Ona Munson and Gene Tierney, The Shanghai Gesture, Josef von Sternberg, 1941.
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I've bumped this delightful (if I may say so myself) piece up a bit from its original place. Because writing about movies really is more important.That corner of my sensibility…
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A friend, who I adore dearly but whose e-mails I've come to dread, precisely because of circumstances such as this, directs me to the announcement that the suave and debonair (just…
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So I'm looking at Une visite au Louvre this afternoon (for next week's Foreign Region DVD Report) and I'm trying to explain to My Lovely Wife what the deal is…
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Michael Angarano and Jemaine Clement in Gentlemen BroncosI always enjoy seeing a critic champion a picture that's been pretty much reviled by his or her peers. It partakes of a…
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Some musings on the passings of Robert Culp and John Forsythe, the ostensible cinematic qualities of the TV-star driven Date Night, and the anticipation for HBO and David Simons' new…
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