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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)
ReelPolitik
Latin American Cinema Needs Your Help, and the Top 124 Films of the Decade
- By Anthony Kaufman
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- October 13, 2010 2:16 AM
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- 1 Comment
Just a few days away from Cinema Tropical's "Best Latin American Films of the Decade" series at the IFC Center -- an estimable program featuring some of my own personal faves ("The Headless Woman," "The Holy Girl," "La Cienaga," "Silent Light," and "Y Tu Mama Tambien") -- Carlos Gutierrez, co-founding director of Cinema Tropical, has sent an email plea for help.
The Girl with the Foreign Language Franchise
- By Anthony Kaufman
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- July 7, 2010 1:07 AM
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- 0 Comments
With the release on DVD of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" yesterday and the theatrical distribution of sequel "The Girl Who Played With Fire" in theaters on Friday, I examine the Swedish phenom for IFC.com in this article "The Girl with the Foreign Language Franchise":
How Middlebrow is the Foreign Oscar Branch? Very.
- By Anthony Kaufman
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- January 17, 2008 2:55 AM
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"Secret Sunshine" Best Undistributed, But for How Long?
- By Anthony Kaufman
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- December 19, 2007 4:03 AM
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Recent Comments
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