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Basic Instinct
By
Miriam Bale
May 27, 2011
The force of Jennifer Jones’s desire overpowered those who sought to possess her
Deadly Youth
By
Chuck Stephens
May 26, 2011
Legendary Japanese New Wave master Nagisa Oshima returns with
Gohatto
, starring Takeshi Kitano. Chuck Stephens looks at the roots of this mesmerizing, mysterious meditation on samurai death and desire.
Revolt Into Style: Les Idoles
By
Sam Di Iorio
May 26, 2011
Les Idoles
finds Pierre Clémenti at the crossroads of pop fabulousness and the Society of the Spectacle
The Man Who Wasn’t There
By
Pablo Suárez
, Translated by Marcela Goglio
May 26, 2011
Argentine filmmaker Ariel Rotter’s
The Other
takes a detour into existential malaise
Guerilla Filmmaking on an Epic Scale
By
Amy Taubin
May 26, 2011
Che
comandante Steven Soderbergh talks strategy and tactics with Amy Taubin
Fatalistic Tendency
By
Nathan Lee
May 26, 2011
Gus Van Sant’s
Milk
takes its place alongside a recent spate of cinematic death trips
On Heaven as it is in Earth
By
José Teodoro
May 26, 2011
Silent Light
brings the transcendental metaphysics of Mexican provocateur Carlos Reygadas out into the open
Master of the House
By
Nicolas Rapold
May 26, 2011
A giant of world cinema’s golden age, Satyajit Ray held up a mirror to Bengal’s middle class
Hard Wired
By
Amy Taubin
May 25, 2011
Kathryn Bigelow’s
The Hurt Locker
packs a powerful experiential punch
Against the Grain
By
Thom Andersen
May 19, 2011
Adding a touch of noir, the Dardenne Brothers rethink neorealism in
Lorna’s Silence
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