From left: Jonathan Winters, Jimmy Durante, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Mickey Rooney, and Buddy Hackett. Caesar is the most recent victim of the Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World curse; will…
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Godard in Eric Rohmer's Le Signe du Lion, 1959, when he was about 30. "The public is neither stupid nor intelligent. No one knows what it is. Sometimes it surprises,…
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"He strums the wire with his fingers." From The Counselor, Ridley Scott, 2013 Ridley Scott's The Counselor, from an original script by Cormac McCarthy, inspired quite a bit of critical…
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R: Did you ever read Nietzsche L: Ha Ha Ha R: Legs, listen to me, he said that anything that makes you laugh, anything that's funny, indicates an emotion that's…
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Seconds was not a hit when it was first released in the fall of 1966, but I recall interest in the movie being kind of high in my household at…
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Mae Marsh loses focus near the end of Intolerance (n.b., this screen capture is not from the newly restored Cohen version). If you have not seen D.W. Griffith's Intolerance since…
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