| Just as they did ten years ago, James Quandt and TIFF Cinematheque (n?e Cinematheque Ontario) have conducted a worldwide poll of film curators, archivists, historians and programmers for best ("most... | |
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| -- Cinematheque Ontario is doing a series, curated by Jean-Pierre Gorin, on essay films. Also: Andrew Tracy on essay films at Moving Image Source.-- Glenn Kenny on Cinemascope at the Auteurs... | |
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| One of the best and most fascinating things about cinema is the tension between its status as art and its status as industry. There is nothing new about this idea. But the way we construct the... | |
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| I spent a week at the Toronto film festival--more on that in a post coming up next week--and then came down with 'festival exhaustion'. Now I've now been catching up on all the Internet movie reading... | |
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| It was a tragic week: two valuable, inspiring figures of film culture, cinephilia and film criticism are with us no longer. Below, Adrian Martin pens a moving tribute to them. -- Girish.***For... | |
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| The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has posted its entire film list. Here it is, at Darren's TIFF blog, 1st Thursday. As in previous years, I expect to spend a week at the festival,... | |
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| -- Jonathan Rosenbaum's "A la recherche de Luc Moullet: 25 Propositions" is a 1977 piece that will appear in his upcoming book Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia, out from University of Chicago Press... | |
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| Zach Campbell and I have co-edited and participated in a series of letters on blogging, cinephilia and the Internet. The letters appear in a new collection out from Wallflower Press (distributed in... | |
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| In his book-length essay What Happened to Art Criticism? (2003), Stanley Elkins surveys the last 50 years of the field. Contemporary art criticism, he writes, is in a state of crisis. While the field... | |
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| -- The French critic Jean-Andr? Fieschi has died. He is best-known to English-language readers through his brilliant essays, in Richard Roud's 2-volume Cinema: A Critical Dictionary, on Hitchcock,... | |
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