In the first hour or so of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1970 Beware of a Holy Whore (original German title: see poster) the characters, youngish (mostly) film crew members, loll about…
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No blues: Charlotte Rampling in Lumet's The Verdict, 1982 Q: You've talked about the irony of how some critics referred to Prince of the City as "realistic" whereas you deliberately…
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The Pinkster, in his rarely seen Mark Jacobs ad. In her September 20 A/V Club piece "Should Some Movies Be Taken More Seriously Than Others," Stephanie Zacharek, doing the sort…
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Tushingham in Zhivago. Screen cap from the DVD Beaver review. As I discussed in last week's Topics, etc. at The Auteurs' Notebook, there's a lovely new Blu-ray edition of David Lean's…
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On the one hand, Lars von Trier's new provocation, Antichrist, often seems hardly worth the trouble of discussing. Its opening—that is, its opening once you get past the ostentatious title…
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