In commemoration of my friend Tom Carson's engaging review of Mr. Davis' latest book, The Soundtrack Of My Life, I relate this anecdote. I guess it was 1994. I had…
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I was honored to be asked to write this essay on Martin Scorsese for Humanities magazine, in commemoration of Scorsese's delivering the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in Humanities. I'm happy with…
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Maria Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). This is how the frame appears in the current Eureka!/Masters of Cinema Blu-ray disc edition of the…
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We journey to Oz – to meet The Great and Powerful - and go back to University with 21 & Over and Liberal Arts, plus Dan interviews the writer-director of new…
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It’s a question that has been burning away inside all of us for nearly 75 years - how did the Wizard (who wasn’t really a wizard at all but a…
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