J. Hoberman ended his excellent and largely admiring review of Geoff Dyer's new book, a lengthy, discursive, highly personal exploration/exegesis of and or "riff" on Andrei Tarkovsky's 1978 film Stalker…
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At the Institute for Noetic Science, October 29, 2011. I was out there for a memorial celebration for my friend Dr. Lee Lipsenthal, who I wrote about a little here.…
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Robert Ryan, Woman on the Beach, Jean Renoir, 1947 In the absence of much original blog content (busy, busy week, filled with outside concerns), I thought I'd commend you to…
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Almost immediately (in historical time) after Robert Benayoun's citation of "authentic sadistic cinema" (in his 1960 essay "Zaroff; or, the prosperities of vice") and a good two decades before Nick…
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Did I ever tell you guys about the first screenplay I ever wrote, or, rather, co-wrote? No, I didn't think so. Among other things, I figured that doing so might…
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Reading all the ohmigodhesaidhesympathizedwithHitler staggering-to-the-fainting couch over today's big Cannes Film Festival press conference "gaffe," I recall, not so fondly (I had to cancel a trip to Moscow on account of it—long…
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