Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro is nuts. I should be quick to point out that I mean that in a good way—I was engaged by it, entranced by it, and finally…
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In 1996, in a piece for Commentary, which has, as many of you know, been consistently covering itself in glory throughout its existence (see here, for example), the culture critic…
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The recent Blu-ray release of Clouzot's ever-great The Wages of Fear prompts some pinkish musings on the film and its contemporary context, over at The Auteurs'.
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I don't usually weigh in on this sort of thing, but recently I've wondered, has Details editor Daniel Peres gone on a diet of raw meat or something? I grant…
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Alfred Hitchcock (floating, far right) in Alain Resnais and Alain Robbe-Grillet's Last Year At Marienbad, 1961. Shortly prior to this shot, the film's narration mentions "a gray silhouette of a…
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Photo © Robin Holland"All of us will always owe him everything." Jean-Luc Godard said that about Orson Welles. I say that about Andrew Sarris, who was incomprehensibly let go from…
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