Water and script pages, Here's To The Future, Gina Telaroli, 2014 The young filmmaker Gina Telaroli has a new picture premiering this upcoming Saturday, December 13, at the Migrating Forms…
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(Note: this post gives away a number of plot points to both Birdman and Whiplash, so if you're still not conversant with those films and are intent on avoiding "spoilers,"…
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"and every thang is keeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwllll....ooh lord!..." Back in 1985, when I was beginning my “career” as a relatively feisty and entirely earnest rock critic, I began dating a woman of…
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Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice opens with an epigraph: "Under the paving stones, the beach!" which the author designates as "Grafitto, Paris, May 1968." The sentiment is frequently credited…
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Yes, I do want fries with that: Carla Juri and Some Dude™ in Wetlands This week for RogerEbert.com I review two very different films with Strong But Troubled Young Female…
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Joseph Cotten in Too Much Johnson, shot in 1938 “Much of the pre-Second World War character of Chicago and New York hardly exists anymore. Everybody builds these mirror boxes, and…
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