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The filmmaker too tough to die

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Few filmmakers are as devoted to cinema as Alex Cox. Since his debut in 1984, Cox has made movies for the studios, for BBC’s...

An embarrassment of riches

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Every year is a great year for the movies, but when was the best? Was it 1939, the year Hollywood gave us The Wizard...

Getting women in the room

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Maybe it comes as no surprise, but sexism is alive and well in the film industry. Women filmmakers are often forced into alternative methods...

‘Ong Bak 2’: Thai fighters

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Bruce Lee is dead, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are slowing down, but the world of martial arts never sleeps. Keeping everyone awake these days is Tony Jaa, Thailand’s biggest action hero, who returns to inflict more damage in Ong Bak 2: The Beginning...

From a second-rate Bette Davis to a first-rate auteur

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They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe that’s not evident upon first glance — certainly not...

A perfect gentleman

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Fading Gigolo, which opened The Boulder International Film Festival in February and is now enjoying a theatrical run, begins in a truly unexpected fashion: a pimp and his hoe discussing business while packing up a used bookstore. The pimp, Murray (Woody Allen), ...

Love in all the wrong places

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William (Gethin Anthony) is 28, loud, abrasive and generally unpleasant to be around. He yells, swears, leers, drinks too much and thinks too little. He is your typical obnoxious American abroad, both to the fine people of Demark and to his two traveling companions. ...

A star is born

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One of the many pleasures of going to the movies is the discovery of new ideas, new voices and new faces. Last weekend, that...

Hail to the chin, baby

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He may not command the salary of Tom Cruise or Leonardo DiCaprio, but for a large percentage of moviegoers, he is just as essential...

Home viewing: Silent clowns

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It’s mid-June, which means we ought to be full swing into Chautauqua’s Summer of Silents — the annual celebration of cinema sans dialogue. And...

‘Hello, My Name is Doris’ connects generations

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In the conventional sense, Doris (Sally Field) is a spinster. She lives in the same Staten Island house she grew up in — with...

Streaming sports

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It’s the third Thursday in March, and under normal circumstances, we’d be steeped in March Madness right now. You’re probably reading this at home. And not because you...