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Dec 3, 2008

Dec 3, 2008 — Gliding on silvery reels of steel, and tricked out with Lars von Trier’s panoply of visual effects, the film ravishes with its elaborately storyboarded tunnel vision.

Dec 2, 2008 — The Danish director explains movie magic and confesses his carnal sins in this impassioned artist statement written to accompany the films that make up his Europe Trilogy

Dec 2, 2008 — Starting today, Federico Fellini’s enduring autobiographical Amarcord is back on the big screen, in a newly restored print from Janus Films, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno. After a two-week run at New York’s Film Forum, Fellini’s colorful portrait...

Dec 2, 2008 — Ian Thomson has written a fascinating piece on Pier Paolo Pasolini for the Times Online, on the occasion of the publication of two books on the Italian filmmaker-writer-poet: John David Rhodes’s new study of Pasolini’s Rome, Stupendous, Miserable City, and...

Dec 1, 2008 — Today marks the first-ever home video release of Sam Fuller’s controversial, long-unseen antiracist allegory White Dog, the story of an innocent canine trained to attack blacks, and the black animal trainer who tries to cure him. Get a taste of...

Nov 27, 2008 — Despite Samuel Fuller’s career-long penchant for giving controversial subjects a punchy, exploitation-movie spin, his twenty-first feature was the first to suffer outright suppression.

Nov 27, 2008 — A genuine cause célèbre, adapted from Romain Gary’s 1970 nonfiction novel, Samuel Fuller’s late work is an unusually blunt and suggestively metaphoric account of American racism.

Nov 27, 2008 — An enormous welter of insoluble problems is on display in Luis Buñuel’s classic—the ending solves nothing; the story just begins again.

Nov 24, 2008 — Filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker (Dont Look Back, Monterey Pop, The War Room) and Chris Hegedus (The War Room, Startup.com), creative partners and husband and wife, offer their favorites. Read Pennebaker’s top ten here.Photo by Kit Pennebaker