Gone very much too soon. With Jean-Pierre Leaud, Antoine and Colette, François Truffaut, 1962 Celine and Julie Go Boating, Jacques Rivette, 1974 The Phantom of Liberty, Luis Buñuel, 1974
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Q: What's the difference between Elvis Mitchell and Roger Kimball? A: There's more than one. But a particularly salient one, though, it seems, is that when Elvis Mitchell makes a…
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Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, some extras, and various Feelies (visible: Dave Weckerman, Stanley Demeski, the top of Bill Million's hair) in Something Wild, Jonathan Demme, 1986. As much as I…
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My editor at MSN Movies believes my review of African Cats is comedy gold; what say you, gentle readers? There are wisecracks and, hopefully, more, in my reviews of Water…
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From Yeelen (Brightness), Souleymane Cissé, 1987 On Friday, April 29 at 4 p.m. I will have the honor of moderating a discussion between the great Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé and…
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