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On the Outskirts: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Interchange

By Madeleine Wall Signs of progress involve mobility, whether in the form of a shorter commute, or simply the ability to go farther, faster. As a...

Madeleine Wall

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2 09.10.2018

Cinema Scope 76 Table of Contents

*Teller of Tales: Mariano Llinás on La Flor by Jordan Cronk *Everything Transitory Is But an Image: Andrea Bussmann on Fausto by Josh Cabrita and...

Adrian Kinloch

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3 28.09.2018

Tous les garçons et les filles: Philippe Lesage’s Genèse and Les démons

Paul Ahmarani (Lehrer Perrier) © beforfilms By Adam Nayman On the basis of Les démons (2015) and his latest film Genèse—I haven’t caught up yet...

Adam Nayman

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4 28.09.2018

Teller of Tales: Mariano Llinás on La Flor

By Jordan Cronk “Some will say I reinvented the wheel. Yes, I’d say, I reinvented the wheel.”—La Flor, Episode 4 To begin, a question: What...

Jordan Cronk

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2 28.09.2018

Transit (Christian Petzold, Germany/France)

By James Lattimer Christian Petzold’s progressive drift away from realism gathers pace in Transit, another melodrama of impossibility and despair...

James Lattimer

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1 28.09.2018

Issue 76 Editor’s Note

By Mark Peranson.  The night that Mariano Llinás arrived in Locarno, I ran into him drinking with his producer Laura Citarella and a few friends,...

Mark Peranson

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1 28.09.2018

First Person Plural: On Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind

By Phil Coldiron “May he not be knave, fool, and genius altogether?” —Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade It begins with a...

Phil Coldiron

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1 28.09.2018

Global Discoveries on DVD: Auteurist Updates

By Jonathan Rosenbaum Paul Verhoeven gives exceptionally good audio commentary, especially on the Kino Lorber Blu-ray of Spetters (1980), a...

Jonathan Rosenbaum

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1 28.09.2018

Mass Ornaments: Jodie Mack on The Grand Bizarre

By Blake Williams “For the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of...

Blake Williams

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1 28.09.2018

Deaths of Cinema | The Cracks of the World: Hu Bo (1988-2017)

By Celluloid Liberation Front China’s growing economic clout and rising prominence in world affairs can help illuminate some essential if...

Celluloid Liberation Front

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1 28.09.2018

Touch Me I’m Sick: Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell

By Jason Anderson The phony magazine cover glimpsed in the early moments of Her Smell may not have the same heady metatextual allure as that of so...

Jason Anderson

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2 28.09.2018

The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener, US) — Special Presentations

By Steve Macfarlane Every day is a film festival on Netflix, and so Nicole Holofcener’s unfortunately-titled The Land of Steady Habits (I guess...

Steve Macfarlane

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2 19.09.2018

The Vice of Hope (Edoardo de Angelis, Italy) — Contemporary World Cinema

By Michael Sicinski The Vice of Hope gets its title from a rather sanitized version of a phrase spoken several times during the course of the film....

Michael Sicinski

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2 18.09.2018

Roads in February (Katherine Jerkovic, Canada/Uruguay) — Contemporary World Cinema

  By Josh Cabrita When Sarah (Arlen Aguayo Stewart) arrives in South America during the month of February there is a natural contrast between her...

Josh Cabrita

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5 16.09.2018