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...blossoming of a new European cinema in the decades following the Second World War marked the beginning of a distinct cultural epoch on the continent. The 50s and 60s brought a generation of cinematic geniuses like Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Federico Fellini to light, along with a diverse set of styles whose ambition and vision are still tremendously influential. But the future of filmmaking in Europe was not so bright, nor its future so clear, in the last days of the war. By 1945, the national film industries that hadn’t been hijacked for propaganda purposes...
...murder of Chandra Levy, a 24-year-old intern in the Federal Bureau of Prisons, has become Washington, D.C.'s best-known cold case. But the trail heated up this week, with Levy's parents and law enforcement sources indicating an arrest was imminent. The likely suspect: Ingmar Guandique, a 27-year-old Salvadoran immigrant currently serving time for assaulting two women in the spring and summer of 2001 in the same park where Levy's remains were found. Guandique had also been implicated in the murder by a fellow inmate, who claimed the ex-construction worker had confessed...
...success of Deep Throat, "If people wanted to interview me because I was a porno filmmaker, I just was not interested in talking to them." There had been gifted directors - Radley Metzger, Russ Meyer - making softcore in the '60s, but Damiano had higher ambitions. He wanted to be Ingmar F---in' Bergman...
...since life is not perhaps simply a series of bed partners from whom we discover that the greatest wisdom is realizing we always have more to learn from others, and about ourselves. The movie has neither the sardonic heft of Max Ophuls' La Ronde nor the emotional precision of Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night, two films that also dance the change-partners gavotte. But Vicky Cristina Barcelona is so engaging so much of the time that it feels like a modest rejuvenation: evidence that a summer in Spain can do wonders for a writer-director...
...culture. It’s peppered with ads. It’s oddly time-sucking in a way other entertainments aren’t; no one’s ever looked up suddenly to find they’ve wasted eight hours in a George Eliot novel or an Ingmar Bergman marathon. But with all of these considerations in mind, television is still an art form, a medium. No one stops going to see movies just because some films aren’t as good as “The Godfather,” yet plenty of the smartest, most...