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Baumbach’s Beginnings

With his critically acclaimed new comedy Frances Ha now in theaters, check out Noah Baumbach’s hilarious debut, Kicking and Screaming, which also concerns twentysomethings trying to (or trying not to) grow up.
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Three Reasons: Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler’s documentary-like tale of social unrest thrusts the viewer into late-1960s America.
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August Titles!

Introducing two American masterpieces (John Frankenheimer’s suspenseful Seconds and Ernst Lubitsch’s satirical To Be or Not to Be) and two richly humane Satyajit Ray classics (The Big City, Charulata). Plus, The Earrings of Madame de . . . turns Blu and Early Fassbinder on Eclipse.
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To Be or Not to Be
Ernst Lubitsch
The Ice Storm
Ang Lee
Seconds
John Frankenheimer
Marketa Lazarová
František Vlácil
Charulata
Satyajit Ray
Medium Cool
Haskell Wexler
The Life of Oharu
Kenji Mizoguchi
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
Babette’s Feast
Gabriel Axel
Things to Come
William Cameron Menzies
Early Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Safety Last!
Fred Newmeyer…
Life Is Sweet
Mike Leigh
Shoah
Claude Lanzmann
The Devil’s Backbone
Guillermo del Toro
The Earrings of Madame de . . .
Max Ophuls
The Big City
Satyajit Ray
Lord of the Flies
Peter Brook

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Ministry of Fear
Fritz Lang
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Michael Powell…
Sansho the Bailiff
Kenji Mizoguchi
3:10 to Yuma
Delmer Daves
Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg
Monsieur Verdoux
Charles Chaplin
Badlands
Terrence Malick
Richard III
Laurence Olivier
Kobayashi Against the System
Masaki Kobayashi
Repo Man
Alex Cox
Pierre Etaix
Pierre Etaix
Jubal
Delmer Daves
On the Waterfront
Elia Kazan
Band of Outsiders
Jean-Luc Godard
The Blob
Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
Chronicle of a Summer
Jean Rouch…
A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson
Gate of Hell
Teinosuke Kinugasa

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3:10 to Yuma: Curious Distances

By Kent Jones • 14 May 2013 • 0 Comments
Delmer Daves’s classic western is psychologically probing, magnificently shot, and fascinatingly ambiguous. Read more »
Jubal: Awakened to Goodness

By Kent Jones • 13 May 2013 • 1 Comment
Delmer Daves’s visually majestic, emotionally charged western finds its drama in the decency of its characters. Read more »
Band of Outsiders: Madison-sur-Seine

By Joshua Clover • 07 May 2013 • 0 Comments
Jean-Luc Godard’s frenetic, romantic crime caper is an America-obsessed pastiche of references and breezy set pieces. Read more »

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