September 2012
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Two in a Million
The city romance of Paul Fejos's Lonesome
by Aaron Cutler posted September 13, 2012
March 2012
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Not So Long Ago
A look back at the '90s films of Whit Stillman
by Colin Beckett posted March 29, 2012
January 2012
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Space Exploration
Patrick Keiller on landscape cinema and the problem of dwelling
by Leo Goldsmith posted January 18, 2012
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The 1 Percent Solution
The contemporary resonances of Christoph Hochhäusler’s The City Below
by Michael Sicinski posted January 13, 2012
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Capitalist Punishment
Moral dilemmas and financial disaster in Johnnie To's Life Without Principle
by Shelly Kraicer posted January 12, 2012
December 2011
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Train Spotting
James Gray on his Viscontian Queens epic The Yards
by Jordan Mintzer posted December 14, 2011
January 2011
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Tough Love
On Lino Ventura, the working-class hero who bridged low pulp and high art
by Richard Porton posted January 18, 2011
August 2010
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Rethinking Stanley Kramer
How a message-movie humanist became an auteurist punching bag
by Saul Austerlitz posted August 25, 2010
October 2009
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Perpetual Outsiders
The immigrant experience in the cinema of Elia Kazan
by Bilge Ebiri posted October 9, 2009
September 2009
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A Revolution on Screen, Pt 2
Chinese cinema's "Seventeen Years": The flowering before the fall
by Kevin B. Lee posted September 28, 2009
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A Revolution on Screen, Pt 1
Movies for the masses—and the smuggling of art
by Kevin B. Lee posted September 24, 2009
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Inconvenient Women
Fanny Brawne, Bright Star, and Jane Campion's conspicuous heroines
by Jessica Winter posted September 14, 2009
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Fleeting Glimpses
The three-film universe of Sadao Yamanaka
by Chris Fujiwara posted September 11, 2009
July 2009
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A Guy Thing
Macho loneliness and masculine insecurity in Eastbound and Down
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted July 29, 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
April 2009
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The Substance of Style, Pt 3
Examining the Wes Anderson–Hal Ashby connection
by Matt Zoller Seitz posted April 6, 2009
November 2008
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Foreign Correspondence
An appreciation of John Cook, Austrian cinema's great Canadian auteur
by Christoph Huber posted November 24, 2008
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Children of Paradise
How to watch Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies and why
by Michael Atkinson posted November 20, 2008
October 2008
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Mission Impossible
The melodramas of Vincente Minnelli, master of illusion and disillusionment
by Chris Fujiwara posted October 30, 2008
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Design for Living
The campy realism of Mitchell Leisen, a forgotten master of disguise
by David Cairns posted October 23, 2008
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First Person Plural
The search for happiness in Mike Leigh's comedies of manners
by Michael Atkinson posted October 17, 2008