Stories By Rustin Thompson
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Articles - Distribution
Dirty Harry: Revisited
May 30, 2008Warner Bros. is celebrating its 85th anniversary with something they are calling the Dirty Harry Ultimate...
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Articles - Distribution
Gambling on Poker Movies
March 28, 2008Blackjack may be the game of choice in Robert Luketic’s 21, which hits theaters today. But...
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Articles - Moviemaking
Top 10 Films of 2007
January 8, 2008Longtime MM contributor and “Short Takes” blog author Rus Thompson shares his picks for the 10...
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Blog - Rus Thompson's Short Takes
Rus Thompson’s Short Takes: December 2007
December 7, 2007Favorite of the Month: Jesus of Montreal (1989) This French Canadian film is a witty and...
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Blog - Rus Thompson's Short Takes
Rus Thompson’s Short Takes: November 2007
November 6, 2007Favorite of the month: The TV Set (2007) What could be more fun than watching Sigourney...
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Blog - Rus Thompson's Short Takes
Rus Thompson’s Short Takes: October 2007
October 16, 2007Favorite of the Month: The Lives of Others (2006) A story of surveillance and intrigue set...
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Articles - Directing
Robert Greenwald
September 23, 2004Rupert Murdoch, George W. Bush and Al Franken “star” in Robert Greenwald’s Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War...
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Articles - Directing
Poker Movies
January 28, 2004Robert Shaw, Robert Redford and Paul Newman aren’t all in on The Sting (1973), directed by...
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Articles - Directing
The Best of Steve McQueen
November 8, 1999Bullitt Something always Ate at Steve McQueen. Jabbed at him, circled him, closed in. Some kind...
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Articles - Directing
Haskell Wexler
September 11, 1999Wexler (right): Even his lesser films are well worth watching. WHEN HASKELL WEXLER WON the 1966...
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Articles - Directing
Will the Writers Rescue Hollywood?
April 14, 1999Reversal of Fortune (1990) For decades studio executives have searched for a fool-proof money- making formula,...
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Articles - Directing
Paul Schrader
April 5, 1999With Nick Nolte on the set of Affliction. Every film Paul Schrader has ever made has...
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Articles - Crossing the Line
Stanley Kubrick Crosses the Line
April 1, 1999“Kubrick can’t die,” said Carmen Ficarra, my friend and fellow writer for this magazine, “because every...
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Articles - Directing
Beauty Beneath the