I read the Amazon.com info about Matthew Modine’s ‘Full Metal Jacket Diary” too quickly last weekend. It only cost $20 bucks or a bit more, not $63.
Necessary Reminder About “Fingernails”Posted from Telluride on 9.1.23: The last time I bolted out of a theatre because a character had yanked or...
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Gentle Parenting FableLast night Hollywood Elsewhere sat down with Marc Turtletaub‘s Jules (Bleecker Street), a quiet little fable about a vaguely flaky,...
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Annoying Beefalo on Baltic BeachLast night I drove all the way to Pleasantville’s Jacob Burns Film Center (45 minutes) to see Christian Petzold‘s Afire....
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Irving Pichel’s “Miracle of the Car Window”Three or four weeks ago the driver’s side window in my VW Passat gave up the ghost. It went down...
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Curious Silence From Team WoodyJordan Ruimy is reporting today what most of us have been presuming all along. One, widespread Stalinist obstinacy about Woody...
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Infuriating “Pot au Feu” StasisI’ve been moaning and groaning for weeks about the seemingly unfortunate fate of Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu,...
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