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The Dreamy Farewell From Raúl Ruiz, Chile's Greatest Director
The Dreamy Farewell From Raúl Ruiz, Chile's Greatest DirectorPublished: February 8, 2013The great Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, who died in August 2011, has left as his swan song a chimerically cryptic...
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Richard Foreman Tries the Movies (Again)
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Christopher Doyle Interview Part 1: Why Did Ai Weiwei Shave My Head?
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Cut and Paste: Q&A With Collage Filmmaker Lewis Klahr
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Weimar Germany’s Movie Diaspora Spreads Light and Dark at MoMA
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Gold Coast Film Festival Features World Premiere of Makoto Shinkai’s “The...
Gold Coast Film Festival Features World Premiere of Makoto Shinkai’s “The Garden of Words”Published: April 18, 2013The Gold Coast Film Festival (GFCC), Australia’s preeminent pop culture film festival,...
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Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring" Screens at Cannes and Exposes the Dark Side...
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Q&A: Ben Shapiro on "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters"
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Occupation Comedy: “A Pig Across Paris"
Occupation Comedy: “A Pig Across Paris" Published: May 22, 2013Rialto Films, which specializes in forgotten French films from the ‘50s and ‘60s, has recovered another lost gem, or rather semi-precious...
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Refn's "Only God Forgives" Wins Sydney Film Festival Prize
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VIDEO: "Rebel," The Story of a Civil War Heroine
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Age and Beauty Cast a Spell in "The Artist and the Model"
Age and Beauty Cast a Spell in "The Artist and the Model" It’s hard to imagine a movie more pristine than Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s “The Artist and the Model.” An Impressionist festival of...
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Artists in Front of the Camera at Nitehawk Cinema
Artists in Front of the Camera at Nitehawk CinemaDeep amid the wild bush of artisanal cheese shops and towering condos stands Nitehawk Cinema, a cavernous theater located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn....
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“Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”: David Lowry’s Lyrical Outlaw Film
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Hunger Artists: The Odd-Couple Marriage of "Cutie and the Boxer"
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VIDEO: Lil Bub and Friends at the Internet Cat Video Film Festival
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Chris Marker's Classic "Le Joli Mai" Returns to the Cinema
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Mario Montez, Warhol Superstar, Dies at 78
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Premiere: Jennifer Elster's "Back to the Flood," With Alan Cumming
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VIDEO: French Film Artist, Prouvost, Takes Home The Turner Prize
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