There's Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet. And then there's this Danielle Staub. Am I the only person who's bothered by this?
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From Import/Export. Note the retention of dignity.I saw Ulrich Seidl's massively miserablist Import/Export at Cannes in 2007, from where I wrote: "A quite assured work in the 'I suffered for…
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Speaking of my being mean-spirited, over at The Auteurs' I have a little fun charting the anatomy of an Armond White backpedal, and finding unusual affinities between one of the…
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...The Loud Family's "Ballad Of How You Can All Shut Up" goes out to Movieline's S.T. Vanairsdale and Spout's Christopher Campbell, whose concern-trolling (no links) over the putatively underwhelming trailer…
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A year and change after its Cannes Film Festival debut, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Lorna's Silence is having its U.S. theatrical debut tomorrow. I've seen the picture a few times…
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