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Thursday, May 14, 2015

"I like to film reality when it's beautiful, when it's ugly, when it's unpleasant, I don't care." - An Interview with Olivier Assayas

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André Téchiné's  Rendez-vous was a breakthrough film for both screenwriter Olivier Assayas and star Juliette Binoche in 1985, but ov...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

A Fuller Life

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Before he had ever stepped behind a camera, Samuel Fuller had led a life that was worthy of being documented. A newspaper boy at the age...
Monday, May 04, 2015

Louder than Words: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy on The Tribe

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“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothing yet!” When Al Jolson startled cinemagoers with that epochal line in 1927’s  The...
Monday, March 16, 2015

Dreaming Bigger, Screaming Louder: Xavier Dolan on Mommy

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In May 2009, a young man named Xavier Dolan arrived in Cannes to present his new film, the story of a troubled relationship between a moth...
Friday, January 09, 2015

"For a film to work I think it has to work on both a literal and an abstract level." - An Interview with Frederick Wiseman

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In a career spanning six decades, Frederick Wiseman has established one of the most eclectic and vital bodies of work in cinema. Wiseman...
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