July 2009
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Garden Party
Film and video highlights at the 2009 Venice Biennale
by Mark Peranson posted July 7, 2009
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Zen Pulp, Pt 2
Lifetime subscriptions: Michael Mann's honor-bound individualists
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted July 3, 2009
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Zen Pulp, Pt 1
Vice precedent: Michael Mann's existential TV drama
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted July 1, 2009
June 2009
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The Poor Soul of Television
Dirty talk shows, TV parties, Dr. Videovich, and other public access jewels
by Leah Churner posted June 25, 2009
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Out of the Vast Wasteland
The early years of public access cable television in New York City
by Leah Churner posted June 18, 2009
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Flashes of Brilliance
A brief history of the flicker film
by Michael Joshua Rowin posted June 11, 2009
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Auto Focus
The grim contemporary relevance of Paul Schrader's 1978 union noir
by Saul Austerlitz posted June 9, 2009
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Visions of Ludwig
Cinema’s fascination with the mad king of Bavaria
by Bilge Ebiri posted June 4, 2009
May 2009
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Medium Cool
Wrestling with video art (whatever that means)
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted May 28, 2009
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Doctor's Orders
How a dead serious novel became the nightmare satire of Strangelove
by Bilge Ebiri posted May 26, 2009
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Endless Summer
The late Edward Yang's monument to his people, nation, and time
by Michael Atkinson posted May 18, 2009
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The Dream Life
Edward Gorey's silent screenplay of an unmade film
by Ed Park posted May 14, 2009
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Present Tense
Benjamin Button and a passive hero's route toward happiness
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted May 8, 2009
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Time Regained
Remembering Julien Duvivier, a casualty of auteurism
by Michael Atkinson posted May 4, 2009
April 2009
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Exquisite Corpus
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest mysterious objects
by Mark Peranson posted April 30, 2009
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Collecting His Thoughts
Remarks on the writing of Hollis Frampton
by Bruce Jenkins posted April 21, 2009
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Caught on Camera
The photographic investigations of Blow-Up and (nostalgia)
by Michael Joshua Rowin posted April 21, 2009
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The Substance of Style, Pt 5
The prologue to The Royal Tenenbaums, annotated
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted April 13, 2009
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Talk About the Passions
Looking beyond the culture-war controversies of two Jesus movies
by Joshua Land posted April 9, 2009
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The Substance of Style, Pt 4
Examining the Wes Anderson–J.D. Salinger connection
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted April 9, 2009
