Roger Ebert on the personal, private places he loves (and the joys of being alone with them, as well as the occasional pleasures to be found in sharing them): I…
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Here's a New York Times profile of Frost/Nixon star, and great character actor, Frank Langella. Langella once bought the Broadway rights to the hit kiwi "comedy" Ladies' Night and author…
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Acclaimed broadcaster and (slightly less acclaimed) pianist Jack Perkins has a book coming out. It's a collection of his exceptionally well-written cricket reminiscences from the excellent indie-cricket blog Cricket Mystery.…
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Compelled once again by Christmas deadlines to sum up the year in cinema, I have been thinking a lot about how some movies stay with you and some don't, how…
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I draw your attention to Steve Garden's survey of the 11 Best Unreleased Films from this year's Film Festival at Lumiére. This year I made the mistake of using the…
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Finally, we have a week with only one new film in it: a chance for me to stretch my legs, extemporise, riff a little, get my hands dirty. Yeah, I've…
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