This is my contribution to the Early Hawks blogathon. Thanks to Laszlo Szabo for inspiration. In Joseph McBride's indespensible Hawks on Hawks, its subject, Howard, reflects on the narrative function…
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It's called Night and Day, it's a stitch, it's at the New York Film Festival, and I talk a little about it at The Auteurs' Notebook, here.
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Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay, 2002 (with Samantha Morton) Where the hell IS Lynne Ramsay these days, anyway? I thought Callar was, well, miraculous, and I've been jonesing for a followup…
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Barbara Stanwyck in Anthony Mann's 1950 The Furies, a top-knotch psychological Western just recently released on disc by The Criterion Collection. It's very strong stuff but suffers a bit from…
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Let it never be said that I am the sole member of the Kenny household who gets wound up over certain movie writers/writing. Somehow, My Lovely Wife has gotten herself…
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Phillippe Loyrette recites the work of "the James Dean of French fascism" in Godard's Eloge de l'amour, 2001. The first mention of Bobert Bressilach in Richard Brody’s near-exhaustive Everything is…
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