I see my buddy Keith Uhlich at The House Next Door has noted the passing of jazz great Johnny Griffin with both a link and a clip. But one is…
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Maria Montez in Arabian Nights, John Rawlins, 1942 * * * She was the bane of critics—that person whose effect cannot be known by words, described in words, flaunts words…
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My former interlocuter and good friend Aaron Aradillas has started a blog-radio show called "Back By Midnight," and I am honored to be one of his first guests. He invited…
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Frequent commenter Dan, in the comments to the below post, asks what I "make of" a very long post on a horror movie fan message board. It is titled "FINDING…
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Michel Piccoli, Capri, and the Mediterranean Sea in Contempt, Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 The impulse behind posting this image does not, for once, reside in this blog's obsession with Godard and…
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The old woman calls the shadow revels to an end...; Vampyr ...was on November 4, 1980. Election day of that year. I had come into Manhattan from New Jersey to…
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