I first heard of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep when it was admiringly referenced in Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Anderson's witty and knowing appreciation of LA in the movies,…
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Phillippe Loyrette recites the work of "the James Dean of French fascism" in Godard's Eloge de l'amour, 2001. The first mention of Bobert Bressilach in Richard Brody’s near-exhaustive Everything is…
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At a symposium on films and film criticism held last fall in Brookline, Massachusetts, the great critic and essayist Phillip Lopate, in the middle of an eloquent and inarguably correct…
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See here. As a regular reader of LGM, I was present at the birth of this particular meme. It was strangely satisfying, I must say...
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I'm happy to announce that I've joined the terrific crew of writers over at The Auteurs' Notebook—not that I'm abandoning my post here, mind you. My first piece for the…
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I think we can safely call a halt to these semi-annual Hulk movies now - the new one is good enough that we can all move on (Ant-Man is evidently…
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