Tokyo, or something like it, in Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972 Aside from being a bit of a dick about it on Twitter, because being a bit of a dick about…
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The color turns up with practically you-can-set-your-watch-by-it regularity in simulated lens flares throughout J.J. Abrams' Super 8, and this annoyed several of my colleagues at a recent screening, and while…
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An entire book, or at the very least some sort of monograph, could be written about the ways that various old-school Hollywood directors (and even some not entirely old-school and/or…
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With Olivia Poli in The Soft Skin, François Truffaut, 1964 In Kings and Queen, Arnaud Desplechin, 2004 The French actor, father of Philippe, grandfather of Louis, had the kind of…
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Kudos to the ever-intrepid Mr. Edroso of alicublog for steering me to a gem of both poor usage and my favorite kind of dumb, the multi-leveled. A would-be screenwriter, Barbara Nicolosi,…
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In which I wind up enjoying the crass superhero franchise picture a good deal more than the, erm, quirky struggles-of-a-white-male adolescent-in-Wales item. I wonder if I'm not developing a weird…
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