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Jun 6, 2013 — Repertory PicksOne doesn’t necessarily think of ascetic cinema master Robert Bresson as an action director, but he undoubtedly made one of the most elegant and suspenseful prison break movies of all time. His 1956 masterpiece A Man Escaped, based on...
May 24, 2013 — Did You See This?• It’s a Richard Linklater kind of week: chatting with the man today . . . • . . . and yesterday (in 1995, with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke) • Plus, another nineties revival: Dazed and...
Sneak Peeks
May 15, 2013 — Delmer Daves’s 3:10 to Yuma, driven by compelling mano a mano suspense, is quite a yarn. It’s no surprise, then, that it’s based on a story by the estimable Elmore Leonard. Known predominantly for his crime fiction such as Get...
Short Takes
May 6, 2013 — The films of Max Ophuls, whose birthday we celebrate today, are luxuriously cinematic. His camera glides and tracks and cranes; we viewers swoon. But, as Molly Haskell has written, “the roving camera and the visual glissandos are never virtuoso flourishes...
Apr 30, 2013 — Nicholas Stoller directed the comedies Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, and The Five-Year Engagement and was a writer and executive producer on The Muppets. While his list—which goes to eleven—tends toward some of the funnier films in...
The dynamic, Tokyo-born star was convincing whether playing a mercenary lone wolf or a heartsick love interest, a hero or a villain, in a sleek suit or samurai robes, and just as comfortable blending in to an ensemble as commanding...
Short Takes
Mar 5, 2013 — Today we tip our hats to the debonair, mischievous Rex Harrison, born on March 5, 1908. Perhaps remembered best for his role as the arrogant impresario Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, the 1964 movie musical version of Pygmalion, Harrison...
Jan 29, 2013 — Christopher Nolan is the director of Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, and The Dark Knight Rises.
In Theaters
Jan 17, 2013 — Repertory PicksThe Brattle Theatre in Cambridge is heading south this month—way south. The legendary repertory house is kicking off a series called Dead of Winter: Satan on Screen, which ranges from comedy to horror to drama in its selection of...
In Theaters
Dec 13, 2012 — Repertory PicksThe Museum of Modern Art in New York is holding its first full retrospective of the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini in more than twenty years. Starting tonight and running through January 5, the series will include not only...