Contempt Hey, remember—when was it, last year?— when Criterion announced a Blu-ray of Kurosawa's Ran, and everyone who had a Blu-ray player and wasn't a putz who thought the format was…
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Good gosh, how I really wanted to love the new British Blu-ray of Dario Argento's Suspiria, and watch it over and over and over again all the live-long day. But…
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The horrific yet supremely satisfying finale to Chuck Jones' brutally brilliant 1951 tale of animal exploitation, Chow Hound. One of the toughest cartoons ever, really. The Eisenhower era was an…
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The now semi-retired film critic Nathan Lee, when writing at his most unfettered, is one part connoisseur, one part provocateur, one part contrarian, and three parts...well, probably best not to…
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Sometimes it's either too hard to resist, or all too called-for. The snark, I mean. An Oscar prognosticator earns a pastiche, and at the same time, I laud a new…
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So I had been contemplating checking out some cinema that would enhance my overall aesthetic well-being and extend my appreciation of art's human dimensions, and stuff, but there was this…
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