Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice opens with an epigraph: "Under the paving stones, the beach!" which the author designates as "Grafitto, Paris, May 1968." The sentiment is frequently credited…
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Last month the Film Society of Lincoln Center showed, as part of its "Strange Lands: International Sci-Fi" series, Karel Zeman's 1958 Vynálaz zkázy, an unusual live-action/animation hybrid derived from several…
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Yes, I do want fries with that: Carla Juri and Some Dude™ in Wetlands This week for RogerEbert.com I review two very different films with Strong But Troubled Young Female…
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Even skeptics can anticipate. I won't be seeing Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Birdman (a still is above, featuring costars Michael Keaton and Edward Norton) until about a month from now, and…
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WHAT'S GOING ON HERE: Well, when I started writing for RogerEbert.com last year, around the time MSN Movies closed up shop, I thought maybe I could "monetize" this feature. I'd pitched…
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Joseph Cotten in Too Much Johnson, shot in 1938 “Much of the pre-Second World War character of Chicago and New York hardly exists anymore. Everybody builds these mirror boxes, and…
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