"Even by director Robert Bresson’s exacting, idiosyncratic standards, his 1974 Lancelot du Lac is a peculiar film," I write over at The Auteurs' Notebook. The original poster for the film…
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Rene Clair’s “American period is generally blamed for his decline,” Andrew Sarris notes in The American Cinema, before averring that said decline began before he “left Paris for Hollywood’s lucre.”…
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Today, I ponder how strange the change from major to minor, as I grapple with a "minor" work of Jacques Rivette, 1984's L'Amour par la terre (Love on the Ground).…
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When Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light hit theaters in April, it gave movie critics, myself included, a chance to play at being rock critics, without the cut in pay. Everybody…
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One indoor pool, four skintight swimsuits, and five male swimming students—these, aside from the titular instructor, are the simple ingredients that make up this potent 2007 erotic epic spotlighting the…
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My former interlocuter and good friend Aaron Aradillas has started a blog-radio show called "Back By Midnight," and I am honored to be one of his first guests. He invited…
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