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Call For Entries for 3rd Annual Critics Academy at Locarno Film Festival
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April 17, 2014
Spearheaded by Indiewire and the Film Society in partnership with Film Comment, Critics Academy is a workshop for aspiring film critics that takes place during the Locarno Film Festival. August 6-16.
NYFF51: It’s A Love Thing
By Mark Lukenbill
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October 29, 2013
[NYFF Critics Academy member Mark E Lukenbill looks back at the 51st festival and explores the "aching highs" and "melancholic lows" of love in three of the festival's films, Her, Blue Is the Warmest Color and Only Lovers Left Alive.]
NYFF51: Creating Women in “Child of God” and “Her”
By Shelley Farmer
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October 21, 2013
In her final installment from the recent New York Film Festival, Critics Academy member Shelley Farmer takes a look at alternative relationships as manifest in James Franco's Child of God and Spike Jonze's Her.
NYFF51: A Tale of Two Forgers
By Judith Dry
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October 21, 2013
In her final installment from the recent New York Film Festival, Judith Dry takes a look at the concept of legitimacy via two films that played the event, Teller's doc Tim's Vermeer and Nadav Schirman’s In The Darkroom.
Critics Academy Picks Their Godard Favorites
By Brian Brooks
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October 18, 2013
On Closing Night of the New York Film Festival, several of this year's Critics Academy members were discussing the ongoing Jean-Luc Godard retrospective at Film Society, debating their favorites and which films they wanted to see for the first time or re-visit. Here are some of their choices...
NYFF51: Images and Sounds as Meditation in Lois Patiño's Experimental Films
By Vanessa Erazo
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October 17, 2013
In her final installment from the 51st New York Film Festival, Critics Academy member Vanessa Erazo "dives into" the avant-garde with a look at Lois Patiño's films and discovers a subliminal immersive experience.
NYFF51: Nathaniel Dorsky’s “Song” and “Spring” Recall “Diamonds” of a Bygone Era
By Gus Reed
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October 17, 2013
In his final installment from NYFF51, Critics Academy member Gus Reed takes a look at Nathaniel Dorsky's new work, Song and Spring, which screened in Views from the Avant-Garde at the recent festival.
NYFF51: The American Dream Dashed in “12 Years A Slave” and “The Immigrant”
By Diana Drumm
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October 16, 2013
Diana Drumm is a member of the NYFF Critics Academy. She examines the illusion American Dream in Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave and James Gray's The Immigrant.
NYFF51: Sex Gets Its Close-Up In Two French Films
By Greg Cwik
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October 14, 2013
Critics Academy member Greg Cwik gives his take on the raw portrayal of sex in two NYFF51 movies, Blue Is The Warmest Color and Stranger By the Lake.
NYFF51: Genre and Politics in “Captain Phillips” and “Omar”
By Shelley Farmer
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October 12, 2013
Shelley Farmer is a member of the NYFF Critics Academy. She examines two festival films, Paul Greengrass' "Captain Phillips" and Hany Abu-Assad's "Omar," that find personal focus amid a political story and argues that both owe a debt to genre filmmaking.