There was a rather lengthy period when I considered Christopher Hitchens a reliably engaging and often hilarious writer, and thought he had good taste in friends and associates—Amis pere and…
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This evening's too-rare U.S. screening of Chantal Akerman's wonderful 2000 La Captive at New York's Alliance Française has occasioned some new and interesting contemplations of the film, which Akerman freely…
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How's that for fast reader response service?I post a new perspective on Amfortas' wound in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's mind-bending 1982 film of Wagner's Parsifal not just because of commenter haice's droll…
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So it looks as if John Nolte went out and spent ten bucks, or maybe just eight or so (one wants to give him credit for having the brains to…
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They had a drink in a fashionable hotel. The cafés, now that they looked at them, were worn, dirty, spiritless, there was hardly any electricity, no cleaning, few customers,and those…
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