Northwest Hounded Police, Tex Avery, 1946 This one never gets old, does it?
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I love this idea: Speaking of caring, though, no discussion about coffee would be complete without mentioning the Neapolitan tradition of the "caffè pagato", the paid-for coffee. What happens is…
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..my own, that is. This is a truly self-indulgent post, but I imagine some of my audience might get a jolt out of the picture below the fold, particularly if…
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I saw Isabel Coixet's Elegy, a Nicholas-Meyer-scripted adaptation of Philip Roth's short novel The Dying Animal, several months ago, and was more than a little impressed with it in spite…
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Today, I ponder how strange the change from major to minor, as I grapple with a "minor" work of Jacques Rivette, 1984's L'Amour par la terre (Love on the Ground).…
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August 3, 2008, Copyright Glenn Kenny! —Can The Dark Knight beat Titanic? And if The Dark Knight beats Titanic, what does that say about Titanic? Or The Dark Knight? Or…
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