"David Fincher's The Social Network is Zodiac's younger, geekier, greedier brother. That means it's good, as in really good a movie for guys like myself and critics like Eric Kohn,…
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Let it never be said, etc. The Foreign Region mess, at The Daily Notebook, as usual, for your delectation and toughness.
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Above, in Stranger on Horseback, directed by Jacques Tourneur, 1954. In part because everybody else was gonna run with a shot from the end of the '56 Invasion of the…
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Clotilde Joano, Mario David, Les Bonnes Femmes, 1960 Jean Yanne, Le Boucher, 1970 Anthony Perkins, Ten Day's Wonder, 1971The droll, voluble master Chabrol died with his boots on, as it…
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1.Everybody in the pool. Let's talk about movies the way most people talk about movies: not as art objects to by studied or parsed, but as sounding boards for the…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Bowie and David Bowie and Ryuichi Sakamoto in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Nagisa Oshima, 1983.More than just a wartime parable, really just one of the most…
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