Simon Yam (center) and his pickpocketing pals want to know if you'll still have a song to sing when the razor boys come and take your fancy things away. No,…
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Marcello Mastroianni, 8 1/2, Federico Fellini, 1961 Sonia Saviange, Salo or The 120 Days Of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1976I am a trifle out of sorts today. Heat rash, and…
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Leo and Elmina were staying up on Sepulveda at the Skyhook Lodge, which did a lot of airport business and was populated day and night with the insomniac, the stranded…
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In her less-than-enthusiastic review of Inglourious Basterds today, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis kind of brings the professional self-loathing or some such thing. Describing the film's fourth chapter, she…
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Turns out there's really no way to do the Topics/Questions/Exercises of the week without bringing out the, shall we say, sharp-edged humor, so I let loose in a special 3-D…
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No, seriously, for it is indeed Marlene Jobert... ...at the end of Maurice Pialat's staggering Nous ne viellirons pas ensemble (We won't grow old together), which I examine in some…
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