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Happy 75th birthday to one of cinema’s most fearless and curious adventurers, Werner Herzog!

The exhaustive breadth of Amit Dutta’s films refuses easy summation. My first encounter was with a dreamy rendition of rural life in India—the breathtaking Kramasha (2007)—and I have followed his films ever since. They traverse genres, moving effortlessly from crafted scenario to spontaneous encounter, from mindful self-reflexivity to ghostly magic. Art—literature, music, and particularly painting—permeates Dutta’s work. It appears as the subject of his films, yet it is also absorbed into their very material as cinematography and soundscape—as cinema. Sudden sweeping camera pans veer left only to turn right, and surprising sounds of alarm bells and ticking clocks startle us. Like paintings, these films have surface tension. Inches behind this surface lies a cavernous, echoing space where unhurried tracking shots and distant ambiences suggest a less immediate kind of time, one that is long past. Just as such temporal and spatial registers commingle and blur in Dutta’s films, so do art and nature, indeed, the man-made and the natural, until their distinctions fade and make way for the rich resonances that emerge from the gaps in between. I interviewed Amit over the course of a month on the occasion of his upcoming retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive that will include a sneak preview of his latest work-in-progress, The Unknown Craftsman.

Acclaimed artist and filmmaker Charles Atlas reflects on working with Rauschenberg on Merce Cunningham dance productions during the 1970s and how lessons he learned from the artist impacted his own work and collaboration on MoMA’s current exhibition, “Rauschenberg: Among Friends.”

Today marks the 74th birthday of the masterful cinematographer Dante Spinotti. Here are ten superb shots from his long and eclectic career.

We’re thrilled to announce the December 5 release of 100 YEARS OF OLYMPIC FILMS, a landmark box set that documents the history of the Olympic Games through the lenses of an international array of filmmakers, including some of the world’s most acclaimed masters. Available in thirty-two-disc Blu-ray and forty-three-disc DVD editions, 100 YEARS OF OLYMPIC FILMS is now available for preorder from Criterion.com!

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We just announced our juries. See them all.

Sometimes it’s better to stay indoors with this inexplicable feeling.

See the list here.

Mary Karr, The Art of Memoir No. 1 (via theparisreview)