No blues: Charlotte Rampling in Lumet's The Verdict, 1982 Q: You've talked about the irony of how some critics referred to Prince of the City as "realistic" whereas you deliberately…
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Last fall I was pretty delighted to learn that some smart person at Universal Music Group had put together a compilation of the more or less entire recorded ouevre of…
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A couple of months ago I got an e-mail from a friend who asked if I still reviewed jazz records. I kind of got mentally stuck at the "still;" soon…
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I've been friendly with the guitarist and singer/songwriter Gary Lucas since the late 1980s, so I've followed, sometimes from a fair remove, sometimes pretty up close, his collaborations with the…
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For RogerEbert.com, here. Also reviewed: The hilarious 300: Rise of an Empire; the effective In Fear, and the unfortunate War of the Worlds: Goliath.
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Kim Novak in Bell, Book and Candle, Richard Quine, 1957 In the still-vital book Hitchcock/Truffaut, made up mostly (and in the first edition, pretty much entirely) of interviews between the…
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