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This x That: Agyness Deyn quits modelling to do whatever the...

This x That: Agyness Deyn quits modelling to do whatever the hell else she wants because she’s Agyness Deyn. Ceiling porn . Laurent Champoussin’s Cardiovascular Paper . An impossible papercraft castle that took its creator four years to put together. Apple/pear-shaped Post-it notes . Mean Green Knitting Machine . Timbuk2’s sweet Dolores Cooler messenger bag holds 12 cans of PBR or...

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Ay'dan Izlenimler

I am a blogger from Istanbul , Turkey . On my personal blog which is called " Ay'dan İzlenimler (Impressions from the Moon), I write my views over the movies, music and cultural events. A Trip to the Moon (1902) .. Georges Méliès Aelita (1924) .. Yakov Protazanov Citizen Kane (1941) .. Orson Welles Casablanca (1942) .. Michael Curtiz Sunset Boulevard (1950) .. Billy Wilder The...

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Amon Düül II x 1969/1971

There really is no end to the serpentine jamming that Amon Düül gets into. The various line ups might have had varying impact on music, but a good chunk of it, in general, is pretty decent. That clip up top even made it into Niklashauser Abfart , a 1970 Rainer Werner Fassbinder flick from 1970.

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Remembrance of Specialty Film Things Past with Reid

That could be a web show (get on it Reid! :), but, for the moment, a blog entry will have to do. From Reid Rosefelt's recent post " What Andrei Tarkovsky Said About Francis Coppola ": "In the early 80’s, I was running a movie PR firm called “Reid Rosefelt Publicity.” The title sounded impressive, but it was only me and an assistant or two working out of my bedroom in...

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10th June

LGBT people born today: 1911 – Terrence Rattigan – UK Playwright / Screenwriter – Died 30th November 1977 1957 – Sebastian Bleisch – German screenwriter / Director 1957 – Ronnie Burkett – Canadian puppeteer 1958 – Clemens Cornielje – Dutch Politician 1964 – Ben Daniels – UK Actor 1973 – Juan Jiminez – Spanish Porn star 1978...

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In Focus | 'The Pictures Generation'

Courtesy of B.Z. and Michael Schwartz "Big Camera, Small Camera," 1977, by Laurie Simmons "The Pictures Generation," a new show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, features the work of artists reared in the burgeoning, media environment of post-WWII America.

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Fassbinder

Today is the 27th anniversary of Rainer Werner Fassbinder vacating his director's chair. It was front page news, I remember (I saw it on the front page of the Daily Telegraph). I shall be devoting space to RWF in my forthcoming book, New Waves in Cinema , due out next year. In the meantime, raise a glass in the great man's honour. (Or, perhaps more in keeping with his own predilictions, do something...

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Robert Fulford: A german scandal, a killer spy

The accepted history of violent left-wing radicalism in 1970s Germany suggests that it began, like the First World War, with a single killing. On June 2, 1967, during a demonstration against the Shah of Iran’s visit to West Berlin, a policeman named Karl-Heinz Kurras, supposedly a right-wing gun collector, shot an unarmed student. Supported by his union and much of the press, Kurras successfully...

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The Century of Films

The Century of Films The Century of Films was a weekly column by British film critic Derek Malcolm published in The Guardian between 2000 and 2002. Malcolm chose one hundred films he deemed artistically or culturally important. In choosing the films, he used two guidelines. First, only one film would be chosen for each director highlighted. Also, he tried to include as many films from different countries...

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The State of Things

DVD Video Review: Wim Wenders' 1982 film, an insight into the American film industry, is the latest for the deluxe Axiom DVD treatment. Noel Megahey reviews.

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Bavaria goes in at 'Deep End'

Home Ent News: Skolimowski film to be restored, re-released -- Bavaria Film Intl. is following its successful restoration of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered" for the high-def DVD market with Jerzy Skolimowski's second English-language film, "Deep End."

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Talbot paved way for indie industry

Inside New York / Tribeca Film Festival: Art-film exhibitor has made career of good taste -- Dan Talbot, the renowned art-film exhibitor and distributor, "never cared about the film marketplace," he says. "How I managed to survive all these years with zero interest in the business end of things always puzzled me."

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Teuton shorts set for MoMA

Gotham: 'Germany' to kick off film exhibition -- "Germany 09," a compilation pic comprising 13 shorts by leading Teutonic filmmakers, kicks off this month's contempo German film exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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MoMA celebrates German cinema

International News: 'Germany 09' to open Kino! At Thirty -- "Germany 09," a compilation pic comprised of 13 shorts by Germany's leading filmmakers, kicks off this month's contemporary German film exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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MoMA Marks 30 Years of Celebrating Contemporary German Cinema with Kino! at Thirty: New Cinema from Germany

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents Kino! at Thirty: New Cinema from Germany, the Museum's 30th annual survey of recent German cinema, from April 22 through 30, 2009. Over the last three decades, MoMA has celebrated new cinema from Germany with an annual presentation of