Tomorrow, Zeitgeist releases a new, improved domestic DVD of Olivier Assayas' 1996 Irma Vep, an exhilarating, sometimes acid comedy about movies and moviemaking, in which Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung stars…
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A bad weekend for some distinctively lovely women of film, and their fans. Nina FochNot a day after the death of Nina Foch, the glamourous Netherlands-born star of My Name…
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As dramatic as Klaatu's descent from his spaceship is in Robert Wise' 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still is, I'm always even more struck by the alien's appearance at…
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From Werewolf of London, 1935I never met the man who coined the term "sci-fi" and founded and edited the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, but it's safe to say that…
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It isn't online at the Cap Times, so I thought I would archive my interview with The Visitor star, Richard Jenkins here. I spoke with Richard by phone last Sunday…
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While the Bond 22 juggernaut threatens to crush everything in it’s path, a couple of plucky little indies try and offer a wholesome alternative (and stay out of harm’s way…
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