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Talking About the Other America, Again Review of On the Outs
by Gregory Zucker
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Just when I become comfortable with the idea that American narrative film has died; that it has finally suffocated from its lack of vision and its infatuation with Hollywood fashion, including the so-called indie cinema, a burst of fresh air suddenly hits me in the face.
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2046: Wong Kar–Wai’s Finest Moment
by Douglas Singleton
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2046 is, quite frankly, Wong Kar-Wai’s finest film. It has the structural complexity of Chungking Express and Fallen Angels, and the thick atmospherics of In the Mood for Love.
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The Relentless Sublimity of Bertolucci’s Il Conformista
by David Meyer
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 Expanding their extraordinary list of refurbished, impossible-to-see masterpieces, Film Forum will show Il Conformista, Bernard Bertolucci’s opera of Italian Fascism and sexual repression, from July 29th through August 11th.
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The Rail invites you to a reading with Jason
Flores-Williams and Brian Carreira, along with musical
guest Steve Strunsky of the Lonesome Prairie Dogs.
Thurs., Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m.
Vox Pop--Flatbush, Brooklyn
www.voxpop.net
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OFF THE RAIL FALL 2005 at the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library - Grand Army Plaza
(718) 230-2100 in the 2nd Floor Auditorium
Tuesday, Sept. 13 from 7 till 9
John Ashbery
Leslie Scalapino
Tuesday, Oct. 18 from 7 till 9
Kenneth Bernard
Lynda Schor
Tuesday, Nov. 15 from 7 till 9
Diane Williams
Christine Schutt
Curated and hosted by the Rail's Fiction Editor Donald Breckenridge
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The Independent Press Association-NY recently honored The Brooklyn Rail with the following awards:
1st place: Best article about Immigrant Issues or Racial Justice--Gabriel Thompson, "One Immigrant's Journey" (September 2004).
1st place: Best article about the Arts*--Amy Zimmer, "The Brownsville Rec. Center" (April 04)
2nd place: Best article about the Arts--Brian Carreira, "Harlem Arts: A Faux Renaissance" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
2nd place: Best editorial or commentary--T. Hamm, "The Issue is Free Speech" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
3rd Place: Best Investigative News Story--Marjory Garrison, "Minimum Matter of Survival" (May 04)
Honorable mention: Best Investigative News Story--Williams Cole, "Housing vs. the RNC" (June 04).
Honorable mention: Best Original Feature--Yvette Walton, "My Life in the NYPD" (Dec 03/Jan 04).
Come to the Brooklyn Waterfront Festival.
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