Thinking about Hawks for my contribution to the "Early Hawks Blogathon," it was the reflection from the late work which helped determine my subject in treating the early work. And…
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I'm sure that, aside from her understandable irritation at the circumstance, my old pal Anne Thompson is at least a little chuffed to see her layoff from Variety cited as…
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Took me forever to get a copy of the Sony "The Films Of Michael Powell" double-feature DVD. Didn't get the review copy, and Sony apparently didn't initially manufacture enough to…
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Sylvia Pinal as Satan as Jesus in Simon of the Desert, Bunuel, 1965"Thank God I'm an atheist," the great director Luis Bunuel was fond of repeating in his later years,…
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So, the Oscar nominations were announced some time last week, and I didn't have much to say about them, because I can't be arsed, for reasons that I think can…
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