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House [1977] by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Available in a DVD edition, with an anamorphic presentation of its original 1.55:1 ratio. The cinema rev...

I woke up this morning to find an email from Andy Rector, via Samuel Bréan who wrote: "In this week's issue of Les Inrockuptibles ...

From Jack Webb's Dragnet . Episode 42: "The Big Departure" [1968]. (Transcript via Badge714.com .) — FRIDAY: "Yeah, wel...

A great interview with the great Andrew Bujalski by the great Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at The Auteurs Notebook here . ===

I've had a bunch of conversations with friends since January 27th regarding the latest Apple device, and most of these chats have found ...

Just released from the magnificent Versus Entertainment label in Spain: a gorgeous and beautifully designed new DVD edition of Jean Renoir...

"I think that for years we have recognized the author by what he writes. An author will always — you will do the same, Chris — a writer...

"The stuff that I do that's really good is when I have the right intention. It's not necessarily the material as much as it is ...

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Two tributes to Eric Rohmer I've translated, from the respective blogs of Louis Skorecki and Michel Mourlet : === On Rohmer by Louis Sk...

Alexandra Duguay was a spokeswoman for the United Nations. For the past seven months, she had been living in Haiti with her boyfriend Marc-A...

Pedro Costa, 2009: detail from a photograph by Valérie Massadian [full version viewable at Independencia ]: Independencia have posted a thr...

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January 11, 2010: Eric Rohmer is dead at 89. Eric Rohmer, 2006: Rohmer's work extolled and exemplified the dignities of the human race ...

From the end of Adam Gopnik's essay on Van Gogh in the January 4, 2010 issue of The New Yorker — "The turn toward moral luck puts ...

I've more or less polished off a spate of work deadlines for the pre-New Year holiday stretch, so I can devote a few minutes to posting ...

Abel Ferrara and Madonna Ciccone in attendance at the IFP Gotham Awards in 1995, on the occasion, I'm presuming, of Ferrara's The Ad...

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