The now semi-retired film critic Nathan Lee, when writing at his most unfettered, is one part connoisseur, one part provocateur, one part contrarian, and three parts...well, probably best not to…
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Sometimes it's either too hard to resist, or all too called-for. The snark, I mean. An Oscar prognosticator earns a pastiche, and at the same time, I laud a new…
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So I had been contemplating checking out some cinema that would enhance my overall aesthetic well-being and extend my appreciation of art's human dimensions, and stuff, but there was this…
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Just one of the many trenchant, multi-layered, altogether sublime images from the divine Max Ophuls' 1955 Lola Montes, an oft-mutilated and misrepresented masterpiece that's soon to come in a beautifully…
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It hurts, I gotta tell ya. The actual nominations contain some real interesting choices. Who knew that District 9 would be the wild card entry in the Best Picture tenplex?…
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The sublime Eric is still on my mind, and some other things besides, so I contemplate Rohmer's first feature, a picture about a doppelganger of mine, 1959's Le signe du…
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