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NDNF Interview: Benjamin Crotty
Domestic life on Fort Buchanan follows few strictures, least of all “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In Benjamin Crotty’s queer take on military melodrama, it’s all about the girl talk. The wayward army wives...
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Interview: Gregg Turkington
Gregg Turkington is the star and co-writer of Entertainment, the new film by Rick Alverson, in whose film The Comedy he had a small but memorable role, discussing the immaculate cleanliness of hobo...
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Interview: Larry Clark (Part One)
“Are you down with Larry Clark?” this magazine wrote in 2002, by way of prelude to a discussion of Ken Park that underlined the particularly divisive nature of Clark’s art and personality. This was...
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Film of the Week: While We’re Young
There’s a moment in Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young that makes you do a double take. First you think, “Neat cultural apercu,” then you worry that perhaps Baumbach hit the Zeitgeist Analysis button a...
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Interview: Lisandro Alonso
“His most important film to date,” the Argentine critic Quintín wrote in FILM COMMENT about Jauja, Lisandro Alonso’s feature (partly) about a 19th-century Danish engineer’s trek into the Patagonian...
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Deep Focus: White God
Set in a contemporary Hungarian state that decides to enforce canine racial purity, White God features the tantalizing spectacle of a 200-strong dog pack wreaking revenge on petty bureaucrats who are...
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Interview: Larry Clark (Part Two)
Read the first half of this interview. The Smell of Us It’s interesting to look at Marfa Girl and The Smell of Us side by side. The Smell of Us is maybe the most stylistically radical thing that...
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Interview: Bill Pankow
Editor of nine Brian De Palma films, Bill Pankow remains “an actor’s editor” who observes and preserves the gestalt of a performance, making cuts that create a direct line of communication to the...
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Bombast: Posthumous Performance
Furious 7 At around 3:30 p.m. on the afternoon of November 30, 2013, a 605-horsepower 2005 Porsche Carrera GT went out of control after failing to maneuver around an uphill curve while traveling...
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Kitchen Sink Cinema: Artist-Run Film Laboratories
page from Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Film Cookbooklet, by Helen Hill, 2005 There are roughly 65 film labs left in the world, of which around 20 are in North America. These ranks, along with...
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Festivals: Punto de Vista
“While still a student, Napoleon had written on the last page of his geography book: 'St. Helena. Small island.' This may have been what we call a coincidence, but the thought must certainly have...
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Interview: Bill & Turner Ross
In just three documentaries, Bill and Turner Ross have cultivated a distinct perspective on American iconography, revealing locations at once remote and familiar, if only through the prism of popular...
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Deep Focus: Furious 7
Everything about the success of the Fast and Furious series is counterintuitive and unconventional. That’s what makes it low-down delightful. In do-or-die fights, the moviemakers let you see their...
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NDNF Interview: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
There’s a perfectly executed scene in Goodnight Mommy, in which the twin protagonists get cleverly meta in a game of “who am I?” with their mother. “Mama” the boys (Lukas and Elias Schwarz) write on a...
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Interview: James B. Harris
“[T]he sullen, impulsive films of James B. Harris have been consistently overlooked and underseen. Genuine B noirs in the purest non-reflexive sense of the word, Harris’s films are inglorious,...
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Bombast: D.W. Griffith’s America
The phrase “The Great American Novel” remains in the popular parlance, in no small part because of its frequent use in The Great American Comic Strip, Charles Schultz’s Peanuts. Like most language...
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Obscure Pleasures: The Films of Walerian Borowczyk runs through April 9 at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Read the full text here.
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Interview: Tsai Ming-liang
Twenty-three years can turn a rebellious Neon God into Xuanzang—from restless souls wandering around Ximending (the old city center of Taipei) in Rebels of the Neon God (92) to the pure spiritual idea...
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Film of the Week: Rebels of the Neon God
If you’re a cinephile with an interest in Southeast Asia, chances are you’ll think twice before ever hiring a Taiwanese plumber. Blame director Tsai Ming-liang, in whose films it never rains but it...
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Art of the Real: City Ways
Androids Dream While taking stock of four films at the 2015 edition of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real series, I kept returning to the last line of Ellison’s Invisible Man: “Who...
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