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1957 was clearly a bumper year for John Frankenheimer on Playhouse 90: the eleven shows that he directed included The Ninth Day (January 10, the only one I can faintly recall having seen at the time), The Comedian (February 14), The Last Tycoon (March 14), and then a second F. Scott Fitzgerald ...
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Tycoon
This book review appeared in the sixth issue of the Canadian quarterly Cinema Scope (Winter 2001), a magazine for which I’ve also been writing a regular DVD column for a good many years. —J.R.
The American Cinema Revisited
Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic:
Essays in Honor of ...
Celebrities
This appeared in the February 24, 1989 issue of the Chicago Reader. –J.R.
THE ‘BURBS
*** (A must-see)
Directed by Joe Dante
Written by Dana Olsen
With Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun, Corey Feldman, Wendy Schaal, Henry Gibson, Brother Theodore, and Courtney ...
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One of my first published reviews, which appeared in the November 2, 1972 issue of The Village Voice, this was commissioned by Andrew Sarris, bless him. I was always grateful for this opportunity to write about a film that I love, and that I continue to cherish. –J.R.
Jonas Mekas’s ...
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It’s been over five months since I submitted this brief article to FIPRESCI for their web site, at their (characteristically urgent) request, in mid-June, just after attending the Seattle International Film Festival as a member of the FIPRESCI jury. It seems pretty certain by now that they ...
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This appeared in the April 4, 1997 issue of the Chicago Reader. –J.R.
Citizen Ruth
Rating * (Has redeeming facet)
Directed and written by Alexander Payne
With Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Kurtwood Smith, Mary Kay Place, Kelly Preston, M.C. Gainey, Burt Reynolds, and Tippi ...
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I conducted two interviews with Michael Snow in the early 1980s. The first of these, commissioned by Film Comment’s Richard Corliss (who sent me to Toronto in order to do it), was about Snow’s film Presents and ran in the magazine’s May-June 1981 issue. The second, which will ...
Celebrities
If memory serves, the following review, written in mid-February 2005, is the only submitted film review I ever wrote for the Chicago Reader during my more than 20 years on the staff which the paper’s editor chose not to run. I’m posting it now not in order to contest in any way her ...
Celebrities
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Since I’m no longer a regular reviewer and never have been much of a fan of the Coen brothers’ special brand of scornful, smart-ass caricature, I’ve been slow in catching up with A Serious Man, which turns out to be one of their most interesting (not to mention most serious, or ...
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A Serious Man
The following review of Lost in La Mancha appeared in the February 21, 2003 issue of the Chicago Reader. Seeing the new Terry Gilliam film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (see above), last Saturday (November 7), on my last evening in St.. Andrews, Scotland, I was sufficiently blown away by the ...
Celebrities
The following review of my first book, Moving Places: A Life at the Movies (1980), signed by one Nancy Rothstein and entitled “Placing Movies”, appeared in the May-June 1981 issue of Film Comment. In point of fact, this was written by me, with the full knowledge and complicity of ...
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What’s most disconcerting about Jane Campion’s affecting evocation of Fanny Brawne and John Keats, which I caught up with tonight in Edinburgh, is that it has an exquisite soundtrack for me — erotic, tactile, essentialist in the best sense — only when Keats’ poetry ...
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As nearly as I can remember, this was written circa 2002 for Cineaste. —J.R.
It’s astonishing how little we still know about Soviet cinema in general and Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) in particular, and it’s possible that Soviet history has something to do with this —- a desire not to ...
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This is a review of the John Waters original (1988) — not the Adam Shankman remake (2007) derived from the Broadway musical, which I haven’t seen. Thanks to the seeming omnipresence of the latter, I found it very difficult to find any stills from the former on the Internet. My review ...
Celebrities
John Waters
This article appeared in the Winter 2008-2009 issue of Film Quarterly. I’m delighted that both of the films I write about here are now available online, although regrettably the current prices for The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein, at least on Amazon, are hefty. My suggestion is to keep ...
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John McCain
This was originally published by the Viennale in 2004 as part of a catalogue (Die Früchte des Zorns und der Zärtlichkeit) accompanying a program of John Ford films selected by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet; it subsequently appeared online in Rouge no. 7 (2005). One can also access Kevin ...
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This review appeared in the March 1975 issue of Monthly Film Bulletin. —J.R.
Saikaku Ichidai Onna (The Life of Oharu)
Japan, 1952 Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
According to scriptwriter Yoda Yoshikata, Mizoguchi’s ...
Television
Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) is not only the greatest of all Japanese filmmakers but arguably the director who made more masterpieces than any other film artist in the history of movies. The 17 features included in the Film Center’s stupendous Mizoguchi retrospective between early January ...
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1. Taking a British Airways morning flight from Edinburgh to London this morning, I was delighted to discover that a tourist-class seat entitles me to a full hot British/Scottish breakfast–omelet, sausages, ham, mushrooms, and potatoes, with coffee served in an old-fashioned ceramic cup, ...
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The following piece appeared in the October 22, 2009 issue of the Chicago Reader. –J.R.
Kiarostami Returns
Jonathan Rosenbaum and Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa discuss the Iranian master’s first film to screen in Chicago since 2002.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum and Mehrnaz ...
