We sat down with French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin (My Sex Life, Kings and Queen) to talk about his sprawling new fable of family dysfunction, A CHRISTMAS TALE. Continue reading.
BY DAMON SMITH
The rise of national cinema in the Balkan region over the past decade should be heartening to serious film lovers and anyone with even a vague knowledge of the bloody conflicts that engulfed Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo, and neighboring precincts after the breakup of Tito’s Yugoslavia in the ...
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BY SIMON AUGUSTINE
“Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or in prison, and did not take care of you?” Then he will answer, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of ...
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It’s difficult, if not impossible, to pick a favorite moment in Negative Space, the collected writings on film by the late painter-critic Manny Farber (co-written from 1975 onward with his partner Patricia Patterson). Brash arguments, heavily allusive turns of phrase, and coruscating insights await a first-time (or repeat) reader almost ... Continue reading
What is it about Reel 13's obsession with Canada? I can't seem to figure it out. It's a New York-based TV show – there are ... Continue reading
Believe it or not, I had not seen this film before and therefore, it was probably my most anticipated Reel 13 film yet. After all, ... Continue reading
MANITO, the newest Reel 13 Indie about Puerto Rican brothers trying to escape their families' dark past and make ends meet in a mostly Hispanic ... Continue reading
I don’t have very much to say about FETCH, the first animated short to be aired by Reel 13 (all of this week’s contestants on ... Continue reading
Shamed by Pixar’s far superior CG animation and box-office hegemony, Walt Disney Studios gobbled up the pacesetting animavericks back in ...
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While many DPs labor in obscurity, cinematographer extraordinaire Ellen Kuras, whose credits include Summer of Sam, Neil Young: Heart of ...
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The circus is in town! Witty, irreverent, bawdy, and side-splittingly funny, the Pythons (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry ...
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In the perfect afterlife, we’d all be making movies. That’s the idea behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gentle, melancholic drama, about a ...
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The Story of the Ramones: 4:15pm, Wednesday, November 19, TMCe: Thank God we didn’t have to wait until the end ...
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