Lately I've been seeing a lot of virtual hand-wringing about how, particularly on the internet, writing about movies has devolved into writing about writing about movies. I am not unsympathetic…
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T. Frank (David Weber), Paulette (Doris Hargrave), and Frank (Sonny Davis) at the drive-in, in Eagle Pennell and Lin Sutherland's The Whole Shootin' Match, 1978If you've never seen, let alone…
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Strange as it may seem but reviewers are people too and, like the rest of you ordinary folk, we have blind spots and mine is horror. Back when I was…
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One supposes that it was inevitable—that someday, some extremely conscious men of vision would use the most advanced, sophisticated, versatile digital imaging technology extant for the purpose of making a…
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...as a brunette, yet. By 1967 the former child actress had not yet achieved the full sex-kitten effect that would so transfix Charles Bronson in 1969's Twinky, and be so…
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What else? Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest. Happy President's Day, whatever that is. I'm off to the Film Forum to catch the ineffable…
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