I was obliged to revisit Otto Preminger's 1959 Anatomy of a Murder for another professional project, and boy, am I glad I was. Such a spectacular film, arguably the ultimate…
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Setting a new and alarming paradigm for having too much time on one's hands, some clod has decided, in the tradition of Fake Armond White, to do an impersonation of…
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The thrilling tale of Jeffrey Wells and the snoring guy (there he is at right; my caption would have been, "Man, SImon Pegg has really let himself go!"); advice on…
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Okay, it's "too soon," and yeah, I'm a bit tired, but, still...here's my Facebook page update as of now: "Resnais' Wild Grass is a whacked-out masterpiece with an ending worthy…
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A rare moment of reprieve, a fleeting evocation of a particular mode of lyricism, from Alain Resnais' Muriel, ou les temps d'un retour, 1963. Viewed in advance of a New…
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His Laugh-In bits mystified me more than they amused me, and hence, I was pretty much thoroughly unprepared for the sinister qualities he brought to 1973's The Long Goodbye and…
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