Rose Hobart (yes, that one) regards good-for-nothing Charles Farrell in Borzage's Liliom, 1930. One of the near-inexhaustible pleasures/opportunities for discovery provided by the Murnau, Borzage and Fox box set is Liliom,…
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This is my contribution to the Early Hawks blogathon. Thanks to Laszlo Szabo for inspiration. In Joseph McBride's indespensible Hawks on Hawks, its subject, Howard, reflects on the narrative function…
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Well, the reviews are in, and my mom is gonna kill me. "...kudos to Kenny, who plays gross, sleazy and deeply creepy with immaculate perfection."—Devin Faraci, CHUD. "...Glenn Kenny as one of…
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No, not THAT kind of award, silly. This kind. Tim Lucas, the formidable talent behind Video Watchdog (the magazine and the blog), not to mention the most mind-blowing cinema-biography ever…
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In all the years I attended the Sundance Film Festival, and saw various and sundry films, great and lousy, projected on the enormous screen of the Eccles Center, I never…
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...but the Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report is up, at The Auteurs'. This week, Losey and Pinter's staggeringly great The Go-Between, with Julie Christie and Alan Bates.
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