This has been rather a big week for your humble servant in the print-only realm. First, there was that citation in The New Yorker I mentioned below (My Lovely Wife…
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A very exciting addition to the Michael Powell canon in high-definition, the BFI's wonderful recent edition of the maestro's 1937 adventure/melodrama/tragedy The Edge of the World is the subject of…
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This delightful picture-within-a-picture image is brought to you courtesy of the great Frank Tashlin and his entirely trenchant and hilarious and disturbing 1957 masterstroke Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, now…
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So. As regular readers of this blog know, as of the middle of July my 50-inch plasma display went on the fritz, and it took almost four goddamn months to…
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It's that time of year again...that time of year when a new Clint Eastwood picture comes out, and it gets a bunch of rapturous reviews from some ostensible "usual" suspects…
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Can you believe there is NOT a domestic-issue DVD of one of the absolute crown jewels of American cinema, Josef von Sternberg's 1932 Shanghai Express? No, I can scarcely credit…
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