I did not participate in today's CriticWire poll about "Inappropriate Viewing" (an entire generation of Feisty Film Writers traumatized by James Cameron, apparently—but man, is Richard Brody's entry a doozy!)…
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1961. Directed by Elia Kazan. Director of Photography, Boris Kaufman. Actors, in order of appearance: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Zohra Lampert.
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Dan and Kailey are joined by Sarah Reese, director of the Alliance Française French Film Festival, to talk about this year's event which opened in Auckland on 19 February, and…
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Remember this guy? In the early spring of 2001 I got a call from Tom Bissell, who was then an editor at Henry Holt. I had been referred to Tom…
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Online commentator, reviewer and raconteur Steve Gray joins Kailey and Dan on the line from Hamilton, New Zealand, to help review Reese Witherspoon in Wild, Julianne Moore in Still Alice and Johnny Depp in Mortdecai.…
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I think both Alexei German's Hard To Be A God (above) and Abderrahamane Sisako's Timbuktu are masterpieces, but they're also films that demonstrate the necessary elasticity of the possibly overused term.…
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