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	<title>Parallax View &#187; by David Coursen</title>
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		<title>Missing the Point: A.O. Scott, Manohla Dargis and the Pleasures of &#8220;Difficult&#8221; Cinema</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2011/06/20/missing-the-point-a-o-scott-manohla-dargis-and-the-pleasures-of-difficult-cinema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dan Kois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The June 19 New York Times Entertainment Section ran a dialogue following up on a previous article in the May 1 Times Magazine by Dan Kois whose flavor, I suspect, is captured by the introduction the June 19 story suggesting that the article equated watching Solaris with eating &#8220;cultural vegetables;&#8221; something Krois has been told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detour: Closing Down the Open Road</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2011/02/16/detour-closing-down-the-open-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ann Savage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edgar G. Ulmer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Originally published in Movietone News 48, February 1976] Detour is a masterpiece of wry perversity, a film virtually constructed on irony and paradox: an incredibly claustrophobic film about hitchhiking on the &#8220;open road&#8221;; the bleakest of films noirs, with the bulk of the action taking place during the day and away from the city. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parallax View&#8217;s Best of 2010</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2011/01/01/parallax-best-of-the-year-lists-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[by Andrew Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by David Coursen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by Jay Kuehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by John Hartl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by Kathleen Murphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by Richard T. Jameson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by Robert Horton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[by Sean Axmaker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome 2011 with one last look back at the best releases of 2010, as seen by the contributors to Parallax View. Sean Axmaker 1. Carlos 2. Let Me In 3. The Social Network 4. White Material 5. Winter&#8217;s Bone 6. The Ghost Writer 7. Wild Grass 8. Eccentricities Of A Blond Haired Girl 9. Sweetgrass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice in the Cites</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2010/10/02/alice-in-the-cites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[by David Coursen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wim Wenders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alice in the Cites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RÃ¼diger Vogler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robby Muller]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Originally published in the Oregon Daily Emerald on December 1, 1977] After a striking opening shotâ€”partially reversed at the end of the filmâ€”Alice In The Cities (1974) introduces a solitary figure, forlornly sitting on sand, his back against a post, self-descriptively singing, â€œunder the boardwalk, down by the sea, on a blanket with my baby, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peckinpah Doesn&#8217;t Sing Along</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2010/05/14/peckinpah-doesnt-sing-along/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam Peckinpah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bring Me The Head Of Alredo Garcia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Isela Vega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Oates]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Peckinpah, arguably the foremost American director to emerge during the sixties, developedâ€”not to say cultivatedâ€”a persona that made his name virtually synonymous with â€œexcessive screen violence.â€ While the accent was often placed on the noun, the first adjective also fit: Peckinpah was a man of appetitesâ€”the Randolph Scott character in Ride The High Country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eric Rohmer (1920-2010)</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2010/01/24/eric-rohmer-1920-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claireâ€™s Knee]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Le Rayon Vert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Night at Maudâ€™s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Aviatorâ€™s Wife]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Watching an Eric Rohmer film was famously described by Harry Moseby, the Gene Hackman character in Arthur Pennâ€™s Night Moves, (1975) (in a line quoted in both Rohmerâ€™s Wikipedia entry and his New York Times obituary), as â€œlike watching paint dry.â€ Itâ€™s my favorite movie line about a film-maker, andâ€”along with de Niroâ€™s bounty-hunter in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing Focus: Three Herzog Shorts &#8211; The Dark Glow of the Mountains, The Ballad of the Little Soldier, Little Dieter Needs to Fly</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2009/09/05/losing-focus-three-herzog-shorts-the-dark-glow-of-the-mountains-the-ballad-of-the-little-soldier-little-dieter-needs-to-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Ballad of the Little Soldier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Glow of the Mountains]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984), suffers from limitations imposed by its subject: the effort of two daredevil climbers to scale two difficult mountains back-to-back, without a break in between. They describe this as something never done before and much more dangerous than climbing one peak. The aesthetic problem, though, is that the available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stroszek</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2009/09/02/stroszek/</link>
		<comments>http://parallax-view.org/2009/09/02/stroszek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[by David Coursen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Werner Herzog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stroszek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even when he made Stroszek (1978), Herzogâ€™s work had reflected parallel interests in documentary and narrative fiction forms. The sublime Fata Morgana (1971) (despite Herzogâ€™s preposterous claim that it is a sci-fi film about an intergalactic war) and the wonderfully perverse Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970), almost as much as the explicitly documentary Land of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart of Glass</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2009/09/01/heart-of-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Werner Herzog seemed to court risks, artistic and personal. Heart of Glass (1976), may be his most ambitious, stylized, and explicitly allegorical film, and seems in retrospect to mark the point where his relentless risk-taking overreached his limits. Heart of Glass in conventional terms is a failure, ponderous, stilted, overwhelmingly pretentious, but one that still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land of Silence and Darkness: What it Means to be Human</title>
		<link>http://parallax-view.org/2009/08/31/land-of-silence-and-darkness-what-it-means-to-be-human/</link>
		<comments>http://parallax-view.org/2009/08/31/land-of-silence-and-darkness-what-it-means-to-be-human/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Coursen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) was Herzog&#8217;s first feature-length documentary (his previous feature, Fata Morgana [1971] begs to be classed as a metaphysical documentary, but by Herzog&#8217;s daffy description, is sci-fi). The subject matter, the struggle for human communication, is such a natural for Herzog that in some ways the film is quintessential early [...]]]></description>
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