In Pola XIt is terrible to learn of the death of Guillaume Depardieu, of pneumonia, at the age of 37. The actor had a famously eventful and troubled life, and…
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Marshall Fine, who has the distinction of having authored quite-good biographies of Sam Peckinpah and John Cassavetes on the one hand, and being the movie reviewer for a magazine the…
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In the "O Tempora! O Mores!" category:For all of the anarchic energy of his films, Bunuel led an orderly life and made his movies the same way. ''He gave me…
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"I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies—every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost."
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As the next few days are going to be filled with activities not merely time-consuming but conceivably psyche-draining, posting could be lighter than usual, even for a weekend. All will…
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