So I'm on the treadmill at the gym (six miles in a little over sixty minutes—thanks for asking), and I've got TCM on, on two monitors at that, because that's…
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From Tokyo Godfathers, 2004I am late in noting the great filmmaker's passing because his death came as such a bolt-from-the-blue shock; I had every complacent expectation that he would continue…
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"...carried away by his re-creation of the past..." From von Sternberg's The Last Command Surrender (1927) represents the only American appearance of the famous Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine (né Mozzhukin,…
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Who was the last completely unself-conscious American exploitation filmmaker who was any good? As in, who turned out to be a genuine artist but couldn't really be said to have…
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Boris Karloff, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Charles Brabin, 1942 Bernard Verley, Love in the Afternoon, Eric Rohmer, 1972The occasion of the ongoing and entirely splendid Film Society of Lincoln…
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