I’m as sensitive and activist-minded as the next guy and am no fan of the torturing that went on during the Bush years. But what got me about this ACLU spot is the off-angle cutting and the mesmerizing faces of Oliver Stone, Phillip Glass, Rosie Perez and Noah Emmerich. None of Emmerich’s performances over the years have inspired any kind of kinship or sympatico, but I suddenly feel cool about the guy because of this video riff. Go figure.
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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