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Review of Night Across the Street (2012)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

The film itself is quintessential Ruiz, and it will be, and I suppose must be said, a thematically appropriate final film…

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Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

We find someone embracing the strange; dedicating not just a film to it, but letting it, for the most, and brilliant, part letting that strangeness…

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Review of House of Pleasures (2011)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Yet there is something else here, mysterious, practically intangible within the confines both of the brothel and the genre, something that…

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Review of The Last of the Unjust (2013)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Claude Lanzmann has created a new film whose heart is the interview footage shot for his monumental Shoah project of Austrian Benjamin Murmelstein,…

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Review of Queen of the Desert (2015)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Yet for a director so adept at discovering, eliciting and pursuing a kind of inspired mania and adventurousness in his fellow man, coming across…

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Review of Drug War (2012)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

To's first full beachhead into Mainland filmmaking...thus combines exhilaratingly articulated structural formalism with a politically ripe…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

American Honey tries to approach its American subculture...with a naïveté flush with a sensual, free-flowing and empathetic appreciation…

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Review of Certain Women (2016)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

From the first shot of Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women-a grainy Montana landscape grayed by winter, with hills so soft in they could be painted…

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Review of Wendy and Lucy (2008)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Giving quiet, but pointed consideration to the cinematically ignored economic anguish and wistful unhappiness of one end of American life…

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Review of Paterson (2016)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Jarmusch's pared approach seems to emphasize so little…

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Review of In Jackson Heights (2015)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

If you aren't a New Yorker familiar with the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and peoples of the area, the opening to In Jackson Heights, one…

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Review of Cloverfield (2008)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

What a frustrating mess of possibilities and failed opportunities Cloverfield is…

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Review of My Joy (2010)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

My Joy's striking structure is directly inspired by a strange record of anecdotes that disturb the story of a young truck driver's route…

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Review of I Am Legend (2007)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

the film's final act turn towards quick, out of nowhere resolutions, hokey attempts at evocations of faith, and a rapid increase of sentimental…

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Review of Student (2012)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

You cannot look away from Darezhan Omirbaev's Student, as you can't look away from any of the Kazakh director's films, for each and every shot…

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Review of Paradise: Love (2012)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Here, each shot tells a story, silent cinema style, and Seidl's cinema resembles the railroad-like cinema construction of the silents…

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Review of A Dangerous Method (2011)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

The film shocks with its sheer stateliness, its almost quiet abstraction of tumultuous melodrama…

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Review of Youth Without Youth (2007)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Everything is futile in Francis Ford Coppola's first movie in over a decade, Youth Without Youth, a sort of Indiana Jones meets pulp Proust…

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Review of Cosmopolis (2012)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Continuing along a line introduced in last year's A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg pushes his cinema towards a talky abstraction in his…

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Review of Melancholia (2011)

By Daniel Kasman (55) for MUBI (191) on 16 Nov 2017

Suffering from a vague script, vague performances, and even vaguer mise-en-scène, Lars von Trier's Melancholia achieves a strange momentum…

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