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Aesthetics Auteurs Images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Palate cleanser

Nighty-night from Richard Widmark and Gloria Grahame in The Cobweb, Vincente Minnelli, 1955.

Glenn KennyFebruary 10, 2011

Aesthetics Auteurs Criticism Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Truffaut/Hitchcock

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and…

Glenn KennyJanuary 23, 2011

Aesthetics Movie assessment Movies Polemics self-indulgence Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Dear Kent Osborne,

40 IS a bitch. Man, don’t I know it! I think it was Martin Amis…

Glenn KennyJanuary 22, 2011

Aesthetics Auteurs Images Movies Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Please don't shut up and show us your tits

There's a leitmotif about sexuality (among other things) running through Sofia Coppola's new film Somewhere…

Glenn KennyJanuary 10, 2011

Aesthetics Images Literary interludes Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Literary interlude, with illustration

You tell me I missed the most interesting part But I think I found the…

Glenn KennyDecember 29, 2010

Aesthetics Criticism Deep thoughts Diversions Misc. inanity Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Effin mad aincha

One of the interesting things about writing for a larger, more mainstream audience, as I…

Glenn KennyDecember 17, 2010

Aesthetics Amusement Auteurs Comedy Creeping you out DVD Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Tales From The Warner Archives #10: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds and Anne Francis in a film by Kenneth Anger...

...oh, no, wait, it's the aforementioned. That is, Frank Tashlin's Susan Slept Here, 1954. A…

Glenn KennyDecember 14, 2010

Aesthetics Housekeeping Movies Music Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Toru, Toru, Toru

I have some thoughts on the greatness of the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu, whose work…

Glenn KennyDecember 3, 2010

Aesthetics Images Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

Three images in chronological order

Jules et Jim, directed by François Truffaut, photography by Raoul Coutard, 1962 The Sound of…

Glenn KennyOctober 31, 2010

Aesthetics Auteurs DVD Great Art Some Came Running by Glenn Kenny

What, and give up show business?

One imagines that certain Ingmar Bergman skeptics and out-and-out detractors might find cause to term…

Glenn KennyOctober 28, 2010

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