Sally Eilers in Bad Girl, Frank Borzage, 1930, from the "Murnau, Borzage and Fox" box setFox's staggering John Ford box last year was a euphoric shock for cinephiles who were…
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Assassin's wound, Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro, Hajime Sato, 1968 Amfortas' wound, Parsifal, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, 1982I'm just as perplexed about the whole thing as you must be. But I try to make sense…
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James Franco and Sean Penn in Milk. Image courtesy of Focus Features.Gus Van Sant's Milk begins by giving its audience some context: black-and-white archival footage of police raids various underground…
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I consider Truffaut's flawless 1970 The Wild Child as a parable for non-believers, over at The Auteurs' Notebook.
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One thing for which you've got to give Jonathan Safran Foer credit: he's certainly consistent. Not as a writer, mind you. His debut novel, Everything is Illuminated, its understandable preciosity…
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What a long, strange trip it's been... I ruminate on a cinematic relationship I wouldn't have predicted would last, necessarily, over at The Auteur's Notebook. UPDATE: Link fixed.
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