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		<title>Radical Humanism and the Coexistence of Film and Poetry in THE HOUSE IS BLACK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article began as a lecture delivered on April 1, 2001 at the conference “Women and Iranian Cinema,” held at the University of Virginia and organized by Richard Herskowitz and Farzaneh Milani. Two years later it appeared in French translation in Cinéma/06, then in a booklet accompanying Facets Video&#8217;s DVD release of The House is Black [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Confidential [THE CAT&#8217;S MEOW]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (April 26, 2002). &#8212; J.R.


The Cat&#8217;s Meow 
*** (A must-see)
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich
Written by Steven Peros
With Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard, Joanna Lumley, Jennifer Tilly, Victor Slezak, James Laurenson, and Claudia Harrison.

 ORSON WELLES: In the original script [of Citizen Kane] we had a scene based on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kid Stuff: A Glimpse at Movie Wonder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Written in January 2006 for 1000 Films To Change Your Life, an anthology edited by Simon Cropper for Time Out. &#8212; J.R.



Wonder is closer to being a feeling than a thought, and one that we associate both with children and with grown-ups recapturing some of the open-mouthed awe and innocence that they had as children. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dance of PLAYTIME</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My liner notes for the Criterion DVD of the restored, 65 mm version of Jacques Tati&#8217;s Playtime, written in 2006. This also appears on Criterion&#8217;s web site, but, following the cue of an anonymous commentator there, I&#8217;ve corrected a confusing error that mysteriously appeared only in this online version of the essay. (It isn&#8217;t in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backyard Ethics [REAR WINDOW]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader, February 25, 2000. This essay is also reprinted in my collection Essential Cinema. &#8212; J.R.

Rear Window
Rating **** Masterpiece
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Written by John Michael Hayes
With James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, and Irene Winston.

Alfred Hitchcock&#8217;s greatest movie, Rear Window, is as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Choice Between Art and Life (LA BELLE NOISEUSE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the January 31, 1992 Chicago Reader. &#8212; J.R.


LA BELLE NOISEUSE 
**** (Masterpiece)
Directed by Jacques Rivette
Written by Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, and Rivette
With Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Beart, Jane Birkin, David Bursztein, Gilles Arbona, Marianne Denicourt, and the hand of Bernard Dufour.
Considering how rarely the achievements of art match up with the achievements of commerce, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barthes &#038; Film: 12 Suggestions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Sight and Sound, Winter 1982/1983, and reprinted in my collection Placing Movies. It was initially commissioned by Peter Biskind for American Film, who decided not to run it and paid me a kill fee, so I sent it next to Penelope Houston, who accepted it without hesitation. Originally, this piece was designed to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Holiday Glut: A Cautious Consumer Guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (December 21, 2001). &#8212; J.R.

The Affair of the Necklace
Rating * Has redeeming facet
Directed by Charles Shyer
Written by John Sweet
With Hilary Swank, Adrien Brody, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Walken, and Joely Richardson.
Ali
Rating *** A must see
Directed by Michael Mann
Written by Gregory Allen Howard, Stephen Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Eric Roth, and Mann
With Will Smith, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Little More on Truffaut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Yesterday, while reseeing François Truffaut&#8217;s Fahrenheit 451 for the first time in years at the Gene Siskel Film Center, just before doing a Skype interview with Ray Bradbury in California along with Bradbury&#8217;s biographer, Sam Weller, I was struck for the first time how different Truffaut&#8217;s and Bradbury&#8217;s historical groundings were. Bradbury&#8217;s novel, first published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Echoes of Old Hollywood [DESTINY &#038; THE ADOPTED SON]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader, April 2, 1999. &#8212;J.R.
Destiny
Rating *** A must see
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Written by Chahine and Khaled Youssef
With Nour el-Cherif, Laila Eloui, Mahmoud Hemeida, Safia el-Emary, Mohamed Mounir, Khaled el-Nabaoui, Abdallah Mahmoud, and Ahmed Fouad-Selim.
The Adopted Son
Rating *** A must see
Directed by Aktan Abdikalikov
Written by Abdikalikov, Avtandil Adikulov, and Marat Sarulu
With Mirlan Abdikalikov, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truffaut &#038; Me &#038; Bazin (a memoir, a review, and three letters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first and last parts of what follows are taken (and in a few cases adapted) from my book Discovering Orson Welles. &#8212; J.R.

In spite of my five years of living in Paris, my grasp of French has always been mediocre &#8212; a weakness that over the years I’ve come to regard as a sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and the Single Guy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Reader (November 19, 2004). &#8212; J.R.


Alfie
* (Has redeeming facet)
Directed by Charles Shyer
Written by Elaine Pope and Shyer
With Jude Law, Marisa Tomei, Omar Epps, Nia Long, Jane Krakowski, Sienna Miller, and Susan Sarandon
 After the Sunset
** (Worth seeing)
Directed by Brett Ratner
Written by Paul Zbyszewski and Craig Rosenberg
With Pirece Prosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody HArrelson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN on DVD and the Irretrievable Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s delightful to have Kino&#8217;s new &#8220;deluxe&#8221; edition of Albert Lewin&#8217;s Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, one of my all-time favorite examples of Hollywood romanticism, glamor, and lushness (as well as Technicolor), based on the film&#8217;s 2009 restoration, which I saw and Bologna and wrote about a little over a year ago. But while watching this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racism Here and Now (BETRAYED)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the September 2, 1988 Chicago Reader. &#8212; J.R.


BETRAYED
** (Worth seeing)
Directed by Costa-Gavras
Written by Joe Eszterhas
With Debra Winger, Tom Berenger, John Heard, John Mahoney, Ted Levine, Maria Valdez, Betsy Blair, and Richard Libertini.
Although I liked Betrayed enough to make it a Critic&#8217;s Choice last week, a second look has convinced me that it has a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two French Godard Books: Informational Obstacles (and Teasers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Here are two recent valuable acquisitions I&#8217;ve made via French Amazon &#8212; Antoine de Baecques&#8217;s 940-page biography of Jean-Luc Godard, the first one in French (after two in English, by Colin MacCabe and Richard Brody), published by Bernard Grasset, and Godard&#8217;s 107-page &#8220;book&#8221; version of (or companion to) his recent Film Socialisme, published by P.O.L, [...]]]></description>
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