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		<title>Is there a blog in this class? 2010</title>
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Kristin here:
Update: Back in the spring we announced that the University of Chicago Press will be publishing a collection of our blog entries. Now that volume is in press and has a title: Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking. We’re due to see page proofs soon, and the plan is [...]
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		<title>No coincidence, no story</title>
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Serendipity.
DB here:
I’ve been thinking about coincidences lately. Watching Hong Kong movies can do that to you.
Hong Kong vs. Hollywood?


Initial D; I Corrupt All Cops.
In Initial D (2005, Andrew Lau Wai-keung and Alan Mak Siu-fai, script by Felix Chong Man-keung), the protagonist Takumi is dazedly in love with the seductive schoolgirl Natsuki. Takumi&#8217;s pal Itsuki is [...]
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		<title>Never too late silents</title>
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Underworld
 Kristin here:
At last one of the gaping holes in the repertoire of classics on DVD has been filled. Tomorrow the Criterion Collection is releasing a three-disc set of Josef von Sternberg’s three final surviving silent films: Underworld (1927), The Last Command (1927), and The Docks of New York (1928).
Von Sternberg is most famous for [...]
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		<link>http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=9822</link>
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		<title>Revisiting INCEPTION</title>
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Inception.
Heading cross-country from Chicago in Dad&#8217;s old Honda Prelude, we&#8217;re no further than Wisconsin on the first day when Jonah turns from the passenger seat and tells me he&#8217;s working on something.
Christopher Nolan, on the origins of Memento
We were driving my dad&#8217;s old car from Chicago to Los Angeles. It must have been the second [...]
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		<link>http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=9770</link>
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		<title>INCEPTION; or, Dream a Little Dream within a Dream with Me</title>
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Kristin here:
Inception reminds me of the common claim that Hollywood films are no longer character-centered. Special effects and slam-bang action supposedly have replaced character traits as the basis for storytelling. Now, here is a contemporary film released as a summer tentpole film and definitely successful in box-office terms. It crossed the $200 million domestic gross [...]
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		<link>http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=9692</link>
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		<title>Tintinopolis</title>
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Photo by David Bordwell, July 2009. Tous droits réservés.
DB here:
He’s the world’s most famous fictional Belgian, miles ahead of Hercule Poirot. But I ignored him for about sixty years. Tintin wasn’t part of my childhood, and I didn&#8217;t get interested in his adventures until recently. Now, though, the scales have fallen from my eyes and [...]
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		<title>Research you can bid on</title>
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Gift bag from the New Line Cannes party of 2001
Kristin here:
Two days after I returned from “Il Cinema Ritrovato” in Bologna, the “On, Archives!” symposium began here in Madison. The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research turned fifty this year, and this was its celebration. It was held in conjunction with “The Symposium on [...]
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		<title>The long right wall explained</title>
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When the Clouds Roll By (Victor Fleming, 1919); So Close (Yuen Kwai, 2002).
DB here:
Kristin will be posting a new entry in the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here&#8217;s news of another enhancement of this site. It&#8217;s the very lengthy list of categories you see on the right.
The blog will be four years [...]
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		<link>http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=9564</link>
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		<title>Ledoux&#8217;s legacy</title>
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DB here:
Every summer Brussels hosts one of the world’s most unusual film festivals. By global standards it’s a small event: it showcases only twenty or so titles, each screened twice. The films are on the whole unknown. The prizes are minuscule by the million-plus benchmarks set by Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The venue stands behind [...]
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		<link>http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=8811</link>
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		<title>A serial for the unserious</title>
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Please silence your mobile phone during the film! Le Pied qui étreint 1: Le Micro bafouilleur sans fil (1916).
DB here, still in Yurrp:
Today the Cinémathèque Française will celebrate Bastille Day by showing one of the strangest movies the programmers could have picked&#8211;sort of the Monty Python&#8217;s Flying Circus of the 1910s.
Le Pied qui étreint (1916), [...]
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