It's that time of year again...that time of year when a new Clint Eastwood picture comes out, and it gets a bunch of rapturous reviews from some ostensible "usual" suspects…
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The film producer Ted Hope is a thoroughly resourceful and brilliant guy whose opinions on where film, specifically "independent" film, is, and where it should be going, I find to…
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"It's not a movie that's very generous to its audience," My Lovely Wife observed when we discussed Olivier Assayas' 2002 film demonlover after it screened at the BAM Cinematek last…
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Can you believe there is NOT a domestic-issue DVD of one of the absolute crown jewels of American cinema, Josef von Sternberg's 1932 Shanghai Express? No, I can scarcely credit…
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Ansiket (The Magician), Ingmar Bergman, 1958 La maschera del demonio (The Mask of Satan/Black Sunday), Mario Bava, 1960
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I gather you've already heard, and have also seen or heard dozens of invocations of speaking jive, and being "hard on the Beaver" by now. So of course I have…
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