One of the many nice things about the new Blu-ray disc of the restoration of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is that the supplements restore to us the very first audio…
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For a moment I thought of titling this post "I Got Yer 'Expressive' RIGHT HERE, Pal," but, as Frank Zappa once said (I believe it was on "The Duke Regains…
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. The young filmmakers will express themselves in…
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At MSN Movies, I review the two big new releases, Michel Gondry's The Green Hornet and Ron Howard's The Dilemma. I am ambivalent, that is to say, partially-to-surprisingly-largely positive, and…
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While we're on the subject of films one sees at festivals, some of which do and some of which don't, necessarily, fall under the category, such as it is, of…
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I wasn't so moved by the latest Harmony Korine picture when I saw it at the New York Film Festival last fall that I wanted to expend the effort to…
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