I was rather surprised to enjoy the hell out of the new remake of The Mechanic; as I say in my review of the picture for MSN Movies, it's a…
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Peter Breck in Shock Corridor, Samuel Fuller, 1963. Now this, really, is my idea of an unimpeachable film. Love this shot, from the nightmare flooding-of-the-hallway scene. The image could conceivably…
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Richard Attenborough and Charles Mingus, All Night Long, Basil Dearden, 1962. I'd been listening a lot to Money Jungle, the wonderful record Duke Ellington made with then new-breeders Mingus and…
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I know I like to talk smack about Oscars and Oscar prognosticators, but at the end of the day I'm just another hypocrite with expensive tastes likely to subsume his…
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. The young filmmakers will express themselves in…
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40 IS a bitch. Man, don’t I know it! I think it was Martin Amis who said—and I’m paraphrasing here—that turning 40 is the most fucked up thing ever for…
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