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From the online publication of The Making of F.W. Murnau's TABU: The Outtakes Edition. Deutsch Kinemathek. Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.
View ArticleBefore Babel
Film conversation between Artavazd Peleshian and Jean-Luc GodardOn the periphery of the official and commercial circuits, a network based on complicity and admiration has led to Peleshian's films being...
View ArticleHitchcock’s Under Capricorn by Jacques Rivette
A 1950 article by Jacques Rivette from La Gazette du cinéma, here in its first English translation, by Ted Fendt. (Maximum thanks to him.)Hitchcock’s Under CapricornBy Jacques RivetteThe critical...
View ArticleKARL MARX: REPORTER by Murray Kempton
The posting of this article is dedicated to my dear brother, Matthew Rector.Dr. Charles Blitzer's Introduction to The American Journalism of Marx and Engels, a selection of thirty-three of the more...
View ArticleFORD EYES
Excerpt from Tag Gallagher's "Then Came a Dream" (2011), on John Ford's IRON HORSE (1924). An extra on the Masters of Cinema/Eureka edition of IRON HORSE.
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D.W. Griffith told a little story not so very long ago. It was about himself, and it possessed the qualities his pictures possess … whimsy and pain and laughter, intertwined … but home. “A castle of...
View ArticleRest In Peace, General Vo Nguyen Giap.
Died today at age 102."One must say that in the classroom of History, the imperialists are really poor students."
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Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the...
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Centro Historico (2012, Kaurismaki, Costa, Erice, Oliveira) will screen this Friday, October 25th, 4pm, at the California Institute of the Arts, BIJOU theater.
View ArticleKindness to Horses
The hooves stomped faster,singing as they trod:— Grip.Grab.Rob.Grub. —Wind-fostered,ice-shod, the street skidded.Onto its side, a horsetoppled, and immediately,the loafers gathered,as crowds of...
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