There’s a reason I’ve had some good pictures and other guys will never have good pictures,” Sidney Lumet says matter-of-factly on a recent afternoon in his New
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Named for the spot in Christian-fundamentalist hell where sinners are condemned to spend eternity, Tony Kaye’s Lake of Fire is a provocatively beautiful movie on t
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Forty years ago this year, former Esquire magazine art director Robert Benton began his film career by co-writing, with David Newman, a little movie called Bonnie an
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The universe of Jean-Pierre Melville is so specific to the movies that it verges on abstraction. The sun rarely shines and the universe weeps when tough guys die. Le
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1. Balls of Fury is a movie about:
a. A former table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground pingpong tourname
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The extremes of teen angst were on display during last weekend’s pop-culture onslaught in the forms of Disney heartthrob Zac Efron and the Superbad duo of Jonah Hi
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Back in 1995, Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise gave flesh to a Yank’s fantasy of worldly European womanhood: Julie Delpy’s Celine, a sprite who materialized
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Life is a mixture of happy and sad things. Movies are so lifelike — that’s why we love them.”
Then who needs movies? Just stay home and live life.”
My uncle
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HBO’s viewership can be forgiven if they feel a queasy kind of psychological seesaw effect from the current Sunday-night lineup of The Sopranos followed by En
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Clifford Irving almost got away with it. Exactly 35 years ago, his sham autobiography of Howard Hughes nearly made it into bookstores before the reclusive billionai
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In an early scene from the Thanksgiving Day special movie presentation of Cartoon Network’s popular animated series Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, we final
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Earlier this year, the Aero Theater presented a 70mm screening and panel discussion of SF classic Forbidden Planet (1956). The organizers put on a good show, lining
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