So...I'm working on two very different, and relatively ambitious posts. I intend to finish both soon, but I'm a little torn (for various reasons having little to do with competing…
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Just a quick note to thank everybody who came out last night for the rare screening of Mission To Moscow at BAM, which was followed by a discussion featuring screening organizers…
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Above, Rohmer's Pauline at the Beach, 1983: from left, Simon de La Brosse, Frank Zappa, Don Van Vliet, Amanda LangletYou ever wonder why so few critics and cinephiles yoke directors John…
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Bob Hope catches up on his reading in The Iron Petticoat, a very peculiar 1956 picture in which Hope plays an Army guy who's trying to convert a defecting Russian…
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"My films, you say, are literary: The things I say could be said in a novel. Yes, but what do I say? My characters' discourse is not necessarily my film's…
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After a brief lapse, the Auteurs' column Topics/Questions/Exercises is back, and that's what's up. I use the opportunity to ruminate a bit more on the politics of, and political reaction…
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