While we're on the subject of films one sees at festivals, some of which do and some of which don't, necessarily, fall under the category, such as it is, of…
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Julie Sokolowski in Bruno Dumont's Hadewijch. Hadewijch, the new feature from the...what's the word? "interesting?" "problematic?" depends on who you talk to, I guess, I myself think both or either…
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(...and pushed, too) My friend Gary Lucas, one of the most dazzlingly inventive guitarists working today, will perform his original solo-guitar score for the 1931 Spanish-language mutation of Dracula this…
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When I'm on Twitter—which I have to say I don't recommend, now that I'm in it more or less for keeps I'm almost entirely convinced it's the devil, although I…
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Mike Leigh's casts, all about the glamour, as usual; from left, Jim Broadbent, Leslie Manville, Oliver Maltman in Another Year One of my favorite critical observations, one I go back…
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One aspect of the recent films of Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira I get the biggest charge from is their discursiveness. The nearly 102-year-old filmmaker has been working at near-Fassbinder…
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