In a major upset, the Italian docudrama Caesar Must Die from directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani has won the Golden Bear for best film at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
And yesterday, Pedro Almodóvar didn't have much luck at the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Goya Awards.
David Denby takes some notes on a lost style of acting.
Take these stats into account when entering your office's Oscar pool.
After permitting four days of public viewing of the slowly decomposing corpses of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, his son Muatassim, and his former defense minister Abu Bakr Younes in a Misurata meat locker, the military council in this city said on Tuesday that the three were buried early in the day at a secret location.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for their advances in immunology, but the status of the prize was called into question because one recipient, Ralph Steinman, had died three days earlier.
The Emmys were last night and, given the plethora of unexpected, mostly pleasant, surprises, I promise to never predict the winners again. For coverage of the event, see Salon, The Vulture, and EW. And for a full list of winners, click here.
Barack Obama vows veto if deficit plan has no tax increases.
Sad news this morning from the San Francisco Film Society. Graham Leggat, who stepped down as SFFS executive director just last month, died yesterday after an 18-month battle with cancer.
Christopher Hitchens asks us not to lose sight of the crimes of Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Matt Zoller Seitz on the brilliance of the best show on television, Louie.
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Betty Ford, the outspoken and much-admired wife of President Gerald R. Ford who overcame alcoholism and an addiction to pills and helped found one of the best-known rehabilitation centers in the nation, died Friday in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 93.
Also on Friday: For the last time, the engines of a space shuttle roared, the ground rumbled, and the shuttle Atlantis rose off the launching pad and disappeared into the clouds.
Over the weekend, 29-year-old James Hackemer, an Iraq war veteran, died after falling from the Ride of Steel roller coaster at Darien Lake Theme Park in Syracuse, New York.
For MUBI, our own Kurt Shulenberger lays out his crisis of faith, admitting to loving video games but not necessarily liking the fact that he does.
David Bordwell responds to the prospect opened up by Manohla Dargis.
Michelle Bachmann compares gay marriage to Pearl Harbor.
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From Cannes, the critics are digging Woody Allen's latest. We'll see, later today, if they're right.
There are reports that Sarah Palin may have done some good things as governor.
For Film Comment, David Bordwell wonders why cinephiles and academics can't just get along.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the Rooftop Films summer series launches this Friday.
Via MUBI, a blast from the critical past: Erich von Stroheim's review of Citizen Kane.
Emmanuel Lubezki discusses how film is an important aspect of Terrence Malick's cinema.
A video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz on Terrence Malick's Badlands:
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The Seattle International Film Festival announces its lineup. Ditto the Nantucket Film Festival. And also BAMcinemaFest.
Kevin Lee latest video essay uses David Bordwell's notes on Oxhide II, originally published on his blog Observations on Film Art, as a script to examine the film in depth:
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The Onionreveals how Mitt Romney is haunted by past of trying to help uninsured sick people.
An excellent piece by David Bordwell on Sidney Lumet, his passing, his work, his outpacing of his contemporaries, and his complicated relationship with the critical intelligentsia.
Peter Bogdanovich shares his shares his thoughts on D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation.
Michael J. Anderson scrutinizes the manners, manipulation, and modernism in Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives.
Matt Zoller Seitz on Cinema Verite, HBO's new take on the landmark PBS documentary series An American Family.
In case you were wondering what Chunk is up to today:
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Links for the Day: Midnight in Paris Early Raves, Emmanuel Lubezki Interview, Cinephiles vs. Academics, & More
by Ed Gonzalez on May 11th, 2011 at 11:40 am in Links for the Day
From Cannes, the critics are digging Woody Allen's latest. We'll see, later today, if they're right.
There are reports that Sarah Palin may have done some good things as governor.
For Film Comment, David Bordwell wonders why cinephiles and academics can't just get along.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the Rooftop Films summer series launches this Friday.
Via MUBI, a blast from the critical past: Erich von Stroheim's review of Citizen Kane.
Emmanuel Lubezki discusses how film is an important aspect of Terrence Malick's cinema.
A video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz on Terrence Malick's Badlands:
Links for the Day: A collection of links to items that we hope will spark discussion. We encourage our readers to submit candidates for consideration to ed@slantmagazine.com and to converse in the comments section.
Tags: Badlands, Citizen Kane, David Bordwell, Emmanuel Lubezki, Erich von Stroheim, Film Comment, Matt Zoller Seitz, Midnight in Paris, Mubi, Rooftop Films, Sarah Palin, Terrence Malick, The Atlantic, Woody Allen
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