Complaining that the Coen Brothers can be a little too smart-alecky is like bitching that de Sica was excessively humanistic: more than a little obvious, and completely beside the point.…
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Over at The Auteur's Notebook, I look at Pier Paolo Pasolini's infamous Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom and conclude that if it works at all, it's as a…
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Checking out the recently issued Blu-ray disc of Clint Eastwood's 1977 The Gauntlet (a nice disc, by the way, but nothing to write home about; also note that all the…
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To start with a random thought: Warner Home Video's new DVDs of How The West Was Won can be taken as proof that there are more, or louder, Cinerama fans…
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Around the midpoint of Jean Negulsco's 1948 Road House (just given an exemplary DVD release by Fox), Ida Lupino's Lily Stevens, a saloon singer of such affectlessness of voice as…
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Turns out I'm one of those unhip sobersides who can't quite get with Tropic Thunder. But I think my reasons are valid. Here are the first few grafs of my…
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