At the Cannes Film Festival of 2008, the closing night film was Wim Wenders' Palermo Shooting, a pictorially extravagant botch that had most critics, including the group that I had…
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Another bombshell I missed over the weekend: the revelation of an unusual affinity I have with, yup, Nikki FInke. On Saturday she averred that David Cronenberg's "enigmatic adaptation of J.G.…
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Michel Piccoli, Capri, and the Mediterranean Sea in Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 The impulse behind posting this image does not, for once, reside in this blog's obsession with Godard and…
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First, the bad news: as the above screen capture testifies, the image is soft. Sometimes softer than this. Acceptable, but soft, most likely from the source. Also, the French subtitles…
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