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    Repertory Pick: Abbas Kiarostami in Chicago

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    Talking with Screenwriter Hung Hung About A Brighter Summer Day By Andrew Chan

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    Remembering Chantal Akerman: A Dry and Moving Intensity By Ivone Margulies

  • What’s Happening on Hulu

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    This week, we’re taking a look back at some films that portray the complex narratives of the Immigrant Experience for our free festival on Hulu. From a documentary exploration into the lives of working-class immigrants in the United States to a . . . Read more »

    Hulu, Video

    • Posted on March 25, 2016
  • Did You See This?

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    Director Ben Wheatley discusses his favorite films, which include Godard’s Weekend. After watching it, he says, “I almost felt like I’d had the stack of cards in my head rearranged and reprogrammed.” Read more »

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    • Posted on March 25, 2016
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  • Repertory Pick: Abbas Kiarostami in Chicago

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    This week, the University of Chicago’s Doc Films kicks off a two-month-long Abbas Kiarostami series, starting with the Iranian director’s 1990 masterwork Close-up. Taken from the real-life story of Hossain Sabzian, a young man put on trial in . . . Read more »

    Big Screen, Video

    • Posted on March 24, 2016
  • Talking with Screenwriter Hung Hung About A Brighter Summer Day

    By Andrew Chan

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    With Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day finally available in the U.S., screenwriter Hung Hung talks about his working relationship with Yang, the film’s truncated distribution and slow path to acclaim, and the real-life roots of its narrative. . . . Read more »

    Interviews

    • Posted on March 24, 2016
  • Remembering Chantal Akerman: A Dry and Moving Intensity

    By Ivone Margulies

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    We had come to expect Chantal Akerman’s periodic gifts of small and large cinematic gems. Certain of this flow, we were devastated when, all too abruptly, we were forced to think of her latest film, so beautiful, as her last.
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    Features

    • Posted on March 23, 2016
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  • A Brighter Summer Day: Coming of Age in Taipei

    By Godfrey Cheshire

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    Edward Yang’s masterful 1991 adolescent epic telegraphs the tensions and turbulence of 1960s Taiwan, when youth pop culture and teen street gangs became a major societal force. Read more »

    Film Essays

    • Posted on March 22, 2016
  • 10 Things I Learned: A Brighter Summer Day

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    10 Things I Learned

    • Posted on March 21, 2016
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  • What’s Happening on Hulu

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    Some films’ soundtracks so enliven their stories that they practically become characters in their own right. This week, with our free festival on Hulu, Noteworthy Scores, we’re celebrating a selection of such memorably musical films. Our picks, . . . Read more »

    Hulu, Video

    • Posted on March 18, 2016
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  • Impure Cinema: A Conversation with Arnaud Desplechin

    By Hillary Weston

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    A sense of cacophonous emotion and manic fervor tends to permeate the works of Arnaud Desplechin. But when I sat down with him at the Film Society of Lincoln Center back in October, on the morning after the New York Film Festival premiere of . . . Read more »

    Interviews

    • Posted on March 18, 2016
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  • The BFI’s List of the Best LGBT Films of All Time

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    For the past thirty years, the British Film Institute has been honoring the best in contemporary and classic LGBT cinema from around the world, with its annual BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival. In celebration of the festival’s three-decade . . . Read more »

    Clippings

    • Posted on March 18, 2016
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  • Repertory Pick: Ozu in Pittsburgh

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    This weekend, Row House Cinema will launch the first-ever Pittsburgh Japanese Film Festival, featuring four diverse films by some of Japan’s most beloved filmmakers—including Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu. Among the films screening during the . . . Read more »

    Big Screen

    • Posted on March 17, 2016
  • Angela Lansbury on the Importance of Imagination

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    Warning! For anyone who has yet to see The Manchurian Candidate, the following video contains one rather large spoiler—but if anyone is going to spoil the surprise, it might as well be the great Angela Lansbury. Read more »

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    • Posted on March 17, 2016
  • Laurie Anderson Gives a Concert for Dogs on Colbert

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    We were thrilled to present the digital premiere earlier this month of Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson’s moving meditation on love, loss, and terriers, which continues its exclusive limited engagement on iTunes and Vudu through March 29. Last . . . Read more »

    Clippings, Video

    • Posted on March 17, 2016
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  • The Manchurian Candidate: Dread Center

    By Howard Hampton

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    Set during the height of McCarthy-era paranoia and arriving in 1962, in the middle of the Cuban Missile Crisis, John Frankenheimer’s high-anxiety Communist conspiracy thriller tapped into the darkest fears of Cold War America.
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    Film Essays

