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Film
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A Summer Place: Céline Sciamma’s Tomboy
by Courtney A. Fiske November 28, 2011
Tomboy paints that moment, poised on the cusp of adolescence, when make-believe can still be guileless.
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Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
by Michael Joshua Rowin October 17, 2011
To say Optic Antics, the first book devoted entirely to the films of Ken Jacobs, is long overdue would constitute a gross understatement.
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The Film of Tomorrow will be an Act of War
by Jonathon Kyle Sturgeon October 17, 2011
Rossellini uses cheating, lying, stealing, and dying — the elements of melodrama — to reveal a new reality defined by surveillance and reconnaissance, occupation and militarism.
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Pragmatic Illusionism: John Smith on DVD
by Colin Beckett October 17, 2011
His best movies devour their own boundaries and turn ever outward: toward life and the stories by which we try to understand it.
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Introduction to Idiom Film
by Tom McCormack October 17, 2011
We’d like to get polemical. We want to get argumentative. Film criticism has become toothless.
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow
by Courtney A. Fiske September 12, 2011
He scrawls the Hebraic name “Schechina” across the top of a canvas, pencils the digits one through ten on a stiffened white dress, and shouts.
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