Debra Paget in The Tiger of Eschnapur, part one of Fritz Lang's Indian Tomb epic, 1959 Perhaps, or perhaps not, you have heard of Blue, a 2014 album by the…
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"and every thang is keeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwllll....ooh lord!..." Back in 1985, when I was beginning my “career” as a relatively feisty and entirely earnest rock critic, I began dating a woman of…
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Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen has a book out, a collection of essays and one diary entitled Eminent Hipsters. It's real good. The topics of the essays range from the…
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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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Henriette Gérard, Vampyr, Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932 Henrik Gawkowski, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, 1985
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In Robin Wood's 1981 introduction to his seminal study of Howard Hawks, Wood cites "an extreme and habitual self-consciousness" as a characteristic of modern art, one to which he has…
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