    • Posted on March 15, 2016
  • From the Cronenberg Archives

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    Today, we’re celebrating horror maestro David Cronenberg’s seventy-third birthday with a look back at his brilliantly twisted oeuvre. Read more »

    Clippings

    • Posted on March 15, 2016
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  • Reintroducing John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate

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    • Posted on March 14, 2016
  • Isabelle Huppert on the Emotional Power of Cinema

    By Hillary Weston

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    Valley of Love (2015), dir. Guillaume Nicloux “Filmmaking is a collective assemblage of desires,” said Isabelle Huppert when we sat down to talk on a recent morning. We were speaking about how she picks her roles, and how her own intuition . . . Read more »

    Interviews

    • Posted on March 11, 2016
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  • What’s Happening on Hulu

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    There’s no easy way to avoid the pains of growing up, whether you spend your childhood on the rough streets of 1970s Glasgow or in the isolated forests of rural France. But the heartache of youth can inspire poignant works of art, and it’s . . . Read more »

    Hulu

    • Posted on March 11, 2016
  • Art of a Dog

    By Jessica Barrow Dawson

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    Consider the story of Lolabelle, the rat terrier cast by Laurie Anderson—her human companion—in Anderson’s stirring, tender film Heart of a Dog. In extraordinary footage, Anderson reveals her four-legged friend’s remarkable ability to both . . . Read more »

    Features

    • Posted on March 11, 2016
  • The Library of America Goes to the Movies

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    From its very earliest years, the cinema has offered a uniquely powerful tool for artists seeking to give new life to great works of literature. The creations of literary icons have served as the inspiration for some of film’s most memorable . . . Read more »

    Clippings

    • Posted on March 10, 2016
  • Repertory Pick: Ingmar Bergman in Alaska

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    This weekend, the Gold Town Nickelodeon in Juneau, Alaska, will be showing one of Ingmar Bergman’s most fascinating films, The Magic Flute. In the film, which is an exquisite reimagining of Mozart’s 1791 opera of the same title, Bergman adeptly . . . Read more »

    Big Screen

    • Posted on March 10, 2016
  • Jacques Rivette’s Early Influence

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    As late, beloved French auteur Jacques Rivette came of age in the early 1950s, a thriving film culture in Paris was developing around the journal Cahiers du cinéma, for which Rivette wrote (and was later editor in chief). Rivette soon began . . . Read more »

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    • Posted on March 09, 2016
  • Jan Troell, Enduring Film Pioneer

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    Earlier this year we were proud to release Swedish director Jan Troell’s two-film epic, The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972). The films, starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow, are based on Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg’s four-part . . . Read more »

    Clippings

    • Posted on March 09, 2016
  • Paris Belongs to Us: Nothing Took Place but the Place

    By Luc Sante

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    Paris Belongs to Us marked the genesis of Jacques Rivette’s unique filmmaking style—introducing visual and narrative elements that Rivette would build on over the course of his long career. Read more »

    Film Essays

    • Posted on March 08, 2016
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  • What’s Happening on Hulu

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    This week, for our free festival on Hulu, we’re highlighting a selection of cinema celebrations of architectural delights. The structures on display range from the midcentury-modern homes of Paris’s suburbs to the towering beauty of Rome’s EUR . . . Read more »

    Announcements, Hulu, Video

    • Posted on March 04, 2016
  • Designing for the Screen: An Interview with Jack Fisk

    By Hillary Weston

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    Over the past half century, production designer Jack Fisk has created some of cinema’s most memorable on-screen worlds—from the farmlands of early-twentieth-century Texas to the byways of contemporary Los Angeles. Read more »

    Interviews

    • Posted on March 04, 2016
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  • Repertory Pick: Whit Stillman in Ohio

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    This week, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, is kicking off a Whit Stillman career retrospective. Beginning tomorrow and scheduled through March 19, the series will run the gamut from Stillman’s 1990 directorial debut . . . Read more »

    Big Screen, Video

    • Posted on March 03, 2016
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  • The Many Kids of Charlie Chaplin

    By Stephen Winer

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    By the time Charlie Chaplin began work on what would be his first feature-length film, in 1919, he had been sneaking up to the longer format for some time. Read more »

    Features, Web Exclusives

    • Posted on March 03, 2016
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  • Revisiting the Cinema of Anne-Marie Miéville

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    Over at the Sight & Sound blog, the BFI has just published an insightful and exhaustive article by Albertine Fox about the brilliant career of Anne-Marie Miéville, the Swiss-born multimedia artist and director of several acclaimed features, . . . Read more »

    Clippings

    • Posted on March 02, 2016
  • Hooked on Film: David Thomson on Howard Hawks’s Red River

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    • Posted on February 29, 2016
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