T.J. Lowther in A Perfect World, Eastwood, 1993My friend Joseph Failla hasn't seen Gran Torino yet, but from what he knows about it he infers a thematic continutiy that I…
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I don't want to give a whole lot away about this picture, as I suspect this blog is frequented by more than a few good Eastwood men and women who…
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...as seen in Wim Wenders' 1974 Alice in the Cities. Of course they weren't ghosts at the time. Which is part of the point of this week's Tuesday Morning Foreign…
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Today, November 29, would have been the 93rd birthday of Mr. Billy Strayhorn, one of the greatest composers in American popular music. Make that music, period. The key compositional collaborator…
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...myself included. My own take on some of the reasons why is over at The Auteurs'. Enjoy, I hope. The above image is from the director's sublime Ride Lonesome, part of…
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