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Videodrone: ‘French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923-1928′

Sean Axmaker — Sat, 18 May 2013 22:44:02 +0000

French Masterworks: Russian Émigrés in Paris 1923-1928 (Flicker Alley) presents of the stateside DVD debut of five silent classics from Film Albatros, a French studio founded by Russian artists: The Burning Crucible, Kean, The Late Mathias Pascal, Gribiche, and The New Gentlemen. Three of the films star Ivan Mosjoukine, the great Russian actor who fled [...]

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The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of May 17

Bruce Reid — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:05:01 +0000

R. Emmet Sweeney’s profile of William Witney goes beyond just signing on to Tarantino’s endorsement. He paints the picture of a young man lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time—when your coworkers could include Yakima Canutt, and a friendly visit to Busby Berkeley’s set could show you a whole new [...]

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SIFFing: Parallax View’s SIFF 2013 Guide

Editor — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:00:10 +0000

The 39th Annual Seattle International Film Festival opens on Thursday, May 16, with a screening of Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, and complete its 25-day run on Sunday, June 9 with Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring as the Closing Night Film. Here is Parallax View’s coverage and guide to SIFF resources for all 25 days. [...]

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‘In the House’: Bad Teacher, Naughty Pupil

Robert Horton — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:42:10 +0000

François Ozon’s parents were schoolteachers. That could account for the slyly mixed feelings he shows toward the protagonist of his new film. Meet Germain, a high-school teacher whose commitment to his profession is tested by his boredom, his frustrated dreams of being a writer, and the seductive series of papers turned in by a precocious [...]

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‘Graceland’: Crime and Parenthood in the Philippines

Robert Horton — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:39:14 +0000

The device at the heart of Graceland is unsavory but gripping: A flunky for a crooked politician is driving his daughter and his boss’ daughter home from school when kidnappers pounce. The baddies immediately kill one of the girls and drive away with the other, a huge ransom demand trailing in their wake. The twist? [...]

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SIFF: ‘Finding Hillywood’

Sean Axmaker — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:36:27 +0000

Leah Warshawski didn’t set out for a movie career. “I got into it because I worked on a boat in college,” recalls the co-director of Finding Hillywood, speaking by phone from a shoot in Idaho. She was studying Japanese at the University of Hawaii when the marine coordinator of the 2003 TV movie Baywatch: Hawaiian [...]

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Videodrone: The adult westerns of Delmer Daves

Sean Axmaker — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:47:36 +0000

“Jubal” (Criterion) “3:10 to Yuma” (Criterion) Delmer Daves was a Hollywood pro with a long career and an impressive filmography. He established himself as a screenwriter with a series of light comedies and romantic melodramas (including the original 1939 Love Affair) before stepping behind the camera with the World War II adventure Destination Tokyo. Like [...]

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Framing Pictures gets Rectify’d

Richard T. Jameson — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:45:21 +0000

Framing Pictures will be staring down the opening weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival. That’s right, the talkmeisters convene Friday, May 17, 5 p.m. at Northwest Film Forum for their monthly mulling over of movies new and old. Emend that: screen experiences new and old, because part of the evening will be devoted to [...]

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Gods and monsters: The creations of Ray Harryhausen

Sean Axmaker — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:47:09 +0000

As the story goes, Ray Harryhausen was inspired to explore the possibilities of stop-motion animation after seeing King Kong with his best friend. That said friend was Ray Bradbury makes the story irresistible. That Harryhausen went on to apprentice under Willis O’Brien, the very man who sculpted and animated the king of the jungle and [...]

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The View Beyond Parallax… more reads for week of May 10

Sean Axmaker — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:52:28 +0000

There are several flippant ways to respond to Quentin Tarantino’s remarks about John Ford’s purported racism, from gruff dismissal to just tossing out Sergeant Rutledge and calling it a day. Kent Jones offers the thoughtful response, and it’s definitive. Also at Film Comment, subversion of a less haunted, more joyously playful sort, in Maitland McDonagh’s [...]

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