Back in the 70s, when I was about 8 years old, I watched a film on TV called Silent Running. In it Bruce Dern and three little robots tended the…
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I generally refrain from weighing in, whenever possible, on all things Oscar, given that, on a certain level—to put it ala Stephen Malkmus—I don't care, I don't care, I really…
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Aaron Sorkin imagines former President Jed Bartlet giving Candidate Obama a pep talk: BARTLET That was a hell of a convention. OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it. BARTLET…
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Warner's recent box "The Busby Berkeley Collection Volume Two" is a cornucopia of wisecracking, crooning, dancing, and racial diciness. I examine its particulars in a two-part series at The Auteurs'…
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Dave Kehr reviews the new Godfather Trilogy Blu-ray restoration (a restoration in consultation with original cinematographer Gordon Willis) for The New York Times: The effect is not unlike that of…
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Wayne's Sergeant Stryker: Never felt so good in his life, apparently. Having been compelled by meme to spill on twelve movies that I ought to have seen but haven't (a…
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