One of my favorite songwriters, and, I have to admit (the spirit of the full disclosure print journalist intrudes) one of my favorite people, ever, at his most off-handedly…
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That's not something I normally say, for a variety of reasons, and I only say it now because, well, I looked at the above trailer for the about-to-start New…
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Death to Block: "What the fuck is up?"Today a snazzed-up new special edition of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal comes out in a standard-definition DVD, and even more exciting (for…
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Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro is nuts. I should be quick to point out that I mean that in a good way—I was engaged by it, entranced by it, and finally…
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In 1996, in a piece for Commentary, which has, as many of you know, been consistently covering itself in glory throughout its existence (see here, for example), the culture critic…
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