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2006 Stories by Michael Atkinson

• Buzzworthy

  published January 17, 2006

  Spanish master Víctor Erice graduated from film school in the early 1960s, and has since earned a living writing criticism, directing... More >>

• The Newer World: Malick Cuts Fat, Keeps Movie Intact

  published January 17, 2006

  Maybe it should happen more often—a willful auteur, after his/her mega-epic has been released to mixed critical reaction and audience... More >>

• Paving the Way for the 'Anti-Western'

  published January 17, 2006

  The last of the red-hot, golden-age Hollywood genre buckaroos, Budd Boetticher represented a long-vanished prototype: the man's-man studio... More >>

• Play it Again Sam: Testicular Havoc in Blood-Stained Box Set

  published January 10, 2006

  The self-loathing underworld god-king of masculine genre angst and the world's first genuine action craftsman, Sam Peckinpah made movies that bark... More >>

• Film

  published January 10, 2006

  In a career that began with an 8mm camera, Lars von Trier has personified many movie- culture paradigms: formal nose-thumber, malcontented... More >>

• Latest Peru Doc Suffers From Fujimori's Cult of Personality

  published January 10, 2006

  The Fall of Fujimori is more—or less—than the flip side to last week's Film Forum Peru primer State of Fear: It's a... More >>

• Werner Herzog's Bizarre and Hypnotic Film

  published January 10, 2006

  Front-loaded with multiple Best Doc awards, Werner Herzog's bizarre and hypnotic film is actually the work of two men, two competing visions, two... More >>

• German Alpine Fantasies Released

  published January 10, 2006

  It might be that for most of us, all we know of the peculiar German cinema genre plainly dubbed "the mountain film" is the orange-hued parody of... More >>

• Secret Agent: Rohmer's Espionage Thriller Debuts on DVD

  published January 3, 2006

  Say it ain't so: Eric Rohmer, perennial fair-haired cineaste of Upper West Side importables, the most lovably French of surviving New Wavers,... More >>

• Me, Myself & Iréne

  published January 3, 2006

  An introverted yet eccentric French road movie–romance, When the Sea Rises possesses a scattershot charm, a distanced attitude toward... More >>

• Revival Tent: Preacher Lies to Choir, Choir Eats it Up

  published January 3, 2006

  In 1972, Sarah Kernochan and Howard Smith's Marjoe was enough of an eye-opening sensation to make news of itself and Oscar winners of its... More >>

• Methodical Doc Untangles Peru's Knotty History of Violence

  published January 3, 2006

  An informative if shrill primer on the last 35 years of Peruvian plight, the new doc State of Fear may only be effective as an educational... More >>

• Fritz Lang's Obscure Gothic-Noir

  published January 3, 2006

  This 1950 Gothic-noir by Fritz Lang, made on a shoestring for Republic, has been a perennially hard-to-see and nearly lost spasm of Langian... More >>