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Olivier Assayas on the Difference Between Film Writing and Film Criticism

  • By Alec Kubas-Meyer
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  • October 25, 2012 11:35 AM
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The journalist turned director shared some thoughts on the world of movie culture with the Critics Academy.

Missives From the Substitute World

  • By Forrest Cardamenis
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  • October 23, 2012 12:09 PM
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A member of our Critics Academy gets to "the core of the cinema" found in a trio of NYFF titles.

Silence, Golden, in Black and White: 'Tabu,' Gomes, and Cage

  • By Blair McClendon
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  • October 23, 2012 9:52 AM
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On the magic and music of nothingness in a remarkable New York FIlm Festival selection.

(After the) Disaster Films: 'Life of Pi' and 'Flight'

  • By Corey O'Connell
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  • October 22, 2012 3:33 PM
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The New York Film Festival opened with a shipwreck and closed with a plane crash. Here, a member of the Critics Academy considers the films in tandem.

Nothing Surfaces: Cristian Mungiu's 'Beyond the Hills'

  • By Fariha Roisin
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  • October 22, 2012 2:31 PM
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A Critics Academy investigation of a "perilous but rewarding film."

A Critics Academy Conversation: New York Film Festival Wrap-Up

  • By Fariha Roisin and Blair McClendon
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  • October 19, 2012 3:57 PM
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Olivier Assayas Returns to His Summer of Marx

  • By Peter Labuza
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  • October 19, 2012 10:02 AM
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Olivier Assayas' revolutionary cinema -- in two films about revolutionaries.

The Movie Talk Show of Our Time

  • By Caitlin Hughes
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  • October 18, 2012 4:21 PM
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On a disarming, and disarmingly entertaining television series about great film artists.

Like the Last Time I Saw Someone in Love in Macao

  • By Forrest Cardamenis
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  • October 17, 2012 4:31 PM
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Comparing two portraits of urban loneliness from the New York Film Festival.

Looking For Reasons to Believe in 'Life of Pi'

  • By Max Nelson
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  • October 17, 2012 1:05 PM
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On the difference between "It's visual stunning, but..." and "It's visually stunning, because..."

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