Robert Montgomery in They Were Expendable, John Ford, 1945. Writing of the movie's lukewarm critical and box office reception in his indispensible new book Five Came Back, Mark Harris observes,…
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No blues: Charlotte Rampling in Lumet's The Verdict, 1982 Q: You've talked about the irony of how some critics referred to Prince of the City as "realistic" whereas you deliberately…
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Kim Novak in Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1957 In the still-vital book Hitchcock/Truffaut, made up mostly (and in the first edition, pretty much entirely) of interviews between the…
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While I mull over whether to compose and post an essay titled "The Woody Allen Plank" (it's not likely, I gotta say), I ask you to check out the movie…
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Godard in Eric Rohmer's Le Signe du Lion, 1959, when he was about 30. "The public is neither stupid nor intelligent. No one knows what it is. Sometimes it surprises,…
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Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen has a book out, a collection of essays and one diary entitled Eminent Hipsters. It's real good. The topics of the essays range from the…
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