My pal Tony Dayoub is hosting a Brian DePalma blog-a-thon over at his terrific site Cinema Viewfinder. This is good news for film bloggers, such as myself, who aren't getting to…
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Charley Chase oblivious in Hello, Baby!, Leo McCarey, 1925. I wish I had more time to watch Charley Chase shorts. Maybe it's just a matter of discipline and time management.…
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Overheard from inside my "local" earlier in the day:"Do you have the iPod there? It's probably about time to put it on.""Yeah, I've got it. What's the playlist for this…
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When he was about to be taken to his first movie he asked his mother what movies were like. "They're dark in one place and light in another," she said.…
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...is what I'm on this week at the Auteurs' Topics/Questions/Exercises column. It's a shame, but sometimes it takes a genuine tragedy to provide some perspective on...well, a lot of things.…
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After seeing John Hillcoat's intense outback Western The Proposition at the Toronto Film Festival in 2005, I compared notes with another critic, who said with a laugh, "Boy, that's a…
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