In this week’s issue, Ian Parker profiles the writer and director Noah Baumbach: “Baumbach has discovered that elective frugality gives him power.” http://nyr.kr/1798GXk

In this clip, Richard Brody discusses his DVD-of-the-Week, Terence Davies’s “The Deep Blue Sea,” starring Rachel Weisz. Watch the clip, and click-through for more from Brody on the film: http://nyr.kr/12uyOgP

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Richard Brody on the opening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” in France: 

They’ll eat it up (as well they should). Along with the reviews that are coming in, the press is offering some terrific and illuminating interviews with Anderson…

Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/ZnKKKd

Richard Brody reviews “Django Unchained,” and considers the riddle of Quentin Tarantino: http://nyr.kr/RWFksa

Bigelow maintains that everything in the film is based on first-hand accounts, but the waterboarding scene, which is likely to stir up controversy, appears to have strayed from real life…

In this week’s issue, Dexter Filkins talks to Kathryn Bigelow about making her new film on the killing of Osama bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty”: http://nyr.kr/SEeiCy

Photos from The 2012 New Yorker Festival VIP party.

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As I mentioned in my guide to this year’s New York Film Festival, I’m impatient to watch or rewatch the interviews and portraits of great directors in the “Cinéastes/Cinema of Our Times” series, which forms one of the festival’s alluring sidebars, so I was grateful to get DVD screeners of some of the entries. The one I popped in first—dear readers, you can guess—is the one devoted to Busby Berkeley, whose distinctive artistry (one of the few in the movies to be both instantly recognizable and utterly inimitable) is among the rarest and most exotic treasures of the movies, all the more so for the surprising contrast of its giddily superficial delights and its philosophical depths… 

Continue reading Richard Brody on Busby Berkeley. 

Ruth Margalit talks with Gideon Raff, who created the Israeli show that inspired “Homeland”: http://nyr.kr/Q0K62S

The restoration and reissue of “Ornette: Made in America,” Shirley Clarke’s 1985 portrait of Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist whose recordings and performances in the late fifties and early sixties were among the most liberating avant-garde breakthroughs in the history of jazz (and who, happily, is still performing, at the age of eighty-two), is cause for celebration—both for its value as a movie and for its exploration of Coleman’s art…

Click-through for more from Richard Brody on Ornette Coleman’s big adventure: http://nyr.kr/QUwZ0c

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Anticolonial Dreams: Kelefa Sanneh on Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “2016: Obama’s America” http://nyr.kr/POJ63g