I normally don't re-post anonymous e-mails from folks who are displeased with my reviewing style, but this piece, received this morning (December 27, day after Boxing Day!), had an interesting,…
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Above, a couple of youngsters of my acquaintance, ages four and seven, a few minutes prior to the November, 20th 2 p.m. SAG screening of Martin Scorsese's Hugo, at New York's…
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In all this excitement I nearly forgot that, for a feature for the Nomad "vertical" Wide Screen, I interviewed Brian Kellow, the author of the biography Pauline Kael: A Life…
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You will search Kael’s collected work in vain for a theory, a system, or even a consistent set of principles.—A.O. Scott, “Mad About Her: Pauline Kael, Loved and Loathed”…
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Come on, it's a pretty funny albeit somewhat self-aggrandizing name-that-tune headline. Good Christ am I a tub in that shot. (Which shot also features, from left, non-tubs Jackson Ning and…
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"Hey, Lou, you got anything to drink?" "No...You don't know what you're doing, you haven't done any research. You make it good for the rest of us by taking the…
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