Speaking of my being mean-spirited, over at The Auteurs' I have a little fun charting the anatomy of an Armond White backpedal, and finding unusual affinities between one of the…
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...The Loud Family's "Ballad Of How You Can All Shut Up" goes out to Movieline's S.T. Vanairsdale and Spout's Christopher Campbell, whose concern-trolling (no links) over the putatively underwhelming trailer…
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A year and change after its Cannes Film Festival debut, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Lorna's Silence is having its U.S. theatrical debut tomorrow. I've seen the picture a few times…
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Ida Lupino in a nicely expressionist frame from Nicholas Ray's 1952 On Dangerous Ground, which just played yesterday as part of NYC treasure Film Forum's Ray retrospective, which is ongoing…
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...and I love this spot in Paris, with its lovely view of Notre Dame's flying buttresses, which today is little changed from when this shot was made for Marcel Carné's…
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A strange, awful and yet wonderful paragraph from a New York Times article on the death of an artist I had never heard of: A Hamster’s Nest is what it…
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