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Time keeps on slippin' and the internet expands fast as the universe itself, which means we should all link to each other, lest distance grow long. I've had transcendence on my mind as I sink into the mire of a late November cold, and lo, there is Mickey Rourke, The Guardian, Kim Morgan and ...
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Finally saw RACHEL GETTING MARRIED, which is like a Demme film reunion party that everyone's invited to, but after you leave, you never see any of them again. And there's something about that which makes your own life seem, perhaps, empty by comparison. Unless, of course, you're lucky enough ...
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Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a screening of some of Kenneth Anger’s most recent short films - hosted by Mr. Anger himself. The legendary "underground filmmaker" was surprisingly youthful and energetic for a guy born in 1927, looking not significantly older than he does in the ...
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David Lynch
Critics are mixed and audience feedback wildly disparate over Quantum of Solace, but while you are formulating your opinion or, like me, waiting for the initial crowds to disperse before taking in the second Daniel Craig entry, why not give a 'flix to the Bonds of the illustrious past? Better ...
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James Bond
November 14 marks the birthday of lithe, sinuous dancer, natural beauty and first-rate swordswoman, Sandahl Bergman. She played only two major iconic roles: lead dancer in the 1979 Bob Fosse film All that Jazz , and Valeria, queen of thieves, in Conan the Barbarian (1982), but what a pair of ...
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This week's L.A. City Beat has a fascinating cover story by Ron Garmon about one-shot auteur and "gay icon," Tom Graeff. After producing, writing, directing, and co-starring in Teenagers From Outer Space , a 1959 cult classic (lampooned on Mystery Science Theater ) that is simultaneously ...
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I've been revisiting the Sean Connery Bonds lately,
on widescreen projection, where the immaculate detail and lush
photography of airports, country roads, mosques, and Ealing Studio interiors come alive. But what I am really noticing is the full ...
"She's Gone to the ends of the universe.... on STP." - Late Tonight, on TCM, do tape it, flower-bama
If you can't remember, I'll tell you, tonight is that greatest of all time travel movies, La Jatee (1961) at 1 AM EST on Turner Classic Movies. It's short, it's in French and black and white and it's the inspiration for T welve Monkey s, and brother, what else can you say after that? Then, ...
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The Universe
Granted, “chihuahua” is a difficult word of many of us to decode. Excuse me for not reading Inca! Or Aztec, or Mayan, or whatever. So it’s not too surprising that advertisements for Beverly Hills Chihuahua offer a phonetic spelling—“cheé-wow-wä,” to be precise—along with two pictures of the damn ...
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Photographers' model ( above ). Talented and charismatic "bad girl" actress. Novelist ( I Love You, Kirk ). Director and screenwriter of two personal and highly eccentric feature films - Scarlet Diva and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things - in which she also starred, both quite intriguing ...
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Asia Argento
Sofia Coppola
The Women
Issue 62 of Bright Lights Film Journal is now online. from the editor Change you can believe in? features foyer Finding Unlikely Ideology in Prokofiev: Polyphonic and Anti-Authoritarian Gestures in The Gambler — "Alexei must be condemned to the pointless, loveless, and finally false ...
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The Amnesiac Bond