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8 months

Important news! I have a new URL address for my website: – Webmaster Bill Mousoulis has moved heaven & earth to get this up and running in just a few days. I am very grateful to him! Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

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Adrian Martin

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7 months

At the age of 64, I seem to have risen a little in the world of popular film criticism, since I have just scored my second @SightSoundmag cover story in 6 months!! I’ve got 3,500 words on Ryusuke Hamaguchi in the new issue, it was great fun to write.

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4 years

I finally have it in paperback! There's 34 years of my writing-life highlighted in these mere 484 pages !!

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2 years

Old Billy Faulkner had the right answer ...

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1 year

“I’m from a generation that had no problem loving Robert Bresson as much as Dario Argento. As long as there’s real filmmaking involved, it’s all the same.” – Bertrand Bonello (10 years younger than me, but I’ll happily claim him for ‘my’ generation!)

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2 years

Raúl Ruiz and me, Rotterdam Film Festival, 2004. Photo by Irish filmmaker Fergus Daly.

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1 year

This has been up online for a week, but I don’t think anybody’s noticed it yet: my obituary of William Friedkin for SIGHT AND SOUND.

William Friedkin obituary: maverick Hollywood director of The French Connection and The Exorcist

Friedkin, who has died aged 87, had two huge early successes during the New Hollywood era, but many of his later films reveal a talent whose ability to shock and surprise remained undimmed.

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1 year

R.I.P. the prodigiously talented William Friedkin, who died today at 87. I remember seeing the incredible BUG in 2006 and thinking: the artist who, at 71, can make this is staying absolutely true to himself.

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3 years

I had no idea that a Persian translation of my ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA book has (apparently) come into existence. I would love to receive a copy of it!

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5 years

It's been 2-and-a-half-years since Criterion last called on my services as a writer. However ... I'm back!! It's Day 3 of the Roll-Out, and here's my essay to accompany Criterion Channel's Luis Buñuel retrospective running through to June 2020.

Luis Buñuel: Eternal Surrealist

With a mixture of intuition, craft, and an endless curiosity about how cinema can be used to shock and provoke, the Spanish master left us with a rich body of work that stands as a testament to the...

www.criterion.com

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5 years

The first physical copies have appeared Down Under !!

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4 years

Once you start screenshooting Cassavetes' FACES, it's impossible to stop ... an incredible shot/counter-shot:

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1 year

A wise guy:

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7 years

I did the epic (over 3 hour) audio commentary on this forthcoming BFI Blu-ray release !!

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1 year

I love it when friends in other countries casually post photos like this:

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2 years

I’m in this ...

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5 years

Current mood:

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6 years

IT EXISTS! From Amsterdam University Press, @FilmCultureAUP series:

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3 years

My (first) review of the great ANNETTE!

Film Review: 'Annette' is an exhilarating masterpiece | ScreenHub Australia - Film & Television...

Inventive and audacious, Leos Carax's musical 'Annette' is a brilliant fractured fairytale, says Adrian Martin.

www.screenhub.com.au

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10 months

Already, hands down, the Greatest Film of 2024:

Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night

Photographer who noticed his items were mysteriously moving around discovered an industrious rodent was organising his workbench

www.theguardian.com

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7 years

My new book MYSTERIES OF CINEMA coming February 2018!!

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6 years

Werner Schroeter here speaks for all us creative types:

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2 years

Me at 63 – 44 of those years as a published film critic !! Photo-portrait by my beloved Cristina.

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3 years

Cinephiles of the world must come to the rescue of Raúl Ruiz's legendary SOCIALIST REALISM (1973) by Valeria Sarmiento & the Poetastros team. Repeatedly denied funding in Chile, its fate is in our hands! Read all about it here:

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1 year

My long essay on Godard/Gorin’s TOUT VA BIEN, published in German translation in Vinzenz Hediger & Rembert Hüser (eds), Jean Luc Godard: Film denken nach der Geschichte des Kinos (Brill/Fink, 2023), is now exclusively available in English on my website.

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1 year

I’m rather fond of this pic of the Garrel Clan from Berlin Film Festival earlier this year:

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10 months

Is it noted often enough that Alexander Kluge is now 91 and still going strong? He’s doing a Masterclass and presenting new work at Rotterdam in January 2024. Inspiring!

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6 months

Sad news today of the passing, at age 90, of the wonderful film critic, writer, teacher, activist, feminist, and Australian friend Freda Freiberg. She was a unique fixture of film culture. Soon she will appear, once more, on the BFI release of Naruse’s FLOATING CLOUDS.

