...as a brunette, yet. By 1967 the former child actress had not yet achieved the full sex-kitten effect that would so transfix Charles Bronson in 1969's Twinky, and be so…
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Here's something you don't see every day—a shot from the point of view of a floor on which a dead man sprawls. The departed is George Fellsinger (Rory Mallinson), and…
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The "heavenly tribunal" meets the operating room; A Matter of Life and Death, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946 For quite a few of the people who revere it, Michael…
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Filmmaker Alexandre Philippe, who in 2004 made Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water, an engaging doc about a particular subset of Star Trek fans, is turning his attention from where…
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James Gray's very fine Two Lovers opens in New York and Los Angeles theaters tomorrow. I wrote the following about it back when I saw it at Cannes last May. "...most…
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Three views: Lincoln the Visionary—signing into law that act that will build a trans-continental raildroad, despite the protests of those arguing that such a further expense cannot by borne in…
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