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Required Reading: “In Praise of Termites” from The Believer
“Manny Farber’s film writing has several distinctive features, the three most important being: (1) It is more concerned with form and composition than with performance, narrative, or theme; (2) it is… more →
Amanda McCormick
The filmlinc blog is 1! (And we're moving to bigger digs)
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wrote 3 years ago: We knew there’d be stories. We’re talking about a 40-year-old organization here, the Upp … more →
Muse of the "Metropolitan:" A (Short) Conversation with Whit Stillman
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wrote 3 years ago: It wasn’t hard to track down Whit Stillman. Though it was hard to get a word in. Before the sc … more →
Uncommon times call for uncommon films: join us in saluting First Run Features
wrote 3 years ago: Let’s face it: sometimes we get tired of seeing the same-old multiplex blockbuster, clutching our co … more →
Video: Amreeka director Cherien Dabis talks to the Film Society's Richard Peña
wrote 3 years ago: From Erin Crumpacker, a video of the Q&A between Richard Peña and Amreeka director Cherien Dabis … more →
From the Film Talk, a special interview with Elliott Gould
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wrote 3 years ago: See Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice this Friday and Sunday Great new stuff from our friends at … more →
Led by Resnais, Almodovar and a newcomer called Precious, the New York Film Festival slate is up!
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wrote 3 years ago: Just announced: the official New York Film Festival slate! Let the chatter commence! The slate natur … more →
A HUGE opportunity for filmmakers: Could YOUR trailer open the New York Film Festival?
wrote 3 years ago: Fancy yourself a budding Scorsese? The chance to appear at a major festival may be closer than you t … more →
Join us for a debate on the future of conservatism Thursday at the Film Society
wrote 3 years ago: Ever wondered where the country’s grass-roots conservative movement came from, and whether the … more →
Bollywood Bard: Macbeth in the Mumbai Mafia
wrote 3 years ago: The Bard Goes Global takes Shakespeare to India with Vishal Bharadwaj’s Maqbool, an innovative rendi … more →
Looking back on our Shakespeare series: Titus Ambivalence
wrote 3 years ago: I love Shakespeare. I am one of those people who would have happily endured a lifetime of chamber po … more →
From The Film Talk, a special podcast about Ang Lee
wrote 3 years ago: From our friends at The Film Talk, a podcast about Ang Lee, who’s the subject of a retrospecti … more →
Ang Lee's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: The Dangers of Being in Love
wrote 3 years ago: Ang Lee’s western melodrama Brokeback Mountain is a film of wide-open spaces, lingering on the majes … more →
Ang Lee's career in grid form
wrote 3 years ago: Everything about the career of the director who made both Hulk and The Ice Storm screams: “DON … more →
A month of duels: Gomorrah vs. The Sopranos
wrote 3 years ago: The mafia ain’t what Coppola made it out to be. In Gomorrah, a NYFF 2008 selection that is pla … more →
Hamlet, After the Fall
wrote 3 years ago: When Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet came out in 2000, it seemed a vision of the excess of America … more →
Can The Film Society rock? You bet -- on Thursday, July 30th, It Might Get Loud!
wrote 3 years ago: What do Jack White, The Edge and Jimmy Page have in common? A borderline psychotic obsession with th … more →
TONIGHT! Orson Welles's MACBETH: Shadows, Fog, and a Small Budget
wrote 3 years ago: In the hands of Orson Welles, Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is an expressionistic, dream-like waltz throug … more →
THIS MONDAY! Film Comment Selects Director Park Chan-wook's THIRST
wrote 3 years ago: Model Catholic priest Sang-hyun (Song Kong-ho, The Host (2006)) has a calling to serve those teeteri … more →
A Month of Duels: Polanski vs. Welles
wrote 3 years ago: Both were once much loved and then ultimately cast out by the Hollywood establishment. Both have mad … more →