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4 years

Without the slightest note of explanation forthcoming, I present to you this cryptic fragment from the Contents page of my new book, nearing completion!

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4 years

Days of Being VHS

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7 years

It's official! My new book MYSTERIES OF CINEMA will exist late-May 2018 ...

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2 years

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT from Cristina Álvarez López & me: a new project, THE AUDIOVISUAL ESSAY COLLECTION, assembles our best works since 2012, often in reworked, technically upgraded versions. POETICS OF MONTAGE is Vol. 1. To stream or buy. Details here:

Watch The Audiovisual Essay Collection—Vol. 1: Poetics of Montage...

This collection aims to bring together the audiovisual essays that Adrian Martin and I have been making for more than ten years. All works have been revised for…

vimeo.com

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5 years

"How to Write Good":

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7 years

Coming, at last, on the 1st of July 2017! Film review website covering 40 years of my writing - plus a Patreon appeal to keep it updated:

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2 years

Very sad news of the death of the brilliant French scholar-researcher-translator Samuel Bréan ( @YosemiteBailey on Twitter – his last tweet was 4 days ago), from a heart attack. A lovely, generous & incredibly smart person. R.I.P.

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3 years

R.I.P. Jean-Paul Belmondo, age 88. Cristina @laughmotel & I enjoyed editing his immortal gestures into our 2013 audiovisual tribute to Jean-Pierre Melville:

The Melville Variations

Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin's new video essay looks at 13 recurring elements in the work of Jean-Pierre Melville.

mubi.com

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6 years

If all you ROBERT PATTINSON and CLAIRE DENIS fans out there actually retweet/share my rave review of HIGH LIFE, then @ScreenHub may actually pay me a little more as a bonus in these neoliberal digital times!! Seriously:

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2 years

@jg_mephisto Maya Deren, Abigail Child, Raymonde Carasco ... my new book FILMMAKERS THINKING is entirely about this! Pasolini, Eugène Green, Johan van der Keuken, Hartmut Bitomsky ...

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2 years

I love how in Spanish one ‘dreams with’ rather ‘dreams about’ something. Psychic collaboration rather than distance !

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8 months

I can personally recommend this wonderful – and superbly researched, deeply revealing – book by John @drjonty Bleasdale :

The Magic Hours - The University Press of Kentucky

Terrence Malick is the most enigmatic film director currently working. Since the early seventies, his work has won top prizes at film festivals worldwide and...

www.kentuckypress.com

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1 year

And @laughmotel thinks I have problems putting order into my study !! (This is a photo of just one corner of Jean Baudrillard’s office.)

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6 years

Berln 1930: an uncanny premonition of social media !!

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2 years

Happy news for me in the 1st week of 2023: a USA DVD company that hasn’t called on my services for years just commissioned a new audio commentary from me. Can’t reveal the title yet, but it’s a good one.

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4 years

From one of the year's best films!

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5 years

J-L Nancy on Giorgio Agamben: "Almost thirty years ago doctors decided that I needed a heart transplant. Giorgio was one of the very few who advised me not to listen to them. If I had followed his advice I would have probably died soon enough. It is possible to make a mistake."

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2 years

“The last film that I saw was THE GODFATHER. It’s a dirty movie, but there’s a certain part of me that likes dirt.” – Jean-Luc Godard, 1972

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2 years

My essay on Tarantino, "Just Another Bullet in the Head" – originally written in 1994 and then reworked in 2010 – has just appeared in a Spanish translation (by Bruno Glas) in Argentina's online magazine TAIPEI. Enjoy!

Quentin Tarantino: apenas otra bala en la cabeza (Adrian Martin, 1994/2010) - TAIPEI

Tarantino, sin dudas consciente de los muchos hilos en la genealogía que he esbozado, juega sus propios juegos astutos con la representación violenta. Al igual que Godard o Fassbinder, aborda los...

taipeirevista.com

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5 years

THIS is how you put eight people into one amazing shot ...

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5 years

From the Éric Rohmer biography, a typical letter he received from a young, aspiring actress (Gwenaëlle Simon), faithfully preserved in his files: "I love your films, I love you through your films, and I'd love you to love me, too. That's all".

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3 years

@elmi_farhangi – It would be great for you to send me a copy of the book I wrote !!! Please contact me through private message.

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8 months

A fine team cooking up one of my all-time favourite films ...

