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Top 25 Films of the 1980s
25. The Cyclist (Makhmalbaf, Iran, 1987) Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s incredible film centers on Nasim, an Afghan immigrant living in Tehran who is virtually forced to perform a circus sideshow-like endurance...
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Filmmaker Interview: Jonathan Hourigan, pt. 1
From January 21st through February 29th the Gene Siskel Film Center will hold a complete retrospective of the films of my favorite director of all time, the French master Robert Bresson. In...
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Filmmaker Interview: Jonathan Hourigan, pt. 2
This is the second part of my interview with filmmaker and teacher Jonathan Hourigan who worked as an assistant on Robert Bresson’s L’argent. Part one was published earlier this week. MGS: How has...
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My Top 200 Films of All Time
In the past week, this blog has reached the milestone of having been viewed 100,000 times. To celebrate, I am posting a list of my favorite films of all time, one that I have been working on for what...
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