I sound the horn this morning for the upcoming Film Preservation Blogathon over at my Topics/Questions/Exercises berth at The Auteurs' Notebook. I've gotta figure out just what to do for…
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Because he is, after all, a mass media big deal to this day, film critic Roger Ebert is comfortable weighing in on other topics besides film, most often politics. I've…
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In celebration of the tri-state area's snow day yesterday, I cobbled together a classic Universal horror double feature while My Lovely Wife took an afternoon work-release nap. I started with…
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Contempt Hey, remember—when was it, last year?— when Criterion announced a Blu-ray of Kurosawa's Ran, and everyone who had a Blu-ray player and wasn't a putz who thought the format was…
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Good gosh, how I really wanted to love the new British Blu-ray of Dario Argento's Suspiria, and watch it over and over and over again all the live-long day. But…
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The horrific yet supremely satisfying finale to Chuck Jones' brutally brilliant 1951 tale of animal exploitation, Chow Hound. One of the toughest cartoons ever, really. The Eisenhower era was an…
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