By the time he's become convinced that the world he inhabits is in fact just a computer simulation of reality, stressed-out tech maestro Fred Stiller (seen above in "action" mode)…
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A typically quietly-charged image from Robert Kramer's fascinating Route One/USA, a 1989 quasi-doc the expat filmmaker made on a visit to the States beginning in late '87. The former radical…
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Shorter Jessica Grose: These new-fangled "mumblecore" movies are artistically worthwhile solely because they contain sex scenes that no one in a million years would ever even conceive of masturbating to.
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Great news that I ought to have blogged about earlier: the visionary theater manager Nelson Page and his sound and vision ace Pete Apruzzese are, after a brief hiatus, back…
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In commemoration of the opening today of a remake of Clash of the Titans, I contribute a modest history of giant f**king scorpions in cinema to The Auteurs' Notebook, for…
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