"Childhood Doll Hating In Female Coming-Of-Age Films Of The Late '50s-Early '60s" Jean Seberg in Bonjour Tristesse, Otto Preminger, 1958 Natalie Wood in Splendor In The Grass, Elia Kazan, 1961
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I did not participate in today's CriticWire poll about "Inappropriate Viewing" (an entire generation of Feisty Film Writers traumatized by James Cameron, apparently—but man, is Richard Brody's entry a doozy!)…
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1961. Directed by Elia Kazan. Director of Photography, Boris Kaufman. Actors, in order of appearance: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Zohra Lampert.
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Remember this guy? In the early spring of 2001 I got a call from Tom Bissell, who was then an editor at Henry Holt. I had been referred to Tom…
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I think both Alexei German's Hard To Be A God (above) and Abderrahamane Sisako's Timbuktu are masterpieces, but they're also films that demonstrate the necessary elasticity of the possibly overused term.…
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