In my Daily Notebook musings on Clint Eastwood, I tell this (hopefully) amusing anecdote: "...around spring 1981, standing outside Cinema Village, waiting to go into a rep screening ofThe Shining and The…
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I am alerted to the fact that the Film Society of Lincoln Center's website has put up a selected blogroll, with commentary, on "The Top Film Criticism Sites," and that…
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The occasion of a major New York-based retrospective gives me the pretext in which to ponder the question as to whether certain critics, myself included if I may, give Mr.…
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UPDATE: I've revised this post a little since first putting it up, after an astute friend and fellow critic pointed out that, well, yes, my original kicker could be construed…
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Vintage analog audio equipment and smoking Katia Christine are two of the more salient attractions of The Designated Killer, a shameless 1971 Italian appropriation of Hitchcock (and Highsmith's) Strangers on…
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Yeesh. First Harvey Pekar goes, and now comes news that Tuli Kupferberg, the writer and poet and anarchist and guiding spirit of The Fugs and so many other vital artistic…
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