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ReelPolitik
A blog about film and politics, and the politics of filmmaking.
Anthony Kaufman is a film journalist and critic, who has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Village Voice and Slate, and contributes regularly to Variety, indieWIRE, the Wall Street Journal Online and the Utne Reader.
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Articles
- "Piracy May Be an Indie Filmmaker's Best Friend" (Indiewire, October 2011
- "The Decline of Indies on Netflix" (indieWIRE, Sept, 2011)
- "Secretariat" Isn't Hollywood's Only Secretly Conservative Blockbuster" (IFC News, October 2010)
- "Absurdistan: The New Iraq War Cinema" (Village Voice, April 2008)
- "Is Foreign Film The New Endangered Species?" (New York Times, January 2006)
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Can Todd Solondz Survive? "Dark Horse" Still Dark Horse with Distribs
- By Anthony Kaufman
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- December 12, 2011 9:58 AM
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Todd Solondz's "Happiness" and "Life During Wartime" are among my favorite American independent films. While Solondz was a household name in the indie movement in the mid-'90s with "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and the searing social satire "Happiness," his popularity has faded. But I can't think of a director who so brilliantly uncovers social discomfort, and who so effectively combines humor, cruelty and sadness. In a recently published interview in the Financial Times, of all places, Solondz faced up to his unsteady standing in the industry.
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Anthony sir, you're an idiot probably because you have a brain of a 5 year old kid... Thank you
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