Lori Williams in Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat...Kill! Kill!, 1965 A couple of my esteemed colleagues have expressed slightly guarded enthusiasm over the extremely shaky prospect that Quentin Tarantino will direct…
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I saw Isabel Coixet's Elegy, a Nicholas-Meyer-scripted adaptation of Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal, several months ago, and was more than a little impressed with it in spite…
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Today, I ponder how strange the change from major to minor, as I grapple with a "minor" work of Jacques Rivette, 1984's L'Amour par la terre (Love on the Ground).…
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When Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light hit theaters in April, it gave movie critics, myself included, a chance to play at being rock critics, without the cut in pay. Everybody…
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Frequent commenter Dan, in the comments to the below post, asks what I "make of" a very long post on a horror movie fan message board. It is titled "FINDING…
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The old woman calls the shadow revels to an end...; Vampyr ...was on November 4, 1980. Election day of that year. I had come into Manhattan from New Jersey to…
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