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From Venice: Herzog Vs. Herzog

German filmmaker Werner Herzog has two films screening in competition for the Golden Lion this year at the Venice Film Festival. Nicolas Cage stars in Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Herzog's high profile remake of Abel Ferrarara's 1992 cult classic. Herzog's My Son, My Son, W...

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About Wo...ent Film — September 05

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Review: Taking Woodstock

Ang Lee's movies can be awfully serious. Think about the filmmaker's two most recent works, Lust, Caution (2007) and Brokeback Mountain (2005), tragic tales of espionage gone awry and a closeted gay love affair that ends in despair. No such sorry fate awaits the immensely likable Elliot Teich...

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About Wo...ent Film — August 28

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New on DVD: Adventureland, Trouble the Water, Rudo y Cursi

Falco rocks "Amadeus" on repeat in Greg Mottola's lovely and hilarious Adventureland, out on DVD today. Set in a seedy Pennsylvania amusement park in 1987 and starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristin Steward, Adventureland is still one of our favorite films of the year. (Compare prices.) ...

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About Wo...ent Film — August 25

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Review: Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino goes to war and comes back with Nazi scalps and a few indelible images. The gleeful misspellings of the title set the tone for a movie that's as audacious and contradictory as anything the former video store wunderkind has done. Already, there are cries of Holocaust denial, ...

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About Wo...ent Film — August 20

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DVD Review: The GoodTimesKid

Rodolfo Cano meets Rodolfo Cano in Azazel Jacobs' sly comedy The GoodTimesKid, released on DVD by boutique distributor Benten Films in a characteristically appealing package. In what appears to be an act of desperation or perhaps boredom, disaffected hipster Rodolfo I (played by writer-dir...

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About Wo...ent Film — August 18

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New York Film Festival Announces Lineup

We always associate fall in New York with the arrival of the New York Film Festival, which this year runs from September 25 to October 11. Venerable French filmmaker Alain Resnais new film Wild Grass (Les Herbes folles, pictured) will open the 2009 edition. The film features two of our all ...

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About Wo...ent Film — August 12