This past week may have been the most consistently satisfying week of cinema-going since I started this journey with you back in 2006: seven very different films, all with something…
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We’re born alone and we die alone and in between nothing goes according to plan and the people around us are mostly unreliable and occasionally malevolent. Meanwhile, God either doesn’t…
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Well. I suppose that I could always say, "How about one-hundred-and-twenty-five, then?" or some such thing, but at a certain point the list-making has got to stop. And so now…
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A perhaps shocking admission awaits you in this week's Topics/Questions/Exercises, only at The Auteurs'.
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...and because my best-of-the-decade list of 70 slighted (inevitably, I insist) at least two dozen other worthy works, if not more, I hereby consider my readers' suggestions, and my own…
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Lars von Trier on Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (via Kottke and Gruber): I saw the film when it came out. I was in my early twenties. The first time I saw…
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