Weekly Roundup: Samuel Beckett’s letter to Eisenstein, David Lynch’s “new” short film, and the winners of Hot Docs
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Weekly Roundup: Video store elegy, Mad Max: Fury Road oral history, and Roger Deakins’ podcast
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Weekly Roundup: Spike Lee’s latest joint, “post-disaster artist” Josh Trank, and VIFF’s new podcast
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Against the Grain: The Films of MDFF
One confronts many of the same formal questions with both directors’ films: a foundational use of documentary elements, deployed in such a way that a line between fiction and documentary isn’t easy to find. Continue reading
Modern Times: Francis Ford Coppola’s One from the Heart
Nearly four decades after the film’s original release, One from the Heart continues to stand for many as the breaking point in the director’s career, dividing triumphs like The Godfather from follies like The Godfather Part 3. Continue reading
The Material and Ephemeral: Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela
In building the film on a scaffold of Vitalina’s half-remembered stories, Costa ignores distinctions between reality and unreality, truth and fiction. Continue reading
Weekly Roundup: César Awards Controversy, Berlinale Highlights, Hollywood-China Trade War
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