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The ten best films of … 1930
The Blue Angel (1930) Kristin here: The end of this horrendous year is fast approaching, though we are still facing a long struggle to end the pandemic. On a happier note, it is also time for a little...
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Madalena, Rosalind, and Suzanna: More Rotterdam revelations
Madalena (2021). DB here: A mixure of moods and tones for our final communiqué from the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Its fiftieth year has been a lively one. The Madalena mystery Madalena...
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Wisconsin Film Festival 2021: Retrospectating
Keep Rolling (2020). DB here: Several of the films I’ve seen this go-round are either revived versions of older films, or recent films indebted to older traditions. Herewith, some thoughts on them....
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Wisconsin Film Festival 2021: Here and there
Calamity: A Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary (2020). Kristin here: Last time I wrote about three Middle Eastern films. Now I’m writing about three films that are all over the map and presented in no...
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French silents from Il Cinema Ritrovato 2021
L’Arlésienne (1922) Kristin here: Like so many of our fellow festival-goers, David and I were not able to visit Bologna for Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual festival of restored films and curated...
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The ten best films of … 1931
M (1931) Kristin here: Our regular readers know that this annual series began as a simple salute to 1917, the year in which the basic norms of the classical Hollywood cinema definitively gelled....
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Thrills and melodrama from the 1910s
Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate (1915). DB here: Two new DVD releases remind us how 1910s filmmakers, unconstrained by realism, used the newish medium of film as a vehicle of charming, sometimes...
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When the image ruled: Julien Duvivier in the silent era
Maman colibri (Mother Hummingbird, 1930). DB here: Rewind the tape of film history. What if cinema had been invented as a perfect audiovisual medium, with images exactly synchronized with sound? What...
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Wisconsin Film Festival 2022: A return to the theaters
Hit the Road (2021). KT here: The Wisconsin Film Festival ended last week. This was the first in-person festival after one cancelled (2020) and one presented through streaming (2021). Given David’s...
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The ten best films of … 1932
Shanghai Express. Kristin here– The year draws to a close, and the internet abounds with lists by professional critics, educated fans, and clueless people proffering opinions on the ten best films of...
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