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VIDEO ESSAY: Sight and Sound Film Poll - Jonathan Rosenbaum on SATANTANGO

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From a personal standpoint, it is fitting that the second video of this series, following the opening tribute to Roger Ebert, features Jonathan Rosenbaum. It was through Ebert that I discovered Rosenbaum's writing 14 years ago, when his weekly reviews for The Chicago Reader made Ebert's list of "20 Essential Movie Websites." Since then, no writer has done more to expand my knowledge and develop my sensibilities on film.
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  • By Jonathan Rosenbaum and Kevin B. Lee
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  • May 24, 2012 11:31 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY - Hijacking Michael Haneke

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The most exacting filmmaker of our time, Michael Haneke brings a new film to Cannes and a new question to the table: To truly see a Michael Haneke film, should we be prepared to see through it?
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • May 23, 2012 5:01 PM
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VIDEO ESSAY: MEN IN BLACK: Three Reasons for Criterion Consideration

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For this month’s Criterion Consideration, coming up with a suitable equivalent to Barry Sonnenfeld's latest film, "Men in Black III," was a bit of a challenge.
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  • By Robert Nishimura
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  • May 23, 2012 9:41 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY - The Sight and Sound Film Poll: An International Tribute to Roger Ebert and His Favorite Films

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Press Play introduces Sight and Sound Film Poll: Critics' Picks, a series of video essays featuring prominent film critics on films they selected for Sight and Sound magazine's poll of the greatest films of all time. New videos will premiere each week until the poll results are announced later this summer.
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  • By Various Contributors
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  • May 22, 2012 12:58 PM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Law and Disorder in Ying Liang’s THE OTHER HALF

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Exiled from China in the wake of last week’s premiere of WHEN NIGHT FALLS, Ying Liang has built a resume of brave challenges to the system. A video essay takes a close look at the best of those, THE OTHER HALF.
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • May 21, 2012 9:38 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY: DIAL K FOR KUROSAWA

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The perfect crime, the wrong man, the speeding train, and the surprising MacGuffin. "High and Low" has all the best elements of a great Alfred Hitchcock film. But it isn’t Hitchcock—it’s Akira Kurosawa, the Japanese director better known for his samurai flicks and complex moral tales.
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  • By Peter Labuza
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  • May 15, 2012 1:44 PM
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GIRLS RECAP 5: HARD BEING EASY

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More like "Hard Writing Consistently." What *was* that?
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  • By Sarah D. Bunting
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  • May 13, 2012 10:55 PM
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  • 9 Comments
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VIDEO ESSAY - Deceptive Surfaces: The Films of Christian Petzold

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Film history, class consciousness merge in the brilliantly no-nonsense filmmaking of Christian Petzold.
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • May 13, 2012 9:25 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Depp Shadows: Tim Burton's Cinema

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“Basically Johnny Depp is playing Tim Burton in all his movies.” – Scott Rudin (Producer of "Sleepy Hollow") This ubiquitous quote by Rudin is often the throwaway summation found in most writings on, and dissections of, the cinematic works of Tim Burton with Johnny Depp. Which is a shame, really.
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  • By Nelson Carvajal
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  • May 11, 2012 9:55 AM
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VIDEO ESSAY - Utopia Online?

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Watching two short documentaries from Sam Green’s once-live UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS performance online makes one viewer wonder: Is utopia a state of mind?
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  • By Kevin B. Lee
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  • May 10, 2012 10:16 PM
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