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Letters from the Rest of the World: the book Dreams of a Nation, On Palestinian Cinema
Review essay of the book Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema which analyzes the varied complexities surrounding a 'national' cinema in search of Nationhood.
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Ang Lee’s Cowboys
A review of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain tracing the film's literary roots in Allegory, Romanticism and Epic poetry.
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Manufactured Landscapes
An introspective analysis of what happens when aesthetization meets the politically volatile subject of global capitalism.
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Montreal, 2006: the film year in review
An overview of the best seen (and not seen) on Montreal theatre screens.
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The Whole Film Dances: The Criterion Collection edition of Powell
Professor Paul Salmon reviews the Criterion Collection release of Powell and Pressburger's influential cinematic opera piece, The Tales of Hoffman.
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Lights in the Dusk: Beautiful Beasts at FCN 2006
A report on the 2006 edition of the Festival of New Cinema in Montreal, with a preamble on the etiquette of big theatre experience in the era of the multiplex experience.
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And Always Searching for Beauty: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
A review essay of Dai Sijie's France-China production of Sijie's own novel, set during China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Author Garrett analyzes (among other elements) how, during one of the darkest periods in China's cultural history, great art (much of it destroyed as part of the 're-education' program) survived through the perseverance of the human spirit.
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Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy
An in-depth book review essay of Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy, the fascinating first hand account about some of the more prominent members of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers, written by a professor from the Beijing Academy, Ni Zhen.
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The 4th Life
A review of François Miron's revisionist, Sapphic film noir, which imagines a world where women act like Humphrey Bogart and men are nervous, jittery and timid.
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The White Countess: Merchant and Ivory’s Final Film
A review of the final Merchant-Ivory film, The White Countess, “a high-brow romance drama without romantic love.”
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James Marsh’s The King
A review of British documentarian James Marsh's excellent feature film debut The King, a haunting piece of Southern Gothic which has earned comparison to Terrence Malick, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg (A History of Violence.
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Tales of Resilience: the Iranian Journey and The Ladies Room
A somewhat irreverent, insightful analysis of two recent female-centered Iranian documentaries, The Ladies Room and Iranian Journey.
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Women United: Sentenced to Marriage and Highway Courtesans
An analysis of two recent documentaries exposing the social injustices of archaic law and custom in Israel and Central India: Sentenced to Marriage and Highway Courtesans.
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Notes on Why We Make Movies and Dark Designs and Visual Culture
A review essay of two books celebrating the varied contributions of African-American 'imagemakers' in its broadest sense (filmmakers, actors, writers, artists).
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The Great Artist, the Little Fellow: Reading Charlie Chaplin and James Agee
A review essay on three recent books, two focusing on Charlie Chaplin and one on the American critic/playright James Agee.
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