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Through the Looking Glasses

By Max Nelson
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October 16, 2012 1:02 PM
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Festivals

Hiler’s lens, it seems, doesn’t always respect the jurisdiction of its peers.

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Cristian Mungiu, Beyond the Films

By Alec Kubas-Meyer
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October 16, 2012 10:20 AM
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Festivals

On the evolving aesthetics of a brilliantly talented young director.

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Garden States: New Jersey, According to David Chase

By Caitlin Hughes
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October 15, 2012 2:10 PM
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Festivals

The attraction to, and repulsion of New Jersey in the films of David Chase and the music of Steven Van Zandt's bandmate, Bruce Springsteen.

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Intruding on the History of Iranian Cinema

By Peter Labuza
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October 12, 2012 6:08 PM
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Blogs

On the film from the New York Film Festival that made one of our Critics Academy members physically ill -- and why that's not a bad thing.

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Small (Cinema)Scope: The Widescreen Imagery of 'Beyond the Hills'

By Blair McClendon
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October 12, 2012 11:51 AM
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Blogs

"Work of art" does not suffice as a label for Cristian Mungiu’s new film, "Beyond The Hills." Cameras have long celebrated labor, of bodies as well as minds, and here the film itself has become "work" in all of its most beautiful, terrifying connotations. This tale of two young women -- friends since their days in an orphanage, who reunite in a monastery -- pushes itself to the point of exhaustion. Yet, it never collapses. It only builds upon itself promising something ever more powerful until the screen finally goes black and the audience, too, has labored long and hard.

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Window Shopping Through Kiarostami and Dorsky

By Max Nelson
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October 11, 2012 12:08 PM
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Blogs

Just one look (or two) in the films of two New York Film Festival auteurs.

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Love and Death in the Films of Michael Haneke

By Forrest Cardamenis
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October 10, 2012 1:06 PM
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Blogs

Sadistic? Maybe. Hard to watch? Sometimes. Familial? Definitely, though it may take a bit of work to notice.

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Dancing in the Rain: Nicole Kidman's Femme Fatales

By Caitlin Hughes
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October 9, 2012 5:00 PM
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Blogs

In the New York Film Festival film "The Paperboy" Nicole Kidman returns to the role of a femme fatale. How her performance compares with the one she played 17 years ago in "To Die For."

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