Tuesday, January 24, 2012

American Movies and the Politics of Idealism (Media Mondays at the JCC)

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I want to thank Adam Nayman for the shout-out in his piece on these classes in The Grid. - D.D. You like the movies? And you want to hear a...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Vivre le cinéma! Long live Positif! (Cannes Critics Week at the Lightbox)

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"You like the movies: you also know that film is an art. It took fifty years for the professors to admit it; in another half-century st...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Positif Films, since 1952. (two lists)

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For anyone interested in the French film magazine Positif, here are two of their lists that are worth highlighting for a better understandin...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

A Modern Day Kandinsky (On Jean-Marc Vallée's Café de flore)

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Café de flore (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2011) **** (Masterpiece) ***** Jean-Marc Vallée’s Café de flore , which recently played at the Lightbox wi...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

A New Start (Monte Hellman’s Road to Nowhere)

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Title: Road to Nowhere (2011) Director: Monte Hellman Studio: Monterey Video Price: 26.95$ ***** “To begin with a proposition: Monte H...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Happy New Years! (TFR Top Ten of 2011)

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Instead of the typical Top Ten, each entry is organized through thematic categories: (1) the presentation of the unconscious mind through ci...
Thursday, December 15, 2011

La Ronde and some recent Québécois films

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Congratulations to Igor Drljača and Sophie Goyette for their respective short-films The Fuse: Or How I Burned Simon Bolivar and La Ronde ...