An old friend who doesn't get into New York City much wrote me earlier the other day, "Maybe it's a good thing I didn't know about this Lustig film series…
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...to read my musings on the joys of disreputable cinema and why a downtown arthouse is actually not an inappropriate venue for such fare, in a piece on "William Lustig…
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Over the weekend I had a mostly wonderful time doing something I would rather not have been doing: commemorating the life and work of David Foster Wallace, who took his…
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—I miss Robert Garlock too, as it happens.—Very nice, also, the acknowledgement of Manny Farber. A Condon consideration, I'd reckon. He knows about that stuff.—The Franco/Rogen thingie was the funniest…
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Barbara Loden in her Wanda, 1970The word "maverick" has come in for a lot of ridicule in recent months, for reasons we a loathe to reiterate here, so in a…
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