Believe it or not—and I know you want to believe it, really I do—I'm not too often prone to professional jealousy. My dislikes and resentments, and I admit, they are…
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If you have to ask what film, you may be at the wrong blog. This screen cap is ripped directly from the standard-def disc of the new Criterion transfer; both…
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With a lot of pictures that have storied and complicated production backstories, you can see it on the screen (and that's the only time it ought to matter, I suppose).…
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Good news...not that it's what you'd call unexpected: the new Second Run DVD of Frantisek Vlacil's magnificent The Valley of the Bees is as spiffy and beautifully produced as pretty…
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Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, which apparently proved the consensus-building screwball comedy hit of the last Sundance Film Festival, screens as part of the Tribeca…
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I had the privilege and pleasure over the weekend of revisiting this, a Hitchcock film to which one can justifiably apply the three "U"s of cinephilia: underseen, underrated, underappreciated. This…
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