There will be no Foreign Region DVD Report at The Daily Notebook today. Nor will there be a Topics column at The Daily Notebook at the end of the week.…
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The writer/director and now only-sometime actor Woody Allen brought his new film, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, to Cannes last week. I'm not there, so I didn't see…
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I see that there's quite a bit of consternation, and now what they call "debate," over a rather vile collection of words assembled by one Ramin Setoodeh for Newsweek. Allow…
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Like a lot of other critics, I'm a big admirer of Maren Ade's film Everyone Else. (Above is a still from a particularly, um, fraught scene in the picture; that's…
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Songs: "Passport," "Dance Of The Just Plain Folks," "Hot Stuff," "Tears Before Bedtime," "Tango Whiskyman," "Lazy Old Sun," "Moten Swing," "Australians In…
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Some readers may recall my recent recollections, apropos a new Warner Archive DVD of Michael Curtiz's Al-Jolson-starring Mammy, of my teen years in Dumont, New Jersey, where one of my…
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