In the fear that the foul mood in which I first saw Where The Wild Things Are unduly colored my perception of the film, and in the spirit of fair…
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Nobody refers to 1951 as an annus mirabilis for Hollywood film, world cinema, or anything else for that matter. Which isn't to say that the year didn't see the release…
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So last night My Lovely Wife and I watched The Proposal, for what they used to call shits and giggles, and also in the inquisitive "how bad can it be,…
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Adam Arkin and Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man. Photo: Wilson Webb. Courtesy of Focus Features. This notion that Joel and Ethan Coen consider themselves superior to the characters they…
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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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I can't honestly say if this is more of a personal quirk than a reflection on genuine critical principle, but one thing that drives me right up a wall is…
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