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Anthony Kaufman has written about films and the film industry for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribun ...
Cannes Wrap-Up: Cruel Stories of Youth (and How They Haunt their Parents)By Anthony Kaufman Kids these days. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Missing kids, dead kids, wayward kids—they haunted the frames, drove the plots, and without necessarily ever taking center stage at the 61st Cannes Film Festival, stood out as a recurrent presence at this year's prestigious world movie ... read more Posted on 05/27/2008 by anthony Against the Future of Cinema: There is No Such Thing as Small MoviesAgainst the Future of Cinema: There is No Such Thing as Small Movies by Anthony Kaufman Posted on 04/24/2008 by anthony Burdens of Conscience: Three Auteurs Tackle Guilt and Grief in Americaby Anthony Kaufman This Friday marks a triple witching hour for American independent cinema with the release of three idiosyncratic visions from some of our country's foremost auteurs: David Gordon Green's "Snow Angels," Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park" and Ira Sachs's "Married Life." Posted on 03/07/2008 by anthony The Mathematics of Sundance; or, Size Doesn't Matter: Inverse Proportionality in Park City, UtahBy Anthony Kaufman-FC Contributing EditorSomeday, statisticians will study the "Sundance inverse-proportional-law," which can be applied in two, equally, but converse rules: 1) the greater the magnitude of buzz that a film goes into the festival with, the lesser quality said film will be, and 2) the lesser the ... read more Posted on 02/29/2008 by anthony "Why Indie Films Must Resist Hollywood"By Anthony Kaufman - FC CuratorWith the Sundance Film Festival only a few weeks away, now is the time to reflect on what independent film is truly about: party-crashing, Paris Hilton sightings and multi-picture deals. If Sundance once typified the heart of indie film – precious dramas ... read more Posted on 01/03/2008 by anthony 5 Reasons Indie Films Are Better than Hollywood FilmsRisky Rolesby Anthony Kaufman - Curator Emeritus In the mid-1960s, a bold, young New York actor began working with a student filmmaker named Brian De Palma on a number of innovative, in-your-face political satires (The Wedding Party , Greetings, Hi, Mom! ) that thumbed their nose at the ... read more Posted on 11/30/2007 by anthony |
