This morning indieWIRE posted a report on the official announcements, thus far, concerning the Cannes FIlm Festival lineup this year. Some observations from where I sit:* At the moment, despite…
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"Big Hollywood columnist Kurt Schlicter trashed me today for saying on one hand that I'd be impressed and delighted if authors Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens could somehow arrest Pope Benedict for crimes against humanity during a…
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The exceptionally untimely death of Alex Chilton, one of the most dynamic talents of American popular music, period, got me thinking and listening hard. While I'm having trouble digging up…
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...to my pal Stephanie Zacherek, who's just been announced as the lead critic for Movieline, the bold web resuscitation of the print organ. While we've had our substantive differences of…
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As promised, today's Foreign Region DVD Report attempts to convey all of the pulse-pounding, 3-D, 7.1-channel-DTS sound, IMAX excitement of...oh, wait, no. Three films by Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub,…
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