Any of you out there ever read Miles Davis' autobiography, co-written with the incredibly patient and scrupulous poet Quincey Troupe? If you have, then you know that there's no greater…
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I take a look at the great Nicholas Ray/Humphrey Bogart/Gloria Grahame collaboration In A Lonely Place, from a spirituous perspective, over at The Auteurs'. A great new 35 mm print…
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One of the strongest and most intriguing sub-themes of Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes is of the creative process in performing arts being not just hugely collaborative, but exceptionally...manly.…
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"The best French writer is Robbe-Grillet whom we met in Paris..."—VN, letter to Edmund Wilson, January 19, 1960"There is no question, as we have seen, of establishing a theory, a…
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...for reasons inaccessible to my conscious mind (maybe I was spurred on by Millie Perkins telling me in an interview that she was a fan of Jean Cocteau, or maybe,…
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Filling the frame with multiple signifiers, then filling it with a single signifier, then going back to the multiples, leaving the viewer to connect certain dots...this sort of thing is…
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