...at The Auteurs'. In this week's Topics/Questions/Exercises, I arrive at the staggering conclusion that interesting directors make interesting films. I also stick up a little more for You-Know-Which Island and deplore…
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Think there's nothing new left to say about Avatar? Think again. The distinguished Jim Emerson and I go at the blockbuster one more time before the Oscars, at MSN Movies.…
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Toby Talbot, wife of New York film and New Yorker Film legend Dan Talbot (seen above with an appreciator), has written a really wonderful, entertaining book about The New Yorker…
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This dude playing the "ghost" of Elvis Preseley in Jim Jarmusch's 1989's Mystery Train? Paula Jones' husband, apparently. Steve Jones. Or, as he's credited in the film, Stephen. I learned this…
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Inspired by Jeff Bridges' Best Actor Oscar nom for playing a bad drunk in Crazy Heart, I was asked to ruminate on portrayals of drunks and addicts that have found…
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Near the end of Midnight Movies, the seminal book on cult film he co-wrote with Jonathan Rosenbaum, J. Hoberman recalls his early attempts to run a rep cinema of sorts.…
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