They Lost It at the Movies: Film Culture in the Age of Positif and Cineaste
“I can’t believe that you let those people put pictures on your skin.” C. W.’s father to C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde
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Actors & Personalities · Writers & Critics
Manhattan to America: Drop Dead! The New Yorker Takes a Slap at Julia Roberts
“The more he writes about Julia, the madder Tony gets.” One thing the American people do not need in their lives is more stress. They do not need some tea-sipping,[…]
Olivier’s Hamlet (1948) on DVD
A pristine transfer of one of the Bard’s most gothic – and gayest, in Olivier’s hands – works Criterion is continuing its mining of the wonderfully rich Janus film catalog[…]
Anthony Asquith’s Pygmalion (1938) on DVD
Wendy Hiller triumphs in the fine 1938 film of Shaw’s masterpiece The plays of George Bernard Shaw have long been a cinema staple. Works like Caesar and Cleopatra, Saint Joan, Major[…]
Historical & Epic · Reviews · SF & Fantasy · Writers & Critics
Robinson Crusoe and the Ethnic Sidekick
Who knew that Crusoe and Friday would be resurrected daily for service to western culture’s nefarious needs? While we are waiting for Dreamworks’ The Legend of Bagger Vance (starring Matt[…]
Documentaries · Writers & Critics
“Screw the Algonquin, Let’s Catch the Stooges”: Wits from Manhattan’s Golden Age Offer Few Laughs
Yesteryear’s brilliant wags are apparently this year’s terminal bores Film historians and social anthropologists will applaud Kino Video’s recent release of Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin. Viewers[…]
There’s Something about Harry: To Have and Have Not as Novel and Film
Clash of the titans: Hemingway meets Hawks At approximately 200 pages long and driven by dialogue and a memorable protagonist, Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not had all of[…]
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