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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Where have all the poor people gone? As our government is on the verge of shutdown, nearly 10% unemployed and tons more under-employed, one would think that the cinematic landscape would be filled with throngs of characters struggling to pay … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Film
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Debt Ceiling Apocalypse Recommendation: The Road Warrior
As the United States lurches closer and closer to defaulting on its financial obligations, various scenarios about what will occur abound. One of the more common words that I have heard associated with any potential default that results from a … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Film
Tagged debt ceiling, leather, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mel Gibson
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F for Fake
Whenever discussing Orson Welles’ final masterpiece, F for Fake, I’m reminded of Rembrandt, his great painting “The Polish Rider,” and one of his contemporaries, the lesser-known Willem Drost. “The Polish Rider” is fascinating late work from Rembrandt and has been … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Film, Reviews
Tagged Aviator, Bust of a Man wearing a Large-Brimmed Beret, Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane, Clifford Irvin, Elmyr de Hory, F for Fake, François Reichenbach, Georges Méliès, Gerbrandt ver den Eeckhout, Giorgione, Gregory Arkadin, Hank Quinlan, Herman Mankiewicz, Howard Hughes, Illusions Fantasmagoriques, Joseph Cotton, Le Magicien, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matisse, Modigliani, Oja Kodar, Orson Welles, Pauline Kael, Pierre Crozat, Polish Rider, Portrait of a Young Woman with her Hands Folded on a Book, Prophetess Anna Instructing a Child, Raising Kane, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Renoir, Richard Wilson, War of the Worlds, Willem Drost, Xanadu
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A really bad summer movie season = really enjoyable film reviews
I have not seen the tide turn on what most film observers have portrayed as a fairly dismal summer movie season. Did I say dismal? I meant atrocious. And that is not me saying that because I have not yet … Continue reading
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