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November 9, 2012November 9, 2012 - Uncategorized

Feature Friday: “Providence” (1977)

It turns out there’s a very beautiful copy up at YouTube. (I’d been looking for one for a while.) This…

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November 2, 2012November 2, 2012 - Uncategorized

Feature Friday: “Hiroshima mon amour” (1959)

Jeremy M. Davies’s Rose Alley has been on my mind as of late, so this one’s for him. I asked…

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April 13, 2012April 27, 2012 - Uncategorized

Feature Friday: “Syndromes and a Century” (2006)

Easily one of the best films of the past seven years, by one of the greatest living filmmakers, Apichatapong Weerasethakul.…

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June 20, 2011July 11, 2011 - Uncategorized

A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)

[Last weekend, en route to Madagascar, Jeremy M. Davies swung by my Chicago atelier to hear my neighbor perform Mahler’s…

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December 20, 2010 - Uncategorized

Features

Noticing last September that the Features section of this site was blank, I began embedding there feature-length films that are…

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November 14, 2010June 17, 2012 - Uncategorized

Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)

[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor…

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July 22, 2010 - Uncategorized

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