Over at RogerEbert.com, I muse, darkly, on the ostensible subject of "Art, Freedom, and the Bechdel Test." It's the sort of thing I would normally put up here, but as…
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It is possibly indicative of the insularity of the world inhabited by filmmaker Mike Myers and the interview subjects of his non-fiction feature (you can't, or shouldn't, really call it…
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On July 28, Phaidon will release two new books in its Cahiers du Cinema "Anatomy of an Actor" series, one of which is my own study of Robert De Niro.…
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From End of the Road, Aram Avakian, 1970. The actors are Stacy Keach and James Earl Jones. What the hell, here's the third one, which also featured in the Vanity…
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A little background: I've alluded to my band, Artificial Intelligence, on this blog before, most expansively here; in the wake of the engagement described in the linked post, the personnel…
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Don't get too excited. The Protector 2, from which the above still is derived, and which I review at RogerEbert.com, is pretty bad. And Rhatha Phongam doesn't figure in it as…
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