The Duchess of Langeais (Ne touchez pas la hache)
France 2007
Jacques Rivette is considered among the more experimental of the French New Wave filmmakers so I was a little surprised at how ordinary The Duchess of Langeais seemed on the surface. Based on a Balzac novella, it begins with an obviously distraught Napoleonic era general (Guillaume [...]

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Ethan & Joel: The Brothers Coen 
This week, the only movie that really matters:

No Country for Old Men. Ok, I know I usually put the wide releases first, but tough shit. For me, the Coen Brothers movie is the movie of the year. It’s the movie of the last several years actually. Here’s supposedly how the release is going [...]

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