I've just returned from a screening of Shutter Island. I think I'm not yet permitted to review it, and want some time to gather my thoughts in any case. (I…
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...and sincere ones, at that—as opposed to those offered by the cinematic anti-hero above. All sorts of busy and unwell going on to excuse the lack of blogging, but I…
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In his review at DVD Beaver, Gary Tooze notes that the spine number of the Criterion box set containing three Roberto Rossellini masterpieces is 500, an appropriately auspicious number for…
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The ever-great Jean Simmons, at her most disturbingly beautiful in Preminger's perverse thriller Angel Face, 1952. The actress, a paragon of refinement and grace, died yesterday, age 80.
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