I was delighted to be collegially cited in this really insightful and enjoyable virtual discussion of Godard and Bresson by Kent Jones and Jonathan Rosenbaum over at Indiewire (I never get…
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Come on, you'd use that as a headline too, if you could. Anyway. Over at MSN Entertainment, in commemoration of his upcoming feting at the Golden Globes, I give the…
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At the risk of sounding slightly spoil-sportish, allow me to suggest good rule for the cinematic archeologist is not to always expect too much. Lord knows there are plenty of…
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1) "Eraserhead's not a movie I'd drop acid for, although I would consider it a revolutionary act if someone dropped a reel of it into the middle of Star Wars."—The…
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Alec Guinness as The Man In The White Suit, Alexander MacKendrick, 1951 Tony Curtis with Sharon Tate in Don't Make Waves, Alexander MacKendrick, 1967 Surely I can't be the first…
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1) The final third of The Last Genet, Hadrien Laroche (1997; Arsenal edition, 2010) Certainly a great idea for a book: an in-depth examination of the writing/political activism of notorious…
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