"How do you do; my name is Sabu..." Over at the exemplary DVD-rating website DVD Beaver, some readers chime on Beavermeister Gary W. Tooze's review of the new Criterion edition…
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You wanted eclectic, composer Earle Hagen could give you eclectic. On the one hand, the down-home lope of The Andy Griffith Show theme, which, although best known as whistled by…
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Like Alan J. Pakula, he apotheosized the intelligent mainstream of Hollywood moviemaking. Trained in theater and television, Pollack was neither an easy rider nor a raging bull, although in his…
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Break it down: PALME D'OR: Entre Les Murs (The Class), directed by Laurent Cantet As Dave Kehr points out, the first French film to take Cannes top prize in 21…
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...because, in a switcheroo familiar to many Cannes veterans (didn't this happen with Rosetta, too?), the Palme D'or went to the last film in the Competition, Laurent Cantet's fact-based The…
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My buddy Matt Carr, photog supreme, bemoaned the lack of portrait-taking opportunities afforded him at Cannes this year, thus soft-soaping me into sort-of sitting for him. Stern result is below…
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