...and a friendly reminder that today is the opening day of the third film-preservation-benefitting For The Love Of Film Blogathon hosted by the two distinguished ladies of cinema The Self Styled…
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Honest to God, at no point during Think Like A Man did this man think "How could hell be any worse?" or any such thing. That's kind of the surprise…
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1) While nobody in his or her right mind would characterize Whit Stillman as a "realist" or a maker of realistic films, I would still insist, allowing for the limitations…
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It was a mere 17 months or so ago that I waxed all delirious over at MUBI, or The Auteur's Notebook as it was called then, about what a crime…
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I guess I'm in a pretty good mood this week, as I didn't have such a bad time at two of the big-and-not-particularly-intellectually-challenging motion pictures opening this week, and thus…
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Female Vampire, Jess Franco, 1973 The Spanish actress took her film alias from a big-band singer her mentor, director Jess Franco, particularly admired. She outlived her namesake by about two…
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