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Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of "a memoir of dangerous moviegoing" called Through a Screen Darkly, and two fantasy novels – Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight. He blogs at LookingCloser.org. Each month he writes about foreign, independent, and overlooked movies at Christianity Today and Image. He received the 2007 Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival. Favorite filmmakers: Kieslowski, Malick, PT Anderson, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Miyazaki, Brothers Dardennes & Coen, Brad Bird & Andrew Stanton. He's the contributing editor for Seattle Pacific University's award-winning Response magazine. When he's not at SPU, or Seattle's $3-ticket arthouse theater (the Crest), he's probably lurking in Shoreline coffee shops. Also on Twitter (jeff_overstreet) and Facebook.

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  Everything I do, I do it for you…

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• Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom, Excerpt 11: The Dardenne Brothers

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  Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom, Excerpt 10: Bresson

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  If Oscar Wilde had been a film critic…

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• Panahi is alive and out of prison. But free?

  5/27/10 • (0)

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  Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom – Excerpt 9: Bresson

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• “A vast potential…”

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  Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom – Excerpt 8: Greenaway

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• Instructors who taught in French high schools respond to The Class

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  The Secret in Their Eyes (Campanella, 2009)

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• What do Patrice Leconte and U2 have in common?

  4/26/10 • (0)

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  A problem of cuteness.

  4/19/10 • (7)

• What filmmakers does David Lynch love?

  4/14/10 • (1)

• British filmmaker missing in Pakistan

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  Truth-teller in trouble

  4/05/10 • (0)

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  Plastic Bag (Bahrani, 2010)

  3/25/10 • (5)

• Chronicle of Higher Education on “The Death of Film Criticism”

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  Two Lovers (Gray, 2009)

  2/27/10 • (1)

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  Favorite Scenes of 2009 – Part Three

  1/11/10 • (2)

• Celebrate Ron Reed’s birthday: What’s your favorite stage-to-screen adaptation?

  1/11/10 • (20)

• David Brooks on Avatar‘s familiar falsity

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  Filmwell’s Favorite Scenes of 2009 – Part Two

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  Filmwell’s Favorite Scenes of 2009 – Part One

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  Séraphine (Provost, 2009)

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• Michael Haneke in Film Comment

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  Hoop Dreams: The story behind the Oscar snub.

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  Wings of Desire (Wenders, 2009) – Criterion Takes Angels to New Heights

  11/03/09 • (0)

• Long-lost Alfred Hitchcock interview discovered

  10/16/09 • (0)

• The Onion drops the jokes: Publishes the hard truth on “Couples Retreat”

  10/16/09 • (0)

• Bong Joon-ho will give us the chills.

  10/13/09 • (1)