In his review at DVD Beaver, Gary Tooze notes that the spine number of the Criterion box set containing three Roberto Rossellini masterpieces is 500, an appropriately auspicious number for…
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The ever-great Jean Simmons, at her most disturbingly beautiful in Preminger's perverse thriller Angel Face, 1952. The actress, a paragon of refinement and grace, died yesterday, age 80.
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So, Mountain's classic of cowbell rock Mississippi Queen popped up on the iPod last night, as it will, and once again I was reminded that while I comprehend what the…
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Reading Peter Biskind's Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America was, for me, a largely enervating experience. Yes, I know; the book is reputed to be a feast of dish, full…
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My friend and sometime counselor The Siren chided me, ever so gently, on the grisly image I have below, trumpeting my write-up of early Scorsese shorts and docs. So as…
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