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16 Nov Guillermo del Toro’s “Buñuel in Mexico” TIFF Master Classes & the state of Buñuel on film & disc

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Last week's "Luis Buñuel in Mexico" three-night master class with Guillermo del Toro at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto was a fantastic event. Before I get to some screening takeaways, I want to say up front that I really like how TIFF is delivering on curation...

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Rome Open City

26 Apr Blu-ray diary: Roberto Rossellini—The War Trilogy (BFI limited-edition Blu-ray box set)

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Film disc collectors often talk guiltily, or regretfully, or occasionally scornfully, about "double-dipping"—buying a new Blu-ray edition of a film previously purchased on DVD or on an inferior Blu-ray. But if there was ever a case for it (as well as for owning a multi-region player),...

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La Rabbia

01 Jun DVD diary: piecing together The Rage (Pasolini: La rabbia)

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"The best thing in my half of the film—the only part of the film worth saving—is the sequence dedicated to the death of Marilyn Monroe." Let me cut to the chase and skip to the most useful bit of information that I can share—the 83-minute "reconstructed...

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Anna Magnani in Rome Open City

14 Dec DVD diary: Rossellini’s War Trilogy—completing the cycle

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My fall 2013 encounter with Rossellini has transpired in a strange order...

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Porcile

03 Mar DVD diary: Pigsty, or, a bourgeoisporkalypse (Pasolini 7: Porcile)

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The explicit political content of the film has as its object, as its historical situation, Germany. But the film does not speak of Germany; rather, of the ambiguous relationship between old and new capitalism. Germany was chosen as the extreme instance. The implicit political content of the film is a...

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Terence Stamp in Teorema

12 Feb DVD diary: Theorem, or, the Discreet Collapse of the Bourgeoisie (Pasolini 6: Teorema)

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It had been about seven years since the first and last time that I saw Pasolini's Teorema. It seemed a bolt from the blue; my only previous exposure to Pasolini had been The Gospel According to Matthew, and I wasn't quite sure what to expect....

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Toto and Ninetto Davoli in Hawks and Sparrows

09 Feb DVD diary: The little birds—and bad birds—of Pasolini (Pasolini 4: Uccellacci e uccellini)

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I agree it is not very funny. It makes you think more than laugh. But when it was put on in Montreal and New York the audiences laughed a lot, to my great astonishment, unlike in Italy, where they were a bit disappointed...

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Ettore Garofolo and Anna Magnani in Mamma Roma

30 Dec DVD diary: an un-virginal Mary (Pasolini 2: Mamma Roma)

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In North America, only the final four Pasolini features are available on Blu-ray, three of these in Criterion's Trilogy of Life package that was released just last month. A further four (Accatone, The Gospel According to Matthew, Oedipus Rex, Medea) are now available on Blu-ray...

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Sátántangó

29 Sep Watching Sátántangó (on DVD)

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I'm playing catchup with Bela Tarr, now, because just over a year ago I saw The Turin Horse and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind.  That's a film that is pardigmatic difficult viewing, gruelling by any measure, minimal, oblique, demanding—so...

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