"He used to beat himself up 'til he was sick and confused/and tired and frothin' and crazy and bruised/'Til he'd be too worn out to keep being himself/now he can…
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This week, in the latest edition of Nomad Editions' Wide Screen, I review Jason Zinoman's Shock Value. Here is an excerpt, which largely concerns portions of the book that met…
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The hand of Françoise Dorleac, the vinyl of Thelonious Monk (music not featured), Cul-de-sac, Roman Polanski, 1966.
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Almost immediately (in historical time) after Robert Benayoun's citation of "authentic sadistic cinema" (in his 1960 essay "Zaroff; or, the prosperities of vice") and a good two decades before Nick…
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The Help, starring, from left, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, and Viola Davis, is pretty much as problematic as you would expect, in all the ways that you would expect, but…
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