New York Times:
“The Red Shoes,” a classic 1948 film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a gorgeously haunting work of art.
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New York Times:
An independent film producer spends Sundays with her partner and their daughter, either in their East Village home or on a journey in the city.
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New York Times:
“The Messenger” portrays conflict on the home front: the struggles of those who tell the next of kin their loved ones are dead.
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New York Times:
A new breed of children’s movies play a kind of reverse dress-up, disguising adult anxieties in the costumes of innocent make-believe and fanciful spectacle.
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scanners:
Alfred Hitchcock's "North By Northwest" is just about my favorite movie. No film has ever been more entertaining. (See Glenn Kenny's personal paen to the picture, "Obviously, they've mistaken me for a much shorter man.") And a piece of it is still alive and well in Lake Forest, IL. From The Lake Forester:"I bought it abou (Read More)
New York Times:
Best Buy sells a lot of DVDs, but it is taking another step to get ready for the day when that business shifts online with a deal to stream movies from CinemaNow. (Read More)
New York Times:
What you learn from this film that the conductor Valery Gergiev is one busy guy. What you don’t learn: what specific skills or knowledge make him such a busy guy.
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New York Times:
Twenty-five movies, representing the United States and several other countries, will be part of the fifth annual program at Stony Brook University.
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New York Times:
Jonathan Demme plans to take his adaptation of “Zeitoun,” the best-selling Dave Eggers work, one step further by making the book into an animated feature.
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Observations on film art and FILM ART:
Imitation of Life.DB here:I do not like finding phallic symbols in movies.I grant you that there are some films that deliberately evoke the love wand: Tex Avery cartoons, Frank Tashlin and Jerry Lewis movies. Surely the Wolf in Avery’s Red Hot Riding Hood (1943) has more than a Platonic interest in Red’s stage show.But some (Read More)