As a white, male, American heterosexual approaching the age of 50 (don't worry, I'm not gonna whine about how I'm oppressed) I have a simultaneously dim and vivid memory of…
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Today's New York Observer has a profile of conservative Hollywood conservative gadfly Andrew Breitbart, wherein the reporter mostly transcribes Breitbart talking, and talking, and talking, to rather stupefying effect. I…
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Checking out the recently issued Blu-ray disc of Clint Eastwood's 1977 The Gauntlet (a nice disc, by the way, but nothing to write home about; also note that all the…
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From The Passionate Friends, 1949 Inspired by Film Forum's upcoming David Lean retrospective, I take down itv's excellent Region 2 box "The David Lean Collection" from the shelf, and review/preview…
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My ISP, XNet, appears to be undergoing some kind of catastrophic malfunction at the moment as my home DSL and home telephone are down; none of their web sites are…
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The latest issue of the terrific film journal Cineaste has a very lengthy feature called "Film Criticism in the Age of the Internet: A Critical Symposium," and yeah mon, it…
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