At one point during his excellent commentary for the New Yorker Video edition of Robert Bresson's L'Argent, my friend Kent Jones takes a minute or two to lambaste what he…
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I wouldn't want to watch an entire feature film in 11 parts via YouTube but when it's Geoff Murphy's The Quiet Earth I might consider it:
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Not for anything, but I would have been delighted if, after stating "and he of course accepts Reverend Jackson's apology," Barack Obama spokesperson Bill Burton had added, "but on the…
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Two films this week made by screen legends whose careers have settled in to something a little less than their glorious past. Sidney Lumet was making television drama when it…
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James Fox and Anita Pallenberg, Performance, Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg, 1970 Kenji Sawada and Setsuko Karasuma, Mishima, Paul Schrader, 1985 On the commentary track of the new and wonderful…
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This morning I hustled across town to Radio NZ House on The Terrace to review Duncan Sarkies' new novel "Two Little Boys" for Nine to Noon. You can click here…
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