You can learn a lot from reading any given comments thread over at Dave Kehr's website. Granted, the place is sometimes a nesting space for overly-vigorous haters of the Coen…
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A peculiarly transportive cinematic experience that was "pure torture" for at least one member of its ostensible target audience: ladies and gentlemen, Sally Potter's The Gold Diggers, her knottily beautiful…
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Nicholas Ray and James Mason,Bigger Than Life, Ray, 1956 Two films of 1956 seem to turn one of the predominant genres of the Eisenhower era on its head. In certain…
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Godard said something like that, right? Anyway, above is bombshell Arlene Dahl taking aim in the at least mildly demented Slightly Scarlet, one of seven films collected in an unusual and…
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A batch of new Criterion Blu-rays came my way as the weekend approached, and they were all terribly exciting. I was glad that Criterion got to do the Blu of…
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...but if you're the only woman on a volcanic island inhabited by Japanese soldiers who won't believe that World War II is over, you're certainly special. Above is Akemi Negishi…
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