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Meetin' WA (1986)
One of the least remarked upon attributes of Jean-Luc Godard is how thoroughly he mastered the medium of video production...
Max reprend sa liberté (1912)
The beauty of this affable domestic morality play by Max Linder rests entirely with the actor/director's seemingly inexhaustible ability to balance his ineffably graceful screen presence against...
Across the Universe (Paul Thomas Anderson; 1998)
Amid every rash, destructive, feral thing that happens in the mere four minutes of Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Across the Universe' (1998), the overall bearing of Fiona Apple throughout is perhaps...
Television Delivers People (1973)
There's nothing in Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman's 'Television Delivers People' that we don't already know, but in 1973 it was a bit more novel...
Karin's ansikte (1984)
For a director who sought time and again to restate a past he could only have known from hearsay, 1984's 'Karin's ansikte', one of the director's few shorter works and one of his most moving,...
Vienna (1968 1969)
What transpires when a world-class film artist is consigned to his or her own devices indefinitely? If your name is Orson Welles you do guest shots on Variety shows, wax nostalgic on a once...
Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1939)
In 1939, Joseph Losey became a walking emblem of what is still a relentlessly paradoxical and fitful accomodation between the imperatives of art and progressive ideas...
My Name is Oona (1969)
Far less critical of gender roles than her other work (that which I've seen at any rate), Gunvor Nelson's My Name is Oona emerged as one of the loveliest works in American cinema of the late...
Sette Canne, un vestito (1949)
The industrialization of Northern Italy after the Second World War, and all its hideous consequences, was only one of the subtexts that informed, to one degree or another, a huge amount of...
Danses cosmopolites à transformation (1902)
Neither eye-popping nor formally complex (relatively speaking, I hasten to add), Danses cosmopolites à transformation nevertheless has a charm that was very often hidden within the visual...
Hands Across Iraq (2008)
On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush interrupted the primetime programming lineups of all major television networks and a handful of .....
Nerone (1909)
Produced by Turin's Film Ambrosio, Luigi Maggi's 'Nerone' may not be as formally elaborate as the epics of Mario Caserini and Giovanni Pastrone . . ...
And Biograph Was There . . . #3
On November 23, 1903, while dalmations and palookas in firehouses across America smoldered with envy, American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. cameraman F.S...