In a week and a day, my book for Cahiers du Cinema/Phaidon, Robert De Niro: Anatomy Of An Actor, sees publication. It is only right and fitting, I am told,…
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I've been pretty busy pursuing other projects and thus didn't have the temporal opportunities to see all that many of the movies screening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Cinemafest,…
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So. Here's where the gravy whose making I chronicled on Friday ended up, mostly. Turned out pretty well all told. (I did not take the picture; an appreciative guest did.)…
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On Thursday and Friday of this week, February 13 and 14, the Ziegfeld Theater in Manhattan hosts a unique event: a mini-retrospective of the work of director Martin Scorsese and…
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"The Jews, Masters of the French Cinema," reads the head of an appalling photo-mural from pre-Vichy France, an upsetting and striking image from Natan. David Cairns, the blogger behind shadowplay,…
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The Al Stewart reference (I don't care who knows it now: as a surly teen I rather liked that "Year of the Cat" song, not enough to ever do something…
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