- 11/4/09 /
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Doha-Tribeca Fest’s Six Best Middle Eastern Films
The region has been experiencing a filmmaking renaissance in recent years.
Bilge Ebiri Archive
- 11/2/09 /
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Filmmaker Matt Cibelli’s New Short Film Sure to Please Crane Lovers, Foot Fetishists
The film juxtaposes (beautiful) footage of construction cranes with (enigmatic) audio of women talking about their shoes.
- 10/23/09 /
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Filmmaker Jeremy Workman ‘Makes It Big’
Workman's short following the travails of a talented actress and her difficulties landing a decent movie role.
- 10/22/09 /
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Antichrist and the Ten Most Brutalized Wangs in Movie History
'There's Something About Mary'! 'The Last House on the Left'! 'Santa Sangre'!
- 10/21/09 /
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Director Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt’s J’accuse and Our Visual Illiteracy
"Even 'Casablanca' eventually becomes disappointing because it never changes."
- 10/20/09 /
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Antichrist Director Lars von Trier Reviews His Reviews
"What this person is saying makes perfect sense to me. But I don't think showing contempt in a film is a bad thing."
- 10/16/09 /
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Where the Wild Things Are and Eleven Other Controversy-Causing Kids’ Movies
Some are too intense; others, too visionary. A few, too racist.
- 10/13/09 /
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The Real Ari Gold on His New Movie With Adrian Grenier
"There's another [Ari Gold] out in Eugene, Oregon, who runs an organic bakery ... He's the Ari Gold most unlike the one on TV."
- 10/9/09 /
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Harmony Korine on How Fatherhood Influenced His New Movie About Having Sex With Garbage Cans
"The trash bins began to resemble human forms to me ... They looked very humpable."
- 10/8/09 /
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Trucker’s Michelle Monaghan on Getting Her License
"I made a deal with [the director] that if I wasn't able to get the permit, I wasn't going to make the movie."