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CAN ANYONE KEEP UP WITH TAKASHI MIIKE?

If the first reviews are anything to go by, Christopher Nolan’s Inception is an event to look forward to. While we anticipate next week’s opening, now’s a perfect time to catch up with A Decade with Takashi Miike, a series we’ve been running for the past few months now on the iconoclast’s wildly diverse work in the 2000s.

SALLY POTTER IN NEW YORK, YOU IN KARLOVY VARY

This week sees the opening of a Sally Potter retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, but even if you’re not in New York, you can watch right now, and on through July 21 — for free — her 1970 short, Play. Meantime, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival is on through Saturday. Be sure to sample their program — again, for free — right here.

IF YOU ONLY SEE ONE MOVIE THIS WEEK

Jacques Rivette’s Around a Small Mountain “seems infinitely open,” wrote Daniel Kasman last fall, “taking place in the farthest reaches from the real world.  Out in the light of nature… this perennially grim filmmaker — who masks the dark of the world with the play of cinema — has made a movie that finally seems to remove and nearly efface itself from worldly concerns, eulogizing in a most beautiful way simply the way people move through, and around, the play of life.”

EYE CANDY

Photographers Raymond Cauchetier and Jeanloup Sieff snap 20th century giants. Davids Cronenberg and Lynch on Letterman in the early 90s. Happy 100, Gloria Stuart.

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