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This prolific screenwriter collaborated with Akira Kurosawa through the most fruitful period of that director’s career; accidentally helped birth STAR WARS; and with RASHOMON, may have permanently redefined the concept and structure of narrative itself. This month we look at…
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TIFF loves TIFFR
Very happy to get TIFF and TIFFR a little closer together for (their) tenth anniversary, as TIFF ’18 is about to begin! More here: https://www.tiff.net/the-review/we-love-tiffr/
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Review: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
My very first review for The Substream, reprinted here.
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ANTHONY BOURDAIN (1956-2018)
The news of Anthony Bourdain’s sudden death by suicide in June rolled across the world like a wave. The Deathwatch team dives into his work and holds up a life well lived.
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Blu-ray Review: King Hu Makes Sword-Sharp Wuxia in DRAGON INN
Made in 1967, Hu’s wuxia thriller hits the Criterion Collection this week at spine #937. The film has been restored in 4K. Colour in the outdoor scenes is stunning: the scorched electric blues of the sky against the mountains, or…
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Deathwatch: ANNE V. COATES (1925-2018)
Wanna start a fight with a cinephile? Ask whether the match cut (which is NOT a match cut) from Lawrence of Arabia, or the bone cut from 2001: A Space Odyssey, is the greatest single edit of all time. Regardless,…
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Blu-ray Review: Time, Memory, and Parents Confound in Victor Erice’s EL SUR
“Voiceover narration from Estrella as an adult — a woman piecing together things she half-understood as a child — gives the film the aura of a Michael Ondaatje novel. Estrella’s father Agustin, played with careworn rebelliousness by Italian actor Omero…
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Blu-ray Review: A double dose of Cristian Mungiu’s New Romanian Cinema comes to the Criterion Collection
Beautifully photographed in austere but nimble long takes that pierce the daily goings-on of the monastery, Beyond the Hills is something of a revelation to me. It locates its story in a community of women by focusing on the fraught relationship between…
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I am enjoying the CRAP out of my Patreon.
The tiers are more expensive than anyone will ever pay (at least, at a monthly subscription rate) and I’m quite disappointed no one went in for “Barbossa’s Daughter,” but having a Patreon page that almost no one supports is still…
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Deathwatch: ISAO TAKAHATA (1935-2018)
Co-founder of Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata passed away last month having directed far less features than his better-known (over here anyway) counterpart, Hayao Miyazaki. But here’s the little secret: every one of Takahata’s films (of which we look at Grave…
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