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Carloss James Chamberlin

Carloss Chamberlin is a Delaware corporation, flying a Liberian flag, with assets in Switzerland and The Cayman Islands.

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Dziga Vertov: The Idiot

Carloss James Chamberlin
November 2006
Feature Articles
The Austrian Film Museum’s excellent DVD of Vertov’s Entuziazm affords the occasion for an insightful essay on the work of this legendary Soviet filmmaker.
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The Kinescope as Mirror: George Clooney Slyly Bites the Hand that Feeds Him

Carloss James Chamberlin
July 2006
Feature Articles
Good Night, and Good Luck as radical political cinema? Chamberlin astutely states the case for Clooney’s smuggler’s instinct for getting subversive political thought into mainstream cinema.
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Regarding Bitter Victory: Hollywood’s Philoctetes in the Desert or La Politique des Comédiens

Carloss James Chamberlin
February 2006
Nicholas Ray: Two Classics Revisited
For many, the films of Nick Ray are a litmus test for the pros and cons of la politique des auteurs. This article provides the most extensive analysis to date of the elusive ‘Nick Ray Style’.
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The Magic of Risking Everything For a Dream Nobody Sees: Million Dollar Baby: The Shadow Film

Carloss James Chamberlin
April 2005
On Recent Films
A unique interpretation of Clint Eastwood's much-praised film that counters much of the more straightforward readings of the film as a humanist melodrama.
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Draggin’ The River: The Ister

Carloss James Chamberlin
October 2004
Australian Film Culture
An essay that travels upriver from a viewing of this unique, probing film to that black sheep of twentieth century German philosophy, Martin Heidegger, and beyond.
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Drought de Seigneur: Le Bonheur

Carloss James Chamberlin
April 2004
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Le Bonheur/Happiness (1965 France 79 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Parc Film Prod: Mag Bodard Dir, Scr: Agnès Varda Phot: Claude Beausoleil, Jean Rabier Ed: Janine Verneau Art Dir: Hubert Monloup Mus: W.A. ...
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This Little Piggy Went to Market: Slamdance X Film Festival

Carloss James Chamberlin
April 2004
Festival Reports
PARK CITY – An overwarmed room somewhere in the Sodom of the Wasatch. People are looking at me with dog-eyes. They flit them down to my press-pass, which, to torture them, I have half tucked into my jacket....
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It Came from the Mystic

Carloss James Chamberlin
February 2004
Feature Articles
Revenge, innocence and the search for lost time are among the many motifs touched upon in this bold and original exegesis of one of Eastwood's most complex works.

Tavernier, Bertrand

Carloss James Chamberlin
October 2003
Great Directors
b. April 25, 1941, Lyon, France filmography bibliography web resources In his memoirs, he writes of his ambivalence towards the air raids. At first he took shelter, but as the raids became more famili...
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Emigrating to Madness: Despair (Eine Reise ins Licht)

Carloss James Chamberlin
July 2003
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Despair/Eine Reise ins Licht (1977 West Germany/France 119 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Bavaria Studios/La Societe Francaise de Production Prod: Peter Märthesheimer Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Scr: ...
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Lisbon Story: Portugal Year Zero

Carloss James Chamberlin
May 2003
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Lisbon Story (1994 Germany/France 105 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Mikado Film Prod: Paulo Branco, Joao Canijo, Ulrich Felsberg, Wim Wenders Dir, Scr: Wim Wenders Phot: Lisa Rinzler Ed: Peter Przygoda...

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