One of the many nice things about the new Blu-ray disc of the restoration of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is that the supplements restore to us the very first audio…
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You know, I didn't exactly have high hopes for Sucker Punch, but I wasn't expecting it to EAT MY SOUL. Good lord it is ghastly. This in spite of such…
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A Place in the Sun, with Montgomery Clift, directed by George Stevens, 1951 "Toutes les histoires," Histoire(s) du cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, 1988
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My first guest appearance on the MSN video-cast-thingie, FilmFan, hosted by the affable and delightful Sami Jarroush, features my discourse on the best and worst films of 2011 so far.…
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From Tron, Steven Lisberger, 1982. Revisiting this for the first time in quite some time, and in an entirely unaltered mental state, I was rather pleasantly surprised that the picture…
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Because I've become friendly with Paul's director Greg Mottola (who has occasionally contributed a comment to this blog), and recently enjoyed a congenial dinner with a member of this film's…
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