Holy crap, Variety canned Todd McCarthy. Boy, I'm glad I didn't spring for a subscription after they put up the pay wall. Not that McCarthy was the only reason to…
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Jeepers creepers. My consideration of the in-progress Film Comments Selects series, featuring Phillipe Grandrieux's Un Lac (that's its costar Alexei Solonchev in the still above), among a good many other…
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Having established that at one point in his career Andrew Sarris did indeed proclaim Max Ophuls' 1955 Lola Montes "the greatest film of all time," I now opt to ignore…
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Taking off from my brief appreciation of the late Arnold Stang back in December, my friend Joseph Failla considers the character actor's other claims to immortality."It's been a rough couple…
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How do you like that for a use of negative space, huh? That's Mr. Vince Edwards, a watch, and a tie, in Murder By Contract, another great one in the below-cited…
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