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3 July 2008 9:11 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michelle Orange

Samuel Johnson said it was the last refuge of scoundrels, and if that's true, then I predict a nation-wide crime wave and a week-long run on golden toothpicks and hairless cats, because at this time of year patriotism will not be denied. Refuse to partake of -- or at least acknowledge -- it at your political and gustatory peril. With that in mind, we offer a list of films that might satisfy those on the patriotic fence, those who prefer their patriotism (and their marshmallow salad) a little bittersweet. Like Mr. Johnson, I am not an American, and much of what I know about everything, including American patriotism, I learned at the movies; these films have taught me the most about the boons and the bummers involved in loving this country.

Glory (1989)

Many countries with historically subjugated populations have stories similar to that explored in 1989's "Glory

Michelle Orange

30 April 2008 3:39 PM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warner Bros. plans to make home theaters look much like theaters did a half century ago with the release of the classic How the West Was Won, starring John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, on Blu-ray disc in August. The high-definition video will offer a "SmileBox" version -- essentially making the screen look as if it were curved like an old Cinerama screen. Only a handful of features were made in the Cinerama process, which featured a screen so large that it wrapped around the audience's field of vision, producing a 3D effect. The screen was so large that it took three projectors to fill it -- one projecting onto the left third of the screen, another the middle, and another the right. Likewise, the movies were shot with a special camera that shot the three images simultaneously. While nature documentaries and thrill-ride experiences were initially released in the Cinerama process, 1962's How the West was Won was the first feature film to be filmed and projected in the process. Warner Home Video's Blu-ray release will also include the documentary Cinerama Adventure.

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25 March 2008 6:48 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michael Atkinson

The seminal will behind everything that matters about sub-Saharan African cinema, and at the same time the world's most guileless filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene was virtually a one-man continental film culture for 40 years, establishing the cinematic syntax and priorities for an entire section of mankind, and its relationship with movies. From the first mini-feature, "Borom Sarret" (1964) to the last, vibrant, polemical film "Moolaadé" (2004), Sembene's work aches with sociopolitical austerity . as an artist, he's virtually style-free, almost unprofessional, but possessed of a voice as clear and uncomplicated as sunlight. Primal, unsophisticated experiences, the films are simple but never simplistic, lowbrow but unsensational, fastidiously realistic and yet unconcerned with sustaining illusion. His filmography is more or less divided between cool, undramatic autopsies on post-colonial norms and folly (1966's "Black Girl," 1968's "Mandabi," 1974's "Xala") and demi-epics of colonial horror (1971's Emitai, 1977's "Ceddo," 1987's "Camp de Thiaroye"). The slow burn,

Michael Atkinson

3 articles from 2008