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Jul 20, 2018 — American audiences weren’t ready for Barbara Loden’s Wanda when it premiered in 1970. A stark portrait of a working-class woman (played with raw conviction by Loden herself) who breaks free of a miserable marriage, only to find herself on the...
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Jul 13, 2018 — A series in New York presents all ten of the films featuring Hollywood’s most celebrated dance partners.
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Jul 7, 2018 — The writer and director lived a full and robust life both before and after his monumental Shoah.
Jul 4, 2018 — In his big-screen breakthrough, Sam Shepard delivers tenderness, ferocity, and the quiet expressiveness of a silent film star.
Jul 4, 2018 — Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch have always been eager to credit the Dutch cinematographer for teaching them about color and light.
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Jun 28, 2018 — As two festivals in New York survey the best of new Japanese cinema, it’s “Summer in Japan” in Toronto.
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Jun 21, 2018 — The American philosopher was an early proponent of cinema as a subject worthy of serious study.
Jun 13, 2018 — Can a screenwriter influence—even change—the course of film history? With his script for Rashomon (1950), Shinobu Hashimoto, who turned 100 this year, did just that. The film launched its director—Akira Kurosawa—to world fame and brought international audiences to the glory...
Jun 12, 2018 — Among the six movies Lino Brocka directed between 1974 and ’76, there were three landmark works that changed the course of his career and that of Philippine cinema: Weighed but Found Wanting (1974), Manila in the Claws of Light (1975),...
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Jun 7, 2018 — The Ukraine-based filmmaker saw her work lauded and banned.