A friend, who I adore dearly but whose e-mails I've come to dread, precisely because of circumstances such as this, directs me to the announcement that the suave and debonair (just…
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Michael Angarano and Jemaine Clement in Gentlemen BroncosI always enjoy seeing a critic champion a picture that's been pretty much reviled by his or her peers. It partakes of a…
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Near the end of Midnight Movies, the seminal book on cult film he co-wrote with Jonathan Rosenbaum, J. Hoberman recalls his early attempts to run a rep cinema of sorts.…
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Above, Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach, 1983: from left, Simon de La Brosse, Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet, Amanda LangletYou ever wonder why so few critics and cinephiles yoke directors John…
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The prior entry is here, and, as always, you can move backwards from there for the others. Three readers/friends were of great help in getting me access to this picture; I…
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As we work on the ninth film blurbed by the man in his "'Best Films' of 1951" piece, recently re-reprinted in the fabulous volume Farber on Film (number 8 is…
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