* About twenty minutes into my first viewing of this utterly beguiling film, observing the bizarre behavior of one of its lead characters Georges Palet (an exquisite performance by André…
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The great Alain Resnais at the New York Film Festival press conference for his latest film, the mind-blowing Wild Grass. Alternating between French and English, the maestro held forth on the…
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On the one hand, Lars von Trier's new provocation, Antichrist, often seems hardly worth the trouble of discussing. Its opening—that is, its opening once you get past the ostentatious title…
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I was obliged to revisit Otto Preminger's 1959 Anatomy of a Murder for another professional project, and boy, am I glad I was. Such a spectacular film, arguably the ultimate…
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Okay, it's "too soon," and yeah, I'm a bit tired, but, still...here's my Facebook page update as of now: "Resnais' Wild Grass is a whacked-out masterpiece with an ending worthy…
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Some might argue that films maudit don't get much more maudit than Jean Renoir's very strange 1947 The Woman on the Beach, his last Hollywood film. Joan Bennett (that's her…
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