Adam Arkin and Michael Stuhlbarg in A Serious Man. Photo: Wilson Webb. Courtesy of Focus Features. This notion that Joel and Ethan Coen consider themselves superior to the characters they…
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At this week's Topics, there are...topics. Slow news week that it was, I suppose you can imagine what at least one of them is. And after that, I leave the…
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From The Golem, 1920, Paul Wegener and Carl Boese.Which reminds me, I gotta get in gear and write up the Coens' fabulous A Serious Man soon. Not at all a…
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are two new versions of F.W. Murnau's immortal Sunrise. And you don't need any special player to enjoy them, hence the slight name change of my column to the Foreign…
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While I'm waiting for the materials I need to complete my Tuesday Foreign DVD report to materialize, allow me to point out that today's the day the DVD and Blu-ray…
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* About twenty minutes into my first viewing of this utterly beguiling film, observing the bizarre behavior of one of its lead characters Georges Palet (an exquisite performance by André…
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