Just one of the many trenchant, multi-layered, altogether sublime images from the divine Max Ophuls' 1955 Lola Montes, an oft-mutilated and misrepresented masterpiece that's soon to come in a beautifully…
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It hurts, I gotta tell ya. The actual nominations contain some real interesting choices. Who knew that District 9 would be the wild card entry in the Best Picture tenplex?…
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The sublime Eric is still on my mind, and some other things besides, so I contemplate Rohmer's first feature, a picture about a doppelganger of mine, 1959's Le signe du…
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I think I've mentioned at least once on this blog that it was very unlikely that I'd ever do Oscar predictions, or any other such sort of thing, again, unless…
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So yesterday I attended a movie junket for the first time in over 20 years. I'm not gonna tell you the movie I was covering, or the outlet I was…
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Over at The Auteurs', I put on my grumpy old man hat (which is getting to be a really good fit), and contemplate all that I'm missing by not being…
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