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3 years

There is currently a retrospective happening in France devoted to the superb films of Dan Sallitt. My essay commissioned for this event is (in French!) on pages 12 to 14 of the booklet, downloadable in PDF here:

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4 years

DVDBEAVER has spoken! Re: the new Criterion release of CÉLINE AND JULIE GO BOATING - "Adrian Martin's audio commentary is one of the best ... ever. I think if I made a list of my top 10 favorite commentaries - Adrian Martin would be on more than half."

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7 years

A great moment of my film-critic career, a headline from my 3-week stint at BUSINESS DAILY (!!) in 1987:

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4 years

True story: I have literally spent decades looking for the origin, in absolutely anybody's written work, of a particular, striking sentence. Today I discovered, while unearthing a text of mine from the 1980s, that I wrote this sentence myself !!! Wonders never cease ...

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3 years

Announcing & launching a big new project from Cristina @laughmotel Álvarez & me. MULTIMEDIA LECTURES ON FILM, to rent or buy via Vimeo On Demand. Literally home made! The first is on Nick Ray's THEY LIVE BY NIGHT. Our trailer is here, pls spread the word!

Watch Multimedia Lectures On Film (Ep. 1): They Live By Night...

Written and presented by Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin. Our multimedia lectures on film are in-depth, 50 minute analyses of major films…

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3 years

My review of DRIVE MY CAR is now up at SCREENHUB:

Drive My Car review: it's streets ahead | ScreenHub Australia - Film & Television Jobs, News,...

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar-nominated film is an ingenious adaptation of three unconnected short stories by Haruki Murakami.

www.screenhub.com.au

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5 months

Steve McQueen is really very Bressonian in LE MANS (1971 - his passion project, started mid ‘60s): he almost never moves a muscle in his face for the entire movie.

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7 years

For this NEW audiovisual essay up at MUBI NOTEBOOK today (our 27th there!), Cristina @LaughMotel Álvarez López & I took a passage on Godard's CONTEMPT from my MISE EN SCENE book, then reworked and expanded it to this 18 minutes worth:

Video Essay. Coming Apart: Jean-Luc Godard’s "Contempt"

How an early scene in "Contempt" encapsulates the feeling that the film sits nervously astride two eras: the classical and the modernist.

mubi.com

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1 year

An outline of the catalogue publication (print only, not online) accompanying the amazing Raúl Ruiz retrospective at the upcoming Viennale!

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3 years

Happy Summer Film School days in Antwerp with Cristina and Rita & Roberta Azevedo Gomes!

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5 years

I have revamped the PATREON campaign for my FILM CRITIC website: rewards (of rare texts on cult cinema & musicals) are now available to people who support me from $5 and from $10 per month. Please check it out and consider!

Get more from Adrian Martin on Patreon

creating Website of Writings on Film

www.patreon.com

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10 months

Me on a screen today at the Shanghai Biennale, introducing Peleshian’s OUR CENTURY!

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2 years

“If in poetry it can be said that language goes on holiday, in cinema it can be said that the real world goes on holiday.” – Raúl Ruiz, 2003

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6 years

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4 years

People sometimes say to me: "You don't write much anymore". They (and you) should take a good look at this ongoing list on my website FILM CRITIC: many of these pieces are new, substantial and completely exclusive to the site!

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6 years

January 2019 is special for me: exactly 40 years ago I had my first published piece! So a good time to give a renewed push to encourage people to support via Patreon my website: encapsulating those 40 years and adding new reviews every fortnight!

Get more from Adrian Martin on Patreon

creating Website of Writings on Film

www.patreon.com

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4 years

Who's smiling now? The move into our new pad is finally starting to really happen, after all the interruptions that date back to the first lockdown in March ...

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2 years

If I could hate Armond White more than I already do for his disgraceful comments on Chantal Akerman, I would.

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4 years

I believe this counts as a "rave review"!

Adrian Martin: A film critic confronts complacency

The former Age film critic ranges far and wide in his commentary.

www.smh.com.au

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5 years

Today 8 years ago I got together with Cristina @LaughMotel . O Happy Day!! She wrote in our 2012 "Cine-Letters": “If I had to honestly sum up my days in this city, I would appropriate the definition used to describe people kissing in lifts: muy romántico y muy cinematográfico”.

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3 years

The perils of auto-translating a page in Persian on my MYSTERIES OF CINEMA book: "Internationally renowned Australian critic Adrien [sic] Martin invites his readers on a tumultuous journey into aesthetics, syphilis, genre, art criticism, cultural policy and philosophy" !!

