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Home viewing: Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock may not have invented the moving image, but he defined what it was capable of. The son of a London grocer, Hitchcock’s career...

A lesson in unintended consequences

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“What about the ROUS?” “Rodents of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.” — Princess Buttercup and Westley in The Princess Bride Bad news Westley, they...

Thou art a symbol and a sign

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Wanting for my happily-ever-after, I lowered my defenses, forgetting the first lesson I was taught: That I was brought into this world to be...

God’s lonely men

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For most, Taxi Driver is summed up by one of the most famous lines in cinema: “You talking to me?” Conveying masculinity and bravado, it readies angry men for battle. But it is misleading. It is an act, a façade. The truth is found in the line that follows: “Well, I’...

War, hot and cold, in ‘Underground’

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Not every movie survives the baptism of time. Even award winners and those end-of-the-year Top Ten movies become buried under years of obsolescence. Which...

Lust at 6,000 feet

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Movies aren’t reality. They’re visual expressions of an emotional experience. The best filmmakers have known this all along, but it’s worth bringing up, as...

‘We don’t get a lot of things to really care about’

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Deep in the Oregonian woods, a man lives with his pig. He is a recluse with a past; she is a Kunekune with a...

Gilda Radner: Her voice and her writing

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There seems to be an endless fascination with the famed Saturday Night Live. While the merits of the weekly television show are continually debated...

She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie

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It sure is fun to be young. Not yet old enough to experience that odd combination of nostalgia and melancholy that plagues most adults,...

Solid cast helps ‘2012’ overcome flaws

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Nothing like a dandy evening's apocalypse to take the edge...

Not a question of where, but why

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Watching movies in 2019 is no longer a question of where, but why. It could be everywhere: Multiplexes, art house theater, film societies, living rooms,...

‘And she was loved!’

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With the wisdom of the wise and the smile of a sage, Toni Morrison sits before the camera. No background behind her, nothing in...