These news stories about Spielberg at the reopening of the damaged-by-fire Universal backlot, and pictures of him on the studio tour bus, remind me of a moderately funny story. A…
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Who am I talking about? Who but Robot Maria, the evil cyber-alchemical doppelganger of sweet organic Maria in Fritz Lang's 1927 Metropolis. No joke. In the above shot Robot Maria's letting…
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Because he is, after all, a mass media big deal to this day, film critic Roger Ebert is comfortable weighing in on other topics besides film, most often politics. I've…
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A ballsy Georges Marchal gives his greetings to the local authorities in Death in the Garden, a 1956 Luis Buñuel oddity from right before his second great period. Why oddity?…
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Just got the fabulous Sony William Castle Film Collection, not a minute too soon for my crummy mood. Will be weighing in on it in some detail soon enough, but…
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Anthony Harvey, editor of Stanley Kubrick's still great—and still pretty damn funny—Dr. Strangelove, recalls screening the version of the film that still had the pie-fight ending on one very fateful…
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