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I’m late to the blogging game, but I still recognize a good one when I see it. Having enjoyed David Hudson’s blog entries for the excellent online DVD rental company, GreenCine.com, for some time now, I was especially pleased by his entry today regarding the Pentagon’s recent screening of Gillo Pontecorvo’s classic The Battle [...]

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Last weekend marked the latest Cinema Legacy (”how great filmmakers inspire great filmmakers”) event sponsored by the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, The Secret Garden) presented French filmmaker AgnËs Varda’s provocative Le Bonheur (1964). Not only do both filmmakers share the same first name, but they’re [...]

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Just a quick, exhilerating announcement this morning. According to DVDFile, Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s masterful Apu Trilogy is coming to North American DVD on October 28:

From the [Columbia] vaults come a handful of classic catalog titles: Pather Panchali, Aparajito, The World of Apu,…. All are presented in 4:3 full screen only. The only extras [...]

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Last night, our campus film club screened Ermanno Olmi’s 1978 Cannes-winning “peasant epic,” The Tree of Wooden Clogs. Shot in the Italian countryside with non-professional actors (neo-neorealism?), the film recreates a palpable sense of the daily life of turn-of-the-century sharecroppers in its lyrical, leisurely-paced imagery of muddy fields and tired faces. But it’s [...]

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This whole blogging thing is new to me, so I struggle with wondering how much to divulge about myself and how much to remain resolutely focused on films. Some blogs resemble odes to navel-gazing streams-of-consciousness; others are more topical.
So I’m back after a few days traveling to my home state of Missouri, where we’ve [...]

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“Silence doesn’t exist anymore; you can’t find it.  That, for me, would make it impossible to live.”–Robert Bresson
(And check out Acquarello’s new design for his excellent site, Strictly Film School.)

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For those living near Chicago (I’m not sure how many of us that includes), Facets is presenting an almost-complete retrospective of Aki Kaurismaki, starting this Friday. Through the gracious help of a friend, I was able to watch a number of his films on video. Obviously not the best way to watch Kaurismaki’s work, but [...]

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It’s amazing how many movies slip through the cracks, even for seasoned movie buffs like myself who actively scan the local exhibition circuit on a weekly basis. I learned long ago the most efficient way for me to keep track of what’s playing in town is to keep a screening calendar, and anytime I [...]

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October’s going to be a great month for cinephiles. Being one of the co-administrators of robert-bresson.com, I’m privy to news items from time to time, and here’s the latest: Rialto Pictures informs us they will premiere their new print of Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966) on October 17 at the Film Forum in [...]

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As I alluded to last week, I’m going through a difficult emotional season these days. It’s funny how movies can at once transport us through artificial realms of drama and simultaneously reflect our existing realities back to us. A few nights ago, I planned to watch the new movie, Northfork, so I purchased [...]

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