Classified assessments of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison obtained by The New York Times give the fullest public picture to date of the prisoners held there.
Elvis Mitchell has been terminated as Movieline's chief film critic.
On Sunday, we lost French star Marie-France Pisier (a few links from our friends at MUBI) and Glory and Tombstone screenwriter Kevin Jarre (click here from the Los Angeles Times obit).
Larry Kramer wants to know why this generation of gay men is so apathetic while he's still so angry.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, a Republican douche wants foster children to know their place.
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An excerpt from J. Hoberman's upcoming An Army of Phantoms.
Matt Zoller Seitz on the songs that belong to the movies.
British filmmaker Charles Jarrott, who directed Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Anthony Quayle, and Vanessa Redgrave to Oscar nominations, died on Saturday. He was 83.
For The Rumpus.net, Whit Coppedge recalls a scrambled object of desire.
For The Guardian, Hadley Freeman on the dark comedy of Werner Herzog.
Nasa scientist claims evidence of extraterrestrial life.
For MUBI, Daniele Rugo interviews Juliane Lorenz, director of the Fassbinder Foundation.
Below, 36 Hichcock death scenes all at once:
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Fitz Fullerton, a Brooklyn livery-cab driver, describes what police did to him after he was stabbed by Maksim Gelman, the 23-year-old Ukranian immigrant who murdered four people during a 28-hour killing spree that ended on the No. 3 train near Times Square on Sunday.
According to Dennis Lim, writing for Artforum, this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam had an overriding theme: urban sprawl.
Alan Sepinwall changed the nature of television criticism. But, Salon's Josh Levin's ponders: Can you be both a rabid fan and a thoughtful reviewer?
Also in Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz wonders if Glee can be saved.
Make MUBI your guide to what's going on in Berlinale, now in progress.
Coming this May from the Criterion Collection: Fat Girl (Blu-ray), Smiles of a Summer Night (Blu-ray), Something Wild (DVD/Blu-ray), Diabolique (DVD/Blu-ray), Pale Flower (DVD/Blu-ray), The Great Dictator (DVD/Blu-ray), and Solaris (DVD/Blu-ray). Related, Criterion has beefed up their Hulu page with some incredible content.
Roger Angell, for The New Yorker, remembers what it was like to see films in 1939, Hollywood's greatest year.
Now in progress: the For the Love of Film (Noir): The Film Preservation Blogathon. This fundraising blogathon is hosted by Ferdy on Films and the Self-Styled Siren to benefit the Film Noir Foundation. To donate, click here.
On Oscar Sunday, The New York Times will innagurate a monthly "Ask the Critics" column, and every single one is sure to piss off Whoopi Goldberg.
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Is there another Palm d'Or in Emir Kusturica's future?
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The nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards have been announced.
Yesterday, a suicide bomber attacked Moscow's busiest airport, killing dozens of people and injecting new pain into a country already split along ethnic lines.
Dan Callahan has a thing for Joan Bennett's outstretched legs.
Nice resource: MUBI is building an index to coverage of the Sundance 2011 coverage.
Matt Zoller Seitz wonders if David E. Kelley has finally run out of stream.
Wanna bet there will be at least one ad like this one to play during this year's Super Bowl?
Below, an ode to cinema's greatest slaps:
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Two film polls of note: The L Magazine (a consensus Top 25) and The Daily Notebook at Mubi (in which each contributor picks a new and old title for a prospective double feature). Both polls include several write-ups by House contributors.
Cary Grant's first movie, This Is the Night, screens this evening on TCM. Set your DVRs.
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For Filmmaker magazine, House contributor Lauren Wissot interviews director Zachary Oberzan.
Anthology Film Archives's "Abel Ferrara in the 21st Century" series kicks off on the 7th, with screenings of Ferrara's Go Go Tales, Mary, Mulberry St, Chelsea on the Rocks, and Napoli Napoli Napoli. The Miami International Film Festival has just paid tribute to the guttersniping auteur with a clip montage.
A look back at five decades of Consumer Electronics Show hits and epic flops.
Richard Brody on Sam Fuller's awesome Pickup on South Street:
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Over at Artforum, Nicolas Rapold gets his Weimar on.
Terrence Malick's Tree of Life gets more awesome by the day.
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Sight & Sound has polled a bunch of critics and come up with its Best of 2010. The top dog—and future Oscar-winner (you wait and see)—is David Fincher's The Social Network. The full list is available at MUBI.
David Bordwell comparesVariety with The Hollywood Reporter.
Salon is open to a merger. So are we…cough, cough.
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I do not own a PlayStation 3, but if I did—and lived in a country with universal health care—I would probably download MUBI's new application. It's free apparently.
The Huffington Postlooks at the funniest unintentionally sexual album covers ever.
We're still some six months away from the release of Tree of Life and news is beginning to come out about Terrence Malick's next project.
John Carpenter is set to direct an adaptation of Darkchylde, producing alongside the comic book's creator, Randy Queen.
This was the only time I laughed last night:
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And while Slant's review of the film didn't make Movieline's Top 9 (perhaps because S.T. Vanairsdale has an aversion to Top 10s?), it's worth noting for bringing our attention to Lindy West's amazing takedown of the film.
A repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell passed the House this week. Watch Republicans use phrases like "tickle the fancy" and "shoving this down your throat" in protest:
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Reports that Law & Order is getting the axe seem to be upsetting a lot of people. Because apparently 20 seasons and three spin-offs (and a new Los Angeles edition on the way) isn't enough. Here's the pilot for a spin-off that sadly didn't get picked up:
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