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Coming Up

August 5th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 2 Comments

Patient Filmjourney.org readers will be happy to know that my series of life changing events over the past 11 months–including getting married, having a fussy, colicky (but adorable!) child, moving across town, etc–seem to be leveling off and I expect to resume blogging with more regularity shortly.  But if any of my subsequent posts are convoluted [...]

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LAFF update

June 30th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 2 Comments

The Los Angeles Film Festival ended yesterday, and I managed to catch a handful of films despite my beleaguered schedule the past few weeks, which I hope is settling down. Look for some posts the next few days summarizing my viewing, including my two favorite LAFF films, Philippe Ramos’ Captain Ahab and Lance Hammer’s [...]

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New Robert Bresson Bibliography

May 27th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 2 Comments

I’m always proud of the resources Trond Trondsen and I provide at Robert-Bresson.com, and our latest project–years in the making–is an exclusive online Bresson Bibliography that uses Jane Sloan’s 1983 out-of-print bibliography and Shmuel Ben-Gad’s recent bibliographies as a starting point.
As we note on the page: “Users who want to correct or extend the bibliography, [...]

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Under construction…

May 23rd, 2008 by Doug Cummings · 18 Comments

After five years running, Filmjourney.org is undergoing a complete transfer from Weblogger to WordPress, so expect a lot of design changes over the next few days. If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know!

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2008 Moving Image Institute

April 8th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · Comments Off

In a couple of days, I’ll be headed to New York City to attend this year’s Institute in Film Criticism and Feature Writing, who selected me as one of a dozen participating journalists, and they’ve just updated their website with the final schedule, list of participants, etc.
With the demise of so many newspaper and magazine [...]

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A cinephile in the making…

March 11th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · No Comments

Longtime readers of Filmjourney.org may have noticed a decisive lag in posts of late, and the reason is quite simple: my first child, Alexandra Anne Cummings, entered the world two weeks ago, and has been pretty greedy with my time. But we’re settling into a life pattern and the blogging here should resume with [...]

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A new issue of Beyond magazine

January 22nd, 2008 by Doug Cummings · No Comments

The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)
“Now that rampaging dinosaurs, epic catastrophes, and superheroes have become ubiquitous in movies, animation seems as commonplace as news footage. But animation is as old photography itself; it predates ‘motion pictures’ through a variety of Victorian contraptions. And its practitioners were often the most solitary and obsessive filmmakers–visionaries [...]

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Film Comment mention

January 10th, 2008 by Doug Cummings · No Comments

It’s always nice to see one’s name in print–from the latest Film Comment:
“Launched in 2001, Masters of Cinema is run by an eclectic group hailing from the U.S., Canada and England: Jan Bielawski, Doug Cummings, R. Dixon Smith, Trond S. Tronsen, and Nick Wrigley. So which masters tie this collective together? Many celebrated auteurs, but [...]

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Update

December 10th, 2007 by Doug Cummings · No Comments

My TIFF buddy Ken Morefield and I informally chatted on the phone about Blade Runner: The Final Cut for an intervew he has posted at Matthew’s House Project, delving into such issues as directors’ cuts, human values, and science fiction.
Apart from that, I’m immersed in writing up film descriptions for this year’s Palm Springs International [...]

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Silence essay

July 9th, 2007 by Doug Cummings · No Comments

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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