December 2009
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Double Feature
The fragility of innocence in Clint Eastwood's Changeling and Gran Torino
by Chris Fujiwara posted December 1, 2009
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A Free Man
The tough questions of Clint Eastwood's White Hunter, Black Heart
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted December 1, 2009
November 2009
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Battle Lines
The epic intimacy of John Woo's Red Cliff
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted November 23, 2009
September 2009
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Inconvenient Women
Fanny Brawne, Bright Star, and Jane Campion's conspicuous heroines
by Jessica Winter posted September 14, 2009
June 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
May 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
March 2009
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Being Julia
The self-aware star turn of Duplicity heroine Julia Roberts
by David Schwartz posted March 23, 2009
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It's All True
The examined—and obsessively documented—life of Michel Auder
by Jason McBride posted March 17, 2009
February 2009
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Rare Bird
Gallant Journey and the limits of auteurism
by Andrew Tracy posted February 17, 2009
October 2008
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English Speakers
The prison of language in Terrence Malick's The New World
by Bilge Ebiri posted October 27, 2008
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Fear and Self-Loathing
Oliver Stone Pt. 3: Nixon and the unmaking of a president
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 16, 2008
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Unreliable Narratives
Oliver Stone Pt. 2: JFK and the power of counter-myth
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 15, 2008
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Arsenic and Apple Pie
Oliver Stone Pt. 1: Patriotism and propaganda in Born on the Fourth of July
by Kevin B. Lee and Matt Zoller Seitz posted October 14, 2008
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The Master Touch
Orson Welles's baroque thriller—and final Hollywood movie—turns 50
by Tom Charity posted October 9, 2008
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This Way, Myth
A new Richard Linklater film mines the Orson Welles legend
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted October 9, 2008
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Turn, Turn, Burn
Guy Debord's In girum.... and the destruction of illusion
by Keith Sanborn posted October 3, 2008
September 2008
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The Struggle to Believe
Nagisa Oshima and the crisis of representation
by Chris Fujiwara posted September 26, 2008
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Mr. Vengeance
Scottish filmmaker Bill Douglas's autobiographical trilogy
by Michael Atkinson posted September 22, 2008
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The Past Becomes Past
Jacques Tourneur's memory of the thought of a western
by Chris Fujiwara posted September 15, 2008
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Divine Tragicomedies
The two movies that started Leo McCarey's amazing '30s run
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted September 4, 2008
August 2008
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This Land Is Your Land
John Gianvito's Profit motive and the tradition of the political landscape film
by Ed Halter posted August 4, 2008
July 2008
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On the Prowl
The choreography of conflict in Joseph Losey's Blind Date
by David Cairns posted July 24, 2008
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Dystopian Idol
The ignored prophecies of Peter Watkins's Privilege
by Michael Atkinson posted July 24, 2008
June 2008
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Seeing Doubles
An anniversary reappraisal of Philip Kaufman's Body Snatchers remake
by Annette Insdorf posted June 26, 2008
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Korea at the Crossroads
The anti-imperialist melodrama of Shin Sang-ok's A Flower in Hell
by Michael Sicinski posted June 12, 2008