Almost a year ago over at The Auteurs' Notebook, I wrote about the deplorable state of affairs concerning the DVD incarnation of John Ford's beautiful, unusual 1950 film Wagon Master.…
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This is my contribution to the Brian DePalma Blogathon, hosted by Cinema Viewfinder, where it is cross-posted. Thanks to Tony Dayoub for encouragement. In Brian DePalma's giddy, absurdist, radical early…
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Charley Chase oblivious in Hello, Baby!, Leo McCarey, 1925. I wish I had more time to watch Charley Chase shorts. Maybe it's just a matter of discipline and time management.…
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It might surprise some that an artist of Alain Robbe-Grillet's intellectual prestige is having his final film, 2006's Gradiva (C'est Gradiva qui vous appelle) presented on U.S. home video by…
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No, seriously, for it is indeed Marlene Jobert... ...at the end of Maurice Pialat's staggering Nous ne viellirons pas ensemble (We won't grow old together), which I examine in some…
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I take a look at the great Nicholas Ray/Humphrey Bogart/Gloria Grahame collaboration In A Lonely Place, from a spirituous perspective, over at The Auteurs'. A great new 35 mm print…
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