1) At Time, Mary Pols writes on a Twitter phenom worth writing about, the campaign to bring Kenneth Lonergan's excellent Margaret (which I my own self wrote about here) to…
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For Bill Ryan. One of my greatest regrets, both personal and professional, is that I didn't schedule my phone interview with Donald E. Westlake a few days earlier. The occasion…
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As good as Brad Pitt is in Tree of Life, and as good as he's reputed to be in Moneyball (a film I remain in zero hurry to see), I…
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One of the best film books of the year is also one of the most unusual. Conversations With Clint, edited by Kevin Avery, presents the "lost interviews" conducted by the…
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Twiggy in The Boy Friend, Russell, 1971 Along with Hitchcock, Welles, Vigo, Buñuel and Godard, Russell was one of the first directors I was aware of as such, because, really…
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Artificial Intelligence band practice, Ultra Sound studios, Manhattan, November 26, 2011
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