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As good a film as I've ever seen about Hollywood.  Nick Ray and Bogart at peak power.

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My favorite Hitchcock changes all the time. This one that I recently rewatched is currently the frontrunner.

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Where I would start someone who was wondering why the Cinematheque in Paris is about to launch a major retrospective on Raoul Walsh.  And then I'd follow up with another 10-15 recommendations.

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 One of the great Val Lewton-produced films.  It's lo-fi but packs a real punch.

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My favorite of the mumblecore films. I continue to track Bujalski, interested to see where his talent takes him.

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I'm a formalist.  And this Portuguese filmmaker is pushing the aesthetic side of the medium in directions as interesting as anyone I have seen in contemporary cinema.  

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 One of cinema's greatest visual poets.  One of his greatest films.

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The style that Wong Kar-wai and Christopher Doyle forged together in this period was a reminder that there were new styles (and colors and speeds) the medium had yet to experience

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 For the way Bresson strips away cinema to get to its essence

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What I would I have to say, if asked to name my favorite final film by a great filmmaker.

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Ask me who among the young filmmakers impresses me the most, gives me the most hope.  Ryusuke Hamaguchi is at the top of the list.

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 I could choose 10-15 Wiseman films.  No one takes a deeper look at America.  

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I've read where you're supposed to be more in the Chaplin or more in the Keaton camp. I'm equally in both.

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 For the way Reichardt uses one of cinema's greatest weapons, silence.

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For me, it's the most moving male/female platonic relationship the medium has ever given us.

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After Renoir, I think Pialat captured the French as well as anyone.

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One of the directors who can achieve unique cinematic rhythm and grammar with his work. The first that I saw. I see them all.

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My first discovery of film noir. There was an unfiltered and unflinching honesty about it that made me want to be a part.

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The first Carax film I ever saw. It was 1996 or 1997, I was living in Montpellier, and Carax's ability to make film feel like poetry was unlike anything I had seen since first discovering Godard.

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I remember first seeing this as part of a German Film Series in college and being most struck by its imagery. It was only later that I realized Robby Muller shot it as well as probably ten of my other favorite films.

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Announcing Reel Adventures 5!

Announcing Reel Adventures 5 November 10 at R.W. Norton Art Gallery, My Fair Lady!

General public tickets go on sale October 20.

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