Kirk and Kirk On May 25th I had the honor of presenting, at the great NY moviehouse The Metrograph, Elia Kazan's 1969 The Arrangement. These are the program notes for…
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Sondra Locke in A Reflection Of Fear, 1972, William A. Fraker. Back in June, venerable American cinema practitioner and semi-certified auteur Clint Eastwood, a still-formidable filmmaker but increasingly grizzled (almost…
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Don't try this at home: Charles Boyer, Jennifer Jones, and Philip Morris, Cluny Brown, Ernst Lubitsch, 1946 Last evening, near the end of Film Twitter’s “We Need To Talk About…
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"As if she could smell him..." M. Paradine (Alida Valli) senses the presence of Latour (Louis Jourdan) Dear Farran, Well thank you for sending me a nice slow Vertigo…
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Dear Professional Film Critic, does the movie American Sniper really “glorify a killer?” Well, gosh, you put it that way, it sounds pretty terrible. But some outlets and individuals are…
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Water and script pages, Here's To The Future, Gina Telaroli, 2014 The young filmmaker Gina Telaroli has a new picture premiering this upcoming Saturday, December 13, at the Migrating Forms…
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