Cyd Charisse and Kirk Douglas in Two Weeks in Another Town, Vincente Minnelli, 1962 Brigitte Bardot and Jack Palance in Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 Terence Stamp in "Toby Dammit," from…
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"When I saw the film a half-decade ago, I recoiled from its restaged transaction beejs (of which there are a lot, with and without Zahedi’s agonized rationalizations) in a way…
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In his 1981 book Shock Value, John Waters wrote: After nearly twenty years of being the top fan of Faster, Pussycat, I tried to locate the star, Tura Satana, to…
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It's interesting and sometimes a little odd how people can admire a film equally, but for almost entirely different reasons, or maybe I ought to say qualities. Manohla Dargis, in…
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It is my unpleasant duty to report that Sanctum, which maybe could have been kind of fun, is, as a cinematic experience, in Orson Welles' word, "unrewarding." My review for…
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From The Passenger, with Jack Nicholson, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1975. David Hudson is assembling links to updates and tributes at The Daily Notebook.
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