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3 years

My recent DVD/Blu-ray audio commentaries on DAYS OF HEAVEN (Via Vision) and JOHNNY GUITAR (Eureka/Masters of Cinema) are now out in the world. When only the best will do !!!

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3 years

Still waiting for a response from my new (and up to now unknown to me) 'publisher' !!! ...

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5 years

The Czech translation of my MISE EN SCÈNE AND FILM STYLE now exists!

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7 years

Remember you can pledge anything from $1 upwards to PATREON campaign of my new website FILM CRITIC: ADRIAN MARTIN !

Get more from Adrian Martin on Patreon

creating Website of Writings on Film

www.patreon.com

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6 years

I have two pieces on SCREENHUB this week. The first is my review of Claire Denis' mindbending HIGH LIFE!

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5 months

In a rush to complete a review on deadline, I found myself writing this sentence about camera work: “The angles are angular”. I believe I deserve the Pulitzer Prize for Film Criticism for that !! It’s only taken me 45 years of hard work to arrive at such insight.

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10 years

The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship (Apichatpong & Béla Tarr at latter's Film Factory): http://t.co/BZpnbUHxKR

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2 years

1st day of the year: @DVDBeaver lists me among its 2022 “film commentarists worth listening to” and plaintively inquires: “Why isn’t he doing 50 commentaries a year?” My question exactly !!

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5 years

Currently cataloguing my old notebooks. At age 17 in 1977, I kept this "Film Diary" ("Volume I", no less) where I worked on the following mini-essays-in-progress ...

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In 2001, at the Tate Modern conference FOR EVER GODARD in London, I delivered a talk on "Godard's Lyricism". Never before published in this original form, I have now made it available on my website. Support My Website! @NotebookMUBI @CriterionDaily

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7 years

R.I.P the great Jerry Lewis. I wrote this piece in the late 1990s when he performed in Australia:

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4 years

Someone once said on Twitter they would buy any book endorsed by the author's Teddy Bear, so I'm just trying to score another sure sale here:

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4 years

The little-known alternative edit OUT 1: CROISSANT.

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6 months

I am at this moment reading an essay in which a well-known author writes about MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ and never once spells Moskowitz correctly. And GLORIA becomes, at one point, GLORY!!!

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2 years

In the past 7 months, I’ve received only one commission to do a DVD/Blu-ray audio commentary. Until today! 2 new assignments (to be announced). Like Fast Eddie Felson cries at the end of THE COLOR OF MONEY (spoiler alert): “I’m back!”

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7 years

This amazing-looking book appears in Chile in October:

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3 years

It looks like a wedding or a baptism but really it's The Fury ...

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1 year

Cristina @laughmotel & I have produced a 3rd volume of our collected audiovisual essays. It is devoted to STUDIES IN SOUND, MUSIC AND DANCE, with new, reworked & improved versions 2015-23. All info & details here: (

The Audiovisual Essay Collection (VoD)

This collection aims to bring together the audiovisual essays that Adrian Martin and I have been making for more than ten years. All works have been revised for inclusion in this Collection, and ma…

laughmotel.wordpress.com

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4 years

Today is the 81st birthday of one of my favourite filmmakers: Marco Bellocchio. He currently has 3 new works (one a TV series) happening! Cristina @LaughMotel & I have made several responses to his oeuvre starting with this audiovisual essay INTO THE VOID:

The Thinking Machine 40: Into the Void

“Rigidity is fatal”, announced the great Italian director Marco Bellocchio in 2006. Rigidity can be internal – a frozen mind, a depressive soul,…

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A series of 3 essays by me on Abbas Kiarostami have been translated by Miguel Forlin and published in Brazil's ESTADO DA ARTE. Here is the first in the series:

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6 years

Now up at MUBI @NotebookMUBI , my appreciation of the richly paradoxical films of FJ Ossang:

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10 years

My new book now exists !! Please buy it and make me a self-sufficient freelance film critic in 2015 - and Beyond !! http://t.co/RgFE6tJ3Ti

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2 years

It’s not every day that one gets this social media alert: “Sherilyn Fenn likes a photo you are tagged in”. Degrees of separation ...

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4 years

Pleased to announce I'll be doing some forthcoming DVD/Blu-ray audio commentaries for ViaVision (titles to come later). The first time in 11 years that a company in my birth-country of Australia has commissioned me! At last !!

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