”We make a point not to be too, you know, Teutonically deep,“ says Margit Kleinman before bursting into a characteristically cheerful laugh in her bright
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>> Witness the predicament of the contemporary video gamer: ”I have a problem that I have dubbed Max Payne Syndrome. Whenever I walk back from gym class, I tak
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The great science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick once asked, in the title of a novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The novel, which eventually became the basi
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Future film students will be able to write thick dissertations on Samuel L. Jackson’s silver-screen hairstyles, com
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Early on in the Japanese animated film Princess Mononoke, a monk soaked in street-hustler wiliness admonishes the young warrior Ashitaka with the observation that &#
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The Thin Red Line opens with the image of a crocodile slithering into the water and closes with a still life of a newly sprouted coconut tr
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It's been 20 years since the release of John Carpenter's Halloween: the film that made us reconsider the American kitchen as something more than the reposito
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“This is what Sundance is about,” an agent who had just snagged a multipicture deal with Miramax for first-time film-
maker Chris Cherot (whose prophetic
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