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Update your Bookmarks 23 Jan 2010 | 09:20 am
The House Next Door has moved to http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/ The current address, http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com, will also redirect you. See you there!
“Turkish” Delight: Crossing the Bridge 19 Jan 2010 | 06:30 pm
By Ali Arikan When Nuri Bilge Ceylan won the Best Director Award for Three Monkeys at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, he ended his speech with a simple sentence: “I dedicate this film to my lon...
Links for the Day: Blame Sonny, Gray or George? 19 Jan 2010 | 06:01 pm
There's been a good many tempests directed at Ben Shapiro's Big Hollywood post "Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Time." Personal favorite response is from Victor Morton of Rightwing Film Geek—a ...
Head, but? 16 Jan 2010 | 11:55 am
I understand exactly how this bird feels. (Thanks Michael Grammar.)
Big Love Mondays (on Thursday): Season 4, Ep. 1, "Free at Last" 15 Jan 2010 | 06:10 pm
by Clara Loginov After watching the beginning of season four of Big Love, I think we can safely give up on ever having a premiere of this show that isn’t a busy and exhausting whirlwind. The show wil...
Tales Well Told: Eric Rohmer, 1920-2010 13 Jan 2010 | 06:50 am
By Dan Callahan When Eric Rohmer entered a space with his camera, whether it was a Parisian apartment or a beach or a forest, he somehow managed to enlarge that space into an environment that shimmer...
The Common-You-Know-What, or Claire's Kootykat 12 Jan 2010 | 03:45 pm
By Odienator So, Eric Rohmer is dead, which is not at all surprising given that he was 89. What is surprising, at least for me, is my immediate thought upon hearing of his death. I thought of Father ...
Eric Rohmer: April 4th, 1920—January 11th, 2010 12 Jan 2010 | 07:00 am
Thank you for your films, Monsieur Scherer. Perceval will shepherd you. Say hello to Pascale as you pass the full moon. UPDATE: Dave Kehr says it best.
Before Sunrise and Before Sunset: Laden With Happiness and Tears 11 Jan 2010 | 06:10 pm
A Rumination by Dan Jardine There are many reasons that Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset demand, like Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, The Godfather Parts I and II, to be addre...
How to Remake Rambo for $95.51 10 Jan 2010 | 04:00 pm
By Matt Zoller Seitz [Editor's Note: This is Matt's latest video essay for the L Magazine. The introduction is reprinted below, with the video embedded.] "The old formula of committed madness feels ...
