Jia zhangke biography of rory gilmore

  • Set against the soundtrack of his life, Darius recounts his childhood as the son of a single mother in Charleston, South Carolina.
  • From his times on the Enterprise to his struggles with depression to his starting a family and finding his passion-writing-Wil Wheaton is someone whose life is.
  • The trick to getting the most out of the Berlin Film Festival is to dig deep into its stupendous program spanning 400 films across a multitude of sidebars.

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    VAMPYR and more on the Criterion Channel

    DB here:

    Busy times! I’ve gone back to teaching this semester, and we’re revising Film History: An Introduction. So we’ve been kept from posting as often as we’d like. For the moment just let me signal the newest additions to our Observations series on the Criterion Channel.

    In recent installments, Kristin offers an analysis of how film technique suppresses and reveals story points in Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table. A free extract is here.

    Jeff Smith traces how mise-en-scene techniques, especially settings, yield feminist implications in Gillian Armstrong’s My Brilliant Career. Sample it here.

    This month, as you see above, I’ve offered a consideration of Vampyr as an experimental film. Again, you can see a clip.

    Thanks to the people who’ve told us they enjoy our offerings, now running for nearly three years, longer than Joanie Loves Chachi. Thanks as well as to the group that makes it possible: Peter Becker, Kim Hendrickson, Grant Delin, Erik Gunneson, and the rest of the team in Madison and Manhattan.

    With the Channel sponsoring an ambitious seventeen-film Burt Lancaster series, you might check o

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    Berlin Review: ‘An Elephant Sitting Still’ is an Epic Drama with Shades of Edward Yang and Jia Zhangke
    The trick to getting the most out of the Berlin Film Festival is to dig deep into its stupendous program spanning 400 films across a multitude of sidebars. Premiering in the Forum section which traditionally favors more experimental/radical forms of filmmaking, Chinese writer/director Bo Hu’s feature debut An Elephant Sitting Still is the work of raw, intimidating talent driven by a creative fury that would likely daunt most competition titles. Unmissable for anyone craving the gritty realism and independent spirit of pre-00’s Chinese cinema. Fair warning: this is decidedly not the feel-good movie of the year.

    It all begins on an overcast morning in a nondescript city. People young and old are waking up to a new day, although it doesn’t seem like this is something any of them particularly looks forward to. At first we don’t know their names or how they relate to one another,...

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    Barry Keoghan, Riley Keough in Talks for ‘Butterfly Jam’ From ‘Beanpole’ Director Kantemir Balagov, ‘Emilia Pérez’ Producers (Exclusive)

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