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, Oct 18, 2007
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"The Most Beautiful Six Minutes in the History of Cinema"
The most beautiful six minutes in the history of cinema? A rare deleted scene from Orson Welles's "Don Quixote."
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Jan 28, 2007
A brief dispatch from Rotterdam
A few films seen at the Rotterdam film festival
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Jun 28, 2007
A Staggering Statistic
News of the Turner Classic Movies database, a comprehensive new Internet movie database that draws on the American Film Institute catalog.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Dec 29, 2006
Abbas Kiarostami's Five is finally available
You can finally see Kiarostami's most recent feature if you order the French DVD.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, May 10, 2007
Adolescent sex in Oberhausen
A saucy Swiss film in Oberhausen
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Feb 2, 2007
An introduction to Cinefile (from Toulouse)
Cinephile is a new Web site devoted to alternative film in Chicago.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Dec 1, 2007
Anna Biller in Torino
A singular American independent filmmaker at the Torino film festival
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Dec 14, 2006
Avoiding Movies About Torture
Some people like to watch scenes of torture, some don't
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Jan 12, 2007
Benjamin Schwarz on David Thomson: A defense of Orson Welles
Atlantic editor Benjamin Schwarz's inordinate praise for biographer and film critic David Thomson raises the question of what exactly Schwarz is extolling.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Dec 23, 2006
But what about the people of Kazakhstan?
Why is "Borat"'s intolerance toward the people of Kazakhstan OK?
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Apr 23, 2007
Celebrating southern cinema
The Oxford American's second special issue on southern movies is out with a free DVD.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Apr 6, 2007
Clifford Irving and the Watergate break-in
Was Clifford Irving's phony autobiography of Howard Hughes partly responsible for the Watergate break-in?
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Mar 6, 2007
Denby on Kiarostami and Resnais
New Yorker film critic David Denby knocked Taste of Cherry in 1998, recommends it in 2007, and continues to slight Alain Resnais.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Dec 8, 2006
Difficult Becomes Popular
Some difficult art flms are becoming increasingly popular
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Jul 2, 2007
Edward Yang has died at 59
On the deaths of Edward Yang and Ousmane Sembene
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Nov 14, 2006
Film history that is open to the present
A retrospective at the Austrian Film Museum is devoted to films made over the past few years.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, May 28, 2007
Footnotes to Out 1
Online resources illuminate Jacques Rivette's 12-hour masterpiece Out 1.
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Jun 4, 2007
For all of us who didn't make it to Cannes...
A new DVD offers 32 three-minute films commissioned for the 60th Cannes film festival
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Dec 18, 2006
Four Reasons Not to Trust Ten-Best Lists
Do we really love lists, or are critics' polls an industry tool to resell and presell goods?
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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, Apr 29, 2007
Golden links
More treasures available online
by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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