For context, see here. Farber: "Sam Fuller's jagged, suspenseful, off-beat variant of the Mauldin cartoon, expanded into a full-length Korean battle movie without benefit of the usual newsreel clips. Funny,…
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Writing about it from the New York Film Festival last year, I despaired of Hong Sang-soo's hilarious ode to expat sexual frustration Night and Day ever seeing "any kind of…
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Even in this online age, and its forgiveness of self-indulgence being such as it is, I feel a little sheepish talking about Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest, whose New York…
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In the fear that the foul mood in which I first saw Where The Wild Things Are unduly colored my perception of the film, and in the spirit of fair…
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Nobody refers to 1951 as an annus mirabilis for Hollywood film, world cinema, or anything else for that matter. Which isn't to say that the year didn't see the release…
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