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A collection of 9 posts

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For the Love of Movies That Never Played at the Mall...

In my experience of discussing movies online, few people have challenged me to dig deeper and look closer at movies than Ken Morefield. That's why I'm enthusiastic about having his as a "guest reviewer" so often at Looking Closer. So I am delighted to

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More 2007 Lists Worth Noting

My Netflix queue just went into cardiac arrest as I read about all kinds of new movies on the 2007-Best lists from Doug Cummings and Robert Koehler. What would I do without tour guides like them? Nate Bell separates wheat from chaff. Brandon Fibbs is impressed with many, but only

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Harry Potter; Mother Teresa; Wilson on Atheism Books; Cummings on Satyajit Ray

I'm a week late to this blog entry, but wow... Andy Whitman writes about music better than just about anybody I know. And now he's posted a home-run entry about Harry Potter. * Yesterday I posted news about the new book on Mother Teresa. Here's

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A Brief Lesson in Looking Closer: From the Dardennes Brothers and Doug Cummings

The Dardennes brothers have made some of my favorite films of the past decade -- L'Enfant, The Son, and Rosetta -- and now they have a new three-minute short. Thanks so much to Doug Cummings for the link. And then for thinking it through with us. Folks, watch

Looking Elsewhere

Specials: Doug Cummings on "Silence"; Also: "Rescue Dawn"; and Peter Sellers

Here's Doug Cummings' new Masters of Cinema essay on Masahiro Shinoda's film Silence, which is based on Shusaku Endo's extraordinary novel. As you probably know, Martin Scorsese's next film is his own adaptation of the same source material. I urge you

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Doug Cummings on "Sunshine"

Doug Cummings turned in his last batch of reviews from the Los Angeles Film Festival today, and they include his response to Danny Boyle's sci-fi thriller Sunshine. I've heard from one of you that Danny Boyle's Sunshine is the best film you've

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Doug and the Dardennes

I imagine that for Doug Cummings meeting the Dardennes was as thrilling as it would have been for me to interview Krzysztof Kieslowksi. The interview that resulted is in the new issue of Paste, which I believe is read by more and more cinephiles all the time. So hurry out

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Doug Cummings on "Howl's Moving Castle"

from filmjourney... I find the mystery in Miyazaki's films to be one of their greatest pleasures, expanding their worlds with each viewer's imagination. When I was a kid, I loved to scratch my head. Not that Miyazaki crafts puzzling films; his cinema is highly accessible and

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Doug Cummings on Jean Renoir's "The River"

Peter Greenaway once said that cinema as an "art form" has yet to be established. He meant that, so far, movies aren't much more than illustrated narratives: books with moving pictures to bring the manuscripts to life. That comment has stuck with me, as I'