—I miss Robert Garlock too, as it happens.—Very nice, also, the acknowledgement of Manny Farber. A Condon consideration, I'd reckon. He knows about that stuff.—The Franco/Rogen thingie was the funniest…
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I rather like the world-weariness with which Jeffrey Wells announces "I'll be live blogging the Oscars along with everyone else." Sure, go ahead, be one of the sheep. As for…
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Next Tuesday Fox Home Entertainment releases a revamped DVD of the 1971 cult classic Vanishing Point in both standard definition and Blu-ray editions. Both look very fine indeed, but if…
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Lately I've been seeing a lot of virtual hand-wringing about how, particularly on the internet, writing about movies has devolved into writing about writing about movies. I am not unsympathetic…
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T. Frank (David Weber), Paulette (Doris Hargrave), and Frank (Sonny Davis) at the drive-in, in Eagle Pennell and Lin Sutherland's The Whole Shootin' Match, 1978If you've never seen, let alone…
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One supposes that it was inevitable—that someday, some extremely conscious men of vision would use the most advanced, sophisticated, versatile digital imaging technology extant for the purpose of making a…
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