1) A couple of night before the New York Film Festival press screening of this picture, I was trying to prep a friend who would also be attending, and whose…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie and David Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima, 1983.More than just a wartime parable, really just one of the most…
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"Show business kids making movies of themselves/you know they don't give a fuck about anybody else"—Steely Dan, "Show Biz Kids," 1973 "Not an untalented man, by the way."—Christopher Lee, referring…
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My post below, inspired by a happenstance viewing of Michael Curtiz's great 1939 Dodge City, inspired some astute commentary both on and off its thread. Some readers were moved to…
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So I'm on the treadmill at the gym (six miles in a little over sixty minutes—thanks for asking), and I've got TCM on, on two monitors at that, because that's…
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