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The Hand That Erases: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998)

The UK home video label Radiance Films just released a loaded Blu-ray box set of Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma (available in the US from vendors like Orbit - if you have an all region player). On this flimsy pretext I decided to...

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New York Film Festival: Revivals

The Revivals section of this year’s New York Film Festival is a showcase for the revelatory restoration work of India’s Film Heritage Foundation, who present both Report to Mother (Amma Ariyan, 1986) and In Which Annie GIves It Those Ones (...

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New York Film Festival: Currents

The 64th New York Film Festival opens today with a slate of 75 features and 44 shorts, an overwhelming number for the one-man Old New crew. Our strategy is to focus on the sidebar sections Currents (for more experimental work) and Revivals...

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Keeping Score: Semi-Tough (1977)

The NFL regular season kicked off this week with the defending champion Seattle Seahawks knocking off the scandal-plagued New England Patriots, with the help of some boneheaded interceptions tossed by New England’s QB Drake Maye. Barrel-sha...

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Appassionata: I’ve Always Loved You (1946)

In my last missive, I reviewed Imtiaz Ali’s heart-exploding love story Main Vaapas Aaunga (2026), whose structure and romantic intensity I compared with Frank Borzage’s I’ve Always Loved You (1946). That inspired me to revisit my 2015 essay...

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