Mariana Shellard posted July 6, 2012
March 2012
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Signs in Rotation
This Is Not a Film: prisoner's diary, aesthetic experiment, and unfinished story
by Aaron Cutler and Mariana Shellard posted March 5, 2012
February 2012
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Key Man Agonistes
The good bad luck of Robert Mulligan’s The Nickel Ride
by Peter Tonguette posted February 9, 2012
January 2012
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Laws of Desire
What did David Cronenberg's Videodrome get right about us?
by Tom McCormack posted January 26, 2012
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The Fallen
Love and revolution in Raya Martin's Buenas Noches, España
by Phil Coldiron posted January 13, 2012
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The 1 Percent Solution
The contemporary resonances of Christoph Hochhäusler’s The City Below
by Michael Sicinski posted January 13, 2012
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Capitalist Punishment
Moral dilemmas and financial disaster in Johnnie To's Life Without Principle
by Shelly Kraicer posted January 12, 2012
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Her Own Devices
The quiet mystery and harsh poetry of Valérie Massadian's Nana
by Robert Koehler posted January 12, 2012
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Family Viewing
Gastón Solnicki's Papirosen and the reinvention of the home movie
by Mark Peranson posted January 11, 2012
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Twilight Zone
Shadows and fog in the in-between world of Théo Court's Ocaso
by Robert Koehler posted January 11, 2012
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A Nude by Garrel
That Summer, the representation of beauty, and the law of love
by Eugenio Renzi posted January 10, 2012
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Darkness Doubled
Grandrieux, Adachi, and documentary portraiture as a meeting of minds
by Leo Goldsmith posted January 7, 2012
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Ghost World
History as occult knowledge in Abrantes and Schmidt's Palaces of Pity
by Colin Beckett posted January 7, 2012
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Island Time
The memory project of Gonçalo Tocha's It's the Earth Not the Moon
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted January 7, 2012
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Unplugged
The digital disjunction of Mark Jackson's Without
by Phil Coldiron posted January 7, 2012
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Glass Houses
The anti-allegorical impulse in Andrei Zvyagintsev's Elena
by Michael Sicinski posted January 6, 2012
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Jungle Fever
Madness and malaise in Chantal Akerman's Almayer's Folly
by Andréa Picard posted January 6, 2012
December 2011
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Hang It on a Wall
What it means to call Barry Lyndon a museum piece
by Chris Wisniewski posted December 27, 2011
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The World According to God
The strange truths of Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma
by Michael Atkinson posted December 12, 2011
October 2011
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Time Overlaps Itself
James Benning's John Krieg and the act of sustained recollection
by C.W. Winter posted October 7, 2011
August 2011
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Accidents Happen
The neglected James Bridges and the making of The China Syndrome
by Peter Tonguette posted August 31, 2011
July 2011
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Acid Test
The curiosity of Otto Preminger's Skidoo
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted July 20, 2011
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Word Pictures
Marks and meaning in David Gatten's Secret History of the Dividing Line
by Tom McCormack posted July 18, 2011
June 2011
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Film Socialisme Annotated
A guided tour through Jean-Luc Godard's most allusive film
by David Phelps posted June 7, 2011
April 2011
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Sea Change
The displacements of The Forgotten Space
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted April 8, 2011
March 2011
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Follow the Leader
Revisiting the Oliver Stone biopics Nixon and Alexander
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted March 11, 2011
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Copying the Copy
A second look at Abbas Kiarostami's The Report
by Aaron Cutler posted March 10, 2011
December 2009
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Double Feature
The fragility of innocence in Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Gran Torino
by Chris Fujiwara posted December 1, 2009
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A Free Man
The tough questions of Clint Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted December 1, 2009
November 2009
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Battle Lines
The epic intimacy of John Woo's Red Cliff
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted November 23, 2009
September 2009
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Inconvenient Women
Fanny Brawne, Bright Star, and Jane Campion's conspicuous heroines
by Jessica Winter posted September 14, 2009
June 2009
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Auto Focus
The grim contemporary relevance of Paul Schrader's 1978 union noir
by Saul Austerlitz posted June 9, 2009
May 2009
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Endless Summer
The late Edward Yang's monument to his people, nation, and time
by Michael Atkinson posted May 18, 2009
March 2009
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Being Julia
The self-aware star turn of Duplicity heroine Julia Roberts
by David Schwartz posted March 23, 2009
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It's All True
The examined—and obsessively documented—life of Michel Auder
by Jason McBride posted March 17, 2009
February 2009
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Rare Bird
Gallant Journey and the limits of auteurism
by Andrew Tracy posted February 17, 2009
October 2008
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English Speakers
The prison of language in Terrence Malick's The New World
by Bilge Ebiri posted October 27, 2008
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Fear and Self-Loathing
Oliver Stone Pt. 3: Nixon and the unmaking of a president
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 16, 2008
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Unreliable Narratives
Oliver Stone Pt. 2: JFK and the power of counter-myth
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 15, 2008
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Arsenic and Apple Pie
Oliver Stone Pt. 1: Patriotism and propaganda in Born on the Fourth of July
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 14, 2008
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The Master Touch
Orson Welles's baroque thriller—and final Hollywood movie—turns 50
by Tom Charity posted October 9, 2008
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This Way, Myth
A new Richard Linklater film mines the Orson Welles legend
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted October 9, 2008
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Turn, Turn, Burn
Guy Debord's In girum.... and the destruction of illusion
by Keith Sanborn posted October 3, 2008
September 2008
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The Struggle to Believe
Nagisa Oshima and the crisis of representation
by Chris Fujiwara posted September 26, 2008
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Mr. Vengeance
Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas's autobiographical trilogy
by Michael Atkinson posted September 22, 2008
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The Past Becomes Past
Jacques Tourneur's memory of the thought of a western
by Chris Fujiwara posted September 15, 2008
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Divine Tragicomedies
The two movies that started Leo McCarey's amazing '30s run
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted September 4, 2008
August 2008
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This Land Is Your Land
John Gianvito's Profit motive and the tradition of the political landscape film
by Ed Halter posted August 4, 2008
July 2008
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On the Prowl
The choreography of conflict in Joseph Losey's Blind Date
by David Cairns posted July 24, 2008
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Dystopian Idol
The ignored prophecies of Peter Watkins's Privilege
by Michael Atkinson posted July 24, 2008
June 2008
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Seeing Doubles
An anniversary reappraisal of Philip Kaufman's Body Snatchers remake
by Annette Insdorf posted June 26, 2008
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Korea at the Crossroads
The anti-imperialist melodrama of Shin Sang-ok's A Flower in Hell
by Michael Sicinski posted June 12, 2008