Paul Schrader's 1990 The Comfort of Strangers is, as it happens, pretty spare on very peculiarly angled shots; the above screen grab just happens to be of one of them,…
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I feel like a bit of a blogging shitheel. I got a head's up about the Early Howard Hawks Blogathon from its instigator, Only The Cinema's Ed Howard, quite some…
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My friend Aaron Aradillas writes: I saw Gran Torino last night and was wondering if you were thinking of creating a thread on your blog so it can be talked about, spoilers and…
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Roger Ebert on the personal, private places he loves (and the joys of being alone with them, as well as the occasional pleasures to be found in sharing them): I…
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Anna Karina, the back of Howard Vernon, Laszlo Szabo, Alphaville, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965First things first: you should check out the official version of this story, at the fabulous Auteurs website. The…
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"Hey, how you doin' back there in that cab? Yeah, it's us, Regis and Kelly!"Good God. Remember George C. Scott in Hardcore? "TURN IT OFF!!!!!" Seriously, this is what you…
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