Sunday, April 28, 2013

TCM CLASSIC MOVIE FESTIVAL 2013 DAY 1 PT. 2: PULL THE STRINGS! PULL THE STRINGS!

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After feeling the slight pull of my eyelids as Marmaduke Ruggles (Bill, or the Colonel, to his best friend) finally opened the A...
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Saturday, April 27, 2013

TCM CLASSIC MOVIE FESTIVAL 2013 DAY 1, PT. 1: DISILLUSIONMENT AND BLISS

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When you can honestly say that Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939), which I thoroughly enjoyed as a kick-start to this year’s TCM Cla...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

TCM FEST 2013: OPENING NIGHT

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Last year’s Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival began for me not unlike an action thriller. I landed in Hollywood the...
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Thursday, April 11, 2013

MIDDLE OF THE ROAD: ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE

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Electra Glide in Blue  (1973) has the trappings of an action movie, but the crime investigation at the center of its plot feels more lik...
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Friday, April 05, 2013

STAN'S LABYRINTH IN LOS ANGELES: ROOM 237

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The following piece was originally written for the 2012 AFI Fest, and I thought it was worth reposting on the occasion of the Los Ange...
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Thursday, April 04, 2013

THE 2013 WHITE ELEPHANT BLOG-A-THON-- CRIMSON MERCY: RED ANGEL (1966)

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  Red Angel is a decidedly nonhysterical movie about madness, specifically, the madness of war, but also the delirium of love, the le...
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Saturday, March 30, 2013

GETTING IT WRONG AND CLOSER TO RIGHT

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Writer-director-cinematographer-musician Quentin Dupieux (did he also make lunch for the crew?) began his last film, Rubber, the u...