I learned this morning, via an e-mail from a mutual friend who was very close to him, that the critic and artist Manny Farber died last night, at his home…
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"Even by director Robert Bresson’s exacting, idiosyncratic standards, his 1974 Lancelot du Lac is a peculiar film," I write over at The Auteurs' Notebook. The original poster for the film…
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My Lovely Wife and I shall sally forth tomorrow to a couple of undisclosed locations, for the purposes of, as Elmer Fudd would put it, west and wewaxation. Because frankly,…
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As much as his departed partners Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun did, the journalist turned entrepreneur/producer transformed modern American music. A few things he had his hand in: Ray Charles. I…
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You've all probably seen this already. But still. I only wish I'd had the balls to have pulled something like that one of the handful of times I was compelled…
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