James Franco and Sean Penn in Milk. Image courtesy of Focus Features.Gus Van Sant's Milk begins by giving its audience some context: black-and-white archival footage of police raids various underground…
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I consider Truffaut's flawless 1970 The Wild Child as a parable for non-believers, over at The Auteurs' Notebook.
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One thing for which you've got to give Jonathan Safran Foer credit: he's certainly consistent. Not as a writer, mind you. His debut novel, Everything is Illuminated, its understandable preciosity…
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What a long, strange trip it's been... I ruminate on a cinematic relationship I wouldn't have predicted would last, necessarily, over at The Auteur's Notebook. UPDATE: Link fixed.
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Lester Young, the real first black President (pace Toni Morrison), in Jammin' The Blues, Gjon Mili, 1944.Hope you all had as pleasant an election night as we did. (I expect…
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One of my all-time favorite writers, Georges Perec, co-created a stunning film version of his novel Un Homme Qui Dort back in 1974. It's the subject of today's Tuesday Morning…
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