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Au Hasard Balthazar

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Life in the Dark

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Life in the Dark

I opened the new film issue of Image today, which was edited by cinephile Gareth Higgins and Rectify writer/director Scott Teems, and I was immediately caught up in a complicated conflict regarding one of my favorite filmmakers: Robert Bresson. In the essay called "Necessary Images," Teems writes,

On Books & Writing

David Foster Wallace; The Curator; Robert Bresson

REMEMBERING WALLACE (OR, PERHAPS, DISCOVERING HIM) Lots and lots of David Foster Wallace links! Read, be amazed, and be even more distraught over the loss of an imaginative writer. And McSweeney's is paying tribute as well. * CURATOR TWO: CURATORER There's a new batch of articles at

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Top Five Spiritually Significant Films

What would you choose as the Top Five Spiritually Significant Films you've ever seen? The Arts and Faith board posted their top 100 recently. (I didn't vote in this process because I became increasingly baffled as to what "Spiritually Significant" meant to this particular

Specials: Linford Detweiler! Radiohead! Balthazar!

Today's specials: * "We often end up writing the music that we need to hear at the time." My latest interview with Over the Rhine's Linford Detweiler is up! * Radiohead's OK Computer is the best album of the last 20 years, says Spin

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Get ready for the Criterion DVD of "Au Hasard Balthazar"

Robert Bresson's haunting, soulful masterpiece is coming... Have you advance-ordered your copy? I have. This was the best film I saw on the big screen last year, and I've thought about it more than any other film since. If you don't know about this

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Au Hasard Balthazar

My favorite moviegoing experience of last year was Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar. Now, Darren Hughes at Long Pauses has given me the best news I've heard all week... The Criterion Collection is doing it up right. And if this is somebody's idea of