...there was Jason Holliday, the gregarious subject of Shirley Clarke's still-somehow radical 1967 Portrait of Jason, itself the subject of today's Foreign Region DVD Report. I got to thinking about…
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After watching so many films that are so similar in content and construction that they are hard to tell apart, it is a real pleasure to come across something that…
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It's a topic that won't seem to go away, isn't it? Okay, so I'll make you a deal—if it does go away, I'll stop bitching about it. The topic, that…
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Dave Eggers in The Guardian: "Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple…
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Before Jerry Dammers and The Special AKA wrote that song about him in 1983, I didn’t know who Nelson Mandela was. When I bought the record and read the story…
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In an effort to get the backlog posted I won't be lovingly hand-crafting interesting links throughout the next few sets of reviews. They will be illustrated and tagged, but frankly…
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