Honestly, guys, I was contemplating posting something about Bill (as I call him) Conrad well before Seattle-based "film critic" and all around dribbling loon N.P. Thompson pronounced that I bear…
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Above, Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong trading fours in Howard Hawks' 1948 A Song Is Born. By Robin Wood's lights, this is a "vastly inferior" remake of Hawks' own 1941…
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This is my contribution to the Early Hawks blogathon. Thanks to Laszlo Szabo for inspiration. In Joseph McBride's indespensible Hawks on Hawks, its subject, Howard, reflects on the narrative function…
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Zasu Pitts in Lazybones, Borzage, 1925Watch a sufficient number of silent films—particularly in a block—and you do get a renewed sense of how silent cinema represents an art form that's…
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Tomorrow, Zeitgeist releases a new, improved domestic DVD of Olivier Assayas' 1996 Irma Vep, an exhilarating, sometimes acid comedy about movies and moviemaking, in which Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung stars…
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I consider Truffaut's flawless 1970 The Wild Child as a parable for non-believers, over at The Auteurs' Notebook.
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