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Under His Umbrella

The Criterion Collection is releasing a new high-definition digital restoration of Ishiro Honda‘s GODZILLA on Blu-Ray Disc today.

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Four Weeks in Our Town

A month-long retrospective of Vincente Minnelli’s films kicked off this weekend at BAM.

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Second Time Around

At the close of the day Saturday, the aptly named Horror Movie a Day blog will be hosting a 35 mm screening of the underrated 1983 sequel to arguably overrated 1962 Hitchcock thriller PSYCHO. EMPIRE’s Kim Newman labeled PSYCHO II … Continue reading

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Forward, Soviet!

This magnificent show is actually leaving soon; it closes this Friday. REVOLUTIONARY FILM POSTERS: Aesthetic Experiments of Russian Constructivism, 1920-33 May 6 – July 29, 2011, at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery.

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Cool World

Rainer Werner Fassbinder‘s WORLD ON A WIRE opens today in limited release (at the IFC Center here in New York City). For years now, it’s only been available in a murky, smudged print with home-made subtitles via the internet’s underground … Continue reading

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All Spruced Up

For the next few days, the Film Society at Lincoln Center is hosting the UCLA Film & Television Archive‘s biennial Festival of Preservation. This year’s installment features “breathtaking new restorations of forgotten classics by Robert Altman, Cecil B. DeMille and … Continue reading

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Dog Days Watchdog

VIDEO WATCHDOG issue #163 July / August 2011 Includes two big articles on the immortal Eddie Constantine.

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Happy Birthday, NYAFF!

Somebody turns 10 tomorrow.

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Screening: “A Thief Catcher” [Lehrman/1914]

One of the earliest screen appearances by Charlie Chaplin was discovered recently in a Michigan estate sale by film historian Paul Gierucki. This long-lost Keystone Kops short, “A Thief Catcher,” is showing at 8 PM tonight at Arlington’s Slapsticon Festival. … Continue reading

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Movie of the Week: BAND OF OUTSIDERS

“…the stare is much more interesting for what it means in movie technique. When this pensive, larger-than-life profile, back of the head, or full face, fills the screen with a kind of distilled purity, the image becomes purified abstract composition, … Continue reading

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