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I haven’t been blogging much this week because I’ve been tapped to furiously write catalogue entries for the Palm Springs International Film Festival (January 6-17), my favorite festival in the Los Angeles vicinity because it intentionally screens all 50-odd international films submitted to AMPAS that are invariably and clumsily reduced to five random nominees in [...]

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Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been slowly sampling one of the most entertaining–and important–DVD releases of the year, the National Film Preservation Foundation’s More Treasures From the American Film Archives box set of (mostly) silent films from 1894 to 1931. (A previous collection was released in 2000.) It’s 50 [...]

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Last week, It’s All True (1993), a documentary about Orson Welles’ “failed” 1942 documentary of the same name, was released on DVD. On the heels of filming his second feature, The Magnificent Ambersons, 26-year-old Welles was asked by the State Department to film a Technicolor documentary in South America in the hopes of strengthening [...]

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For the Bressonphiles among us (and who isn’t?), I published a capsule review of Au hasard Balthazar in the latest catalogue of the mail-order company MovieMail in the UK; I’ve posted it below.
The good news is that the region 0 PAL discs recently released by Nouveaux Pictures (Balthazar and Mouchette, both of which have been [...]

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