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If you backed me into a corner and forced me to name my favorite contemporary filmmaker, I might blurt out the Dardenne brothers, and not just because I was lucky enough to interview them a couple years ago. Dans l’ObscuritÈ, their new, three-minute short above (for [...]

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I’ve just seen a ghost . . . …ditions Gallimard in France has recently released a stunningly-produced DVD of Robert Bresson’s debut feature, Les Anges du PÈchÈ (1943), complete with Anne Wiazemsky’s elaborate (but unsubtitled) 2004 documentary, Anges 1943, Les histoire d’un film. The film was digitally restored and played as part of the [...]

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The first half of my essay for the imminent Masters of Cinema Series DVD release, Masahiro Shinoda’s Silence (Chinmoku, 1971), can now be found here. I guess Eureka’s thinking is to offer those who purchase the release an added perk (beyond seeing the film itself, of course).
This was a fun essay to work on, [...]

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My final wrap-up of the Los Angeles Film Festival:

Daratt (Dry Season)
Continuing my exploration of the excellent New Crowned Hope series, I caught up with Mahamat Saleh Haroun’s entry from Chad, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival last year. The filmmaker builds off the themes of vengeance and forgiveness in [...]

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