Cut from Jan 17 Rewind column For cinephiles, “To Save and Project” is the equivalent of browsing a second-hand bookstore. You never know what might turn up. The color version of “Wax Museu...
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While movie directors are regularly given retrospectives, few have been the subject of museum exhibitions. Read more…
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Asked to name his favorite superstar, Jack Smith singled out the appealing madcap known asMario Montez, explaining that “he immediately enlists the sympathy of the audience.” Read more…
Restored on its 40th anniversary in director Robin Hardy’s “final cut” and, courtesy of Rialto, back in release, “The Wicker Man”—explicated here by Graham Fuller—is the culmina...
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“The Bling Ring,” which goes wide this weekend, didn’t get much respect when it had its world premiere last month in Cannes; nor has Sofia Coppola’s fifth feature proved to be a critical...
Les Blank, who died Sunday at age 77, was King of the Folkie Filmmakers, a professional Stranger in Paradise, the ramshackle poet laureate of a lost American gemeinschaft. Read more…
Maya Deren’s “Meshes of the Afternoon”, shot 70 years ago this May in and around a bungalow north of Sunset Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills, is the American avant-garde movie most often sc...
The Oscar balloting continues and with two weeks left before the voting ends, is being handicapped in the trades as though it were America’s second most important national election which, unles...
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Now in its 22nd year, the New York Jewish Film Festival has a long-standing interest in archival material. Read more…
The great paradox of “The Clock” is that it uses the conventions of commercial narrative cinema (the very stuff of time-killing “escapism”) to tell time in real time and thus create an au...