His Laugh-In bits mystified me more than they amused me, and hence, I was pretty much thoroughly unprepared for the sinister qualities he brought to 1973's The Long Goodbye and…
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Got a review copy of the standard-definition DVD of The Girlfriend Experience (guess I don't rate a Blu-ray, geez) and was amused/appalled by the bit of fake swag that came…
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...film within film, 1913 style, in Louis Feuillade's A Tragic Error, also in the Kino Gaumont box referenced below. It's funny, I was thinking the other day, about how when I…
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Approaching complete abstraction in The Roman Orgy, Louis Feuillade, 1911.In my alternate-universe film history, Feuillade's Judex takes the place of Griffith's Birth of a Nation and everybody goes home happy.I'm…
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Some might argue that films maudit don't get much more maudit than Jean Renoir's very strange 1947 The Woman on the Beach, his last Hollywood film. Joan Bennett (that's her…
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Using my rarely-tapped powers of quiet diplomacy and sweet reason, I manage to convince a prominent not-left-wing blogger that the old canard about Pauline Kael and Nixon is just that.…
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