I know what at least some of you are thinking. You're thinking, what does the blogger behind "Some Came Running" and his Lovely Wife do of an autumn weekend? Well,…
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A DVD release of Goffredo Alessandrini's 1942 We the Living, from Ayn Rand's novel, just appeared, and natch Big Hollywood has a worshipful review. Although I am loath to use…
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Here's Dominique Thomas and Ella Creton in Catherine Breillat's imaginative, provocative, shocking, and hilarious adaptation of Perrault's fairy tale, Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard). I caught it at the New York Film…
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You're going to have to go to The Auteurs' Notebook and check out my Topics/Questions/Exercises of the week to find out. And of course you want to!
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Nick Kristof in the New York Times on the choices facing Obama in Afghanistan: For the cost of a single additional soldier stationed in Afghanistan for one year, we could…
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A ballsy Georges Marchal gives his greetings to the local authorities in Death in the Garden, a 1956 Luis Buñuel oddity from right before his second great period. Why oddity?…
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