For context, see here. Farber: "Sam Fuller's jagged, suspenseful, off-beat variant of the Mauldin cartoon, expanded into a full-length Korean battle movie without benefit of the usual newsreel clips. Funny,…
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Even in this online age, and its forgiveness of self-indulgence being such as it is, I feel a little sheepish talking about Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest, whose New York…
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A nice fellow at Salon was kind enough to include me in a loose survey of filmmakers and film writers who were asked to name their favorite Coen brothers film.…
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At the Cannes Film Festival of 2008, the closing night film was Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting, a pictorially extravagant botch that had most critics, including the group that I had…
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This is the end of a thoroughly wonderful shot in Jacques Rivette's thoroughly spectacular film on Joan of Arc, but really, I haven't ruined it for you if you haven't…
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