I The journalist-turned-screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has, either in spite or because of his standing as something of a self-important clod, made several significant contributions to the lexicon of show business.…
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Can't be repeated enough. The whole thing, in the essay " 'A Power Of Facing Unpleasant Facts' " in the collection Thank God For The Atom Bomb, is well worth…
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"The Little Colonel" (Henry B. Walthall) performs a stupid and futile but nevertheless rousing gesture in Griffith's film. In his December 2012 interview with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Quentin Tarantino…
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Adolf Hitler in Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will), Leni Riefenstahl, 1934. "Triumph of the Will and Olympia are undoubtedly superb films (they may be the two greatest documentaries…
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There's nothing to win bythis sort of an outcryOh yeah we all know whyCuz the world a person lives inis his brain. Well mine just gives in... —Richard Hell, "Who…
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My friend and much-missed former neighbor Andrew Grant called my attention today to a post at the blog Kinoslang by Ted Fendt, concerning a 1998 short by Jean-Luc Godard entitled…
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