I've been seriously busy since Christmas putting together a show for the Wellington Fringe (which has gone along very nicely, thank you for asking). It's called "The Immortals" and you…
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Inspired by Jeff Bridges' Best Actor Oscar nom for playing a bad drunk in Crazy Heart, I was asked to ruminate on portrayals of drunks and addicts that have found…
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Near the end of Midnight Movies, the seminal book on cult film he co-wrote with Jonathan Rosenbaum, J. Hoberman recalls his early attempts to run a rep cinema of sorts.…
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...but if you're the only woman on a volcanic island inhabited by Japanese soldiers who won't believe that World War II is over, you're certainly special. Above is Akemi Negishi…
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Jeepers creepers. My consideration of the in-progress Film Comments Selects series, featuring Phillipe Grandrieux's Un Lac (that's its costar Alexei Solonchev in the still above), among a good many other…
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So. I know I promised a contribution to the wonderful Film Preservation Blogathon hosted by The Self-Styled Siren and Ferdy on FIlm. I kind of like to think that everything…
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