This is the first of a four-part dialogue. The next installment will appear at Self Styled Siren on Friday, May 1. Alida Valli in The Paradine Case, Alfred Hitchcock, 1947.…
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This month sees the publication of two novels about both movies and movie love—or movie lust, or movie madness, it all depends on how you look at it, I guess.…
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In a week and a day, my book for Cahiers du Cinema/Phaidon, Robert De Niro: Anatomy Of An Actor, sees publication. It is only right and fitting, I am told,…
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On July 28, Phaidon will release two new books in its Cahiers du Cinema "Anatomy of an Actor" series, one of which is my own study of Robert De Niro.…
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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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From the end credits of A Girl's Best Friend, Henri Pachard, 1981 My Life In Pornography is the title of a memoir I completed in the summer of 2012. Its…
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