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Wednesday, August 1st, 2012

Sight & Sound’s once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time

Tonight in London, film magazine Sight & Sound (published by the British Film Institute) announces its once-in-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time, “perhaps the most recognized poll of its kind in the world.” The poll was first conducted in 1952. Earlier this year they asked about 800 critics, programmers, academics and curators from

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

DVD. ‘Life, Above All’

Oliver Schmitz’s South African AIDS drama, “Life, Above All,” is now on sale on on DVD in the United States. I was invited to a pre-screening of this film when it first came out this summer and would strongly...