So last night I did my duty as a member of the five-person jury for the competition section of the fabulous New York Asian Film Festival. We had fifteen films…
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It’s a little known fact in the movie industry that most cinema releases serve no greater purpose than to provide some advance publicity for an inevitable DVD release. This week…
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Time to draw your attention to a couple of bits of media that I've enjoyed recently, namely an excellent article by William Langewiesche in Vanity Fair about Captain "Sully" Sullenberger…
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Not to keep harping on this Last Year At Marienbad disc, but its existence does give one the opportunity to see if there really is a shot-by-shot pastiche from Gilda…
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Among the many fantastic extras on Criterion's terrific new edition of Last Year At Marienbad is director Alain Resnais' thoroughly lovely 1959 documentary short, Le chant du Styrene, a gripping account…
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