Figure Study for the Vertumnus and Pomona (Jacopo Pontormo, c. 1520; black chalk)

Figure Study for the Vertumnus and Pomona (Jacopo Pontormo, c. 1520; black chalk)

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Vincenzo Peruggia (1881-1947). On August 21, 1911, Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. He kept it in a trunk in his Paris apartment for the next two years. 

Vincenzo Peruggia (1881-1947). On August 21, 1911, Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. He kept it in a trunk in his Paris apartment for the next two years. 

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Anechoic Chamber, ESTEC, The Netherlands (Vincent Fournier, 2008)

Anechoic Chamber, ESTEC, The Netherlands (Vincent Fournier, 2008)

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Stray Dog (Daidō Moriyama, 1971)

Stray Dog (Daidō Moriyama, 1971)

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I’m Falling in Love (Jean Fautrier, 1957; oil on paper)

I’m Falling in Love (Jean Fautrier, 1957; oil on paper)

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The Floor Scrapers (Gustave Caillebotte, 1875; oil on canvas)

The Floor Scrapers (Gustave Caillebotte, 1875; oil on canvas)

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Bodyguard (Ali Khamraev, 1979)
Triptych (Ali Khamraev, 1979)

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Excerpt from a lecture by Jonathan Rosenbaum, following a screening of Ernst Lubitsch’s The Man I Killed (Nov. 12, 2008)

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Homme s’essuyant la jambe (Gustave Caillebotte, 1884; oil on canvas)

Homme s’essuyant la jambe (Gustave Caillebotte, 1884; oil on canvas)

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Roland Topor

Roland Topor

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The Sky Turns (Mercedes Alvarez, 2004)

The Sky Turns (Mercedes Alvarez, 2004)

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Serge Daney: Itinéraire d’un ‘ciné-fils’ (Pierre-André Boutang & Dominique Rabourdin, 1992)

Serge Daney: Itinéraire d’un ‘ciné-fils’ (Pierre-André Boutang & Dominique Rabourdin, 1992)

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Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Alexandre Astruc, 1955)
Rampage [both versions] (William Friedkin, 1987)* 
They Were There (Errol Morris, 2011)

* …would make for an excellent middle in a theoretical triple bill with The Conviction (Marco Bellocchio, 1990) at one end and White Dog (Samuel Fuller, 1982) at the other. The first two (The Conviction, Rampage) are genre bait-and-switches wherein a respectable sort of exploitation film (an erotic thriller in the former, a serial killer movie in the latter) gives way to a court room drama with a troubled prosecutor protagonist about half-an-hour in; the last two (Rampage, White Dog) are earnest, Ennio Morricone-scored tales of men stubbornly struggling to prove / disprove the inherent evil of a killer.    

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“Lucian Freud Working at Night” (David Dawson, 2005)

“Lucian Freud Working at Night” (David Dawson, 2005)

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Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)

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