"The best French writer is Robbe-Grillet whom we met in Paris..."—VN, letter to Edmund Wilson, January 19, 1960"There is no question, as we have seen, of establishing a theory, a…
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90 minutes away from the first day of the 1st Test of the Ashes from lovely Cardiff, here's something to warm the heart of any cricket fan, the Compton Cricket…
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...for reasons inaccessible to my conscious mind (maybe I was spurred on by Millie Perkins telling me in an interview that she was a fan of Jean Cocteau, or maybe,…
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Today John Nolte, editor-in-chief of Big Hollywood, the Andrew Breitbart-presented conservative movie website, commemorated the site' six-month anniversary and, as is the custom with such celebrations, lavished fulsome praise on…
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Bela Tarr's 2007 The Man From London, a film one might categorize as "a grower," is the topic of this week's Foreign Region DVD Report, over at The Auteurs'.
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Millie Perkins in The Diary of Anne Frank, George Stevens, 1959In his epic examination Histoire(s) du cinéma, Jean-Luc Godard mordantly observes of director George Stevens, "if hadn't been the first…
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