Book Reviews
Forget It, Jake
At a preview screening of the film Chinatown in summer 1974, an official from the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is reported to have remarked, […]
Film
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Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge!’
A bright, white light was shrouding my vision. The thundering applause from several thousand hands was engulfing my hearing. All I could feel was the thumping of my heart as the adrenalin was coursing through my veins like a tidal wave. […]
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Expressionist Portrait of a Serial Killer
From a black screen, a circle of children fades in and the little girl at its center sings a counting out song: Just you wait it won’t be long, The man in black will soon be here, […]
This Quarter in Film History
In Like Flynt
Director Miloš Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt premiered 20 years ago, on October 13, 1996, the closing night of the New York Film Festival. […]
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Suzy Elmiger on ‘Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle’
Most directors strive to set a tone on their movie sets. Director Alan Rudolph, however, establishes the mood before the cameras roll. […]
Columns
Sex, Race and Rock ’n’ Roll
by Edward Landler Audiences first heard the nascent Rock ‘n’ Roll music in the movies in March 1955, when Bill […]
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Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy
by Barbara Pokras, ACE I was lost. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. It […]
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Murder Is His Business
Seventy years ago, on April 11, 1947, Charles Chaplin — one of the central figures of world cinema and as influential to the art of moviemaking as to the establishment of the Hollywood film industry — premiered his latest film, Monsieur Verdoux (subtitled A Comedy of Murders) at the Broadway Theatre in New York City and at the Academy Award Theatre in Los Angeles. […]
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Wendy Greene Bricmont on ‘Annie Hall’
In the countless comedies he has written, directed and starred in during his 50-year career, Woody Allen comes across as a chatterbox. His on-screen persona is forever opining, grousing or whining about one thing or another. […]
Columns
The Ladies of the Footlights Club
Director Gregory La Cava introduced moviegoers to a host of energetic young women living together in a theatrical boarding house, struggling for survival and stardom on the New York stage, when his “Stage Door” premiered in San Francisco 80 years ago, on October 6, 1937. […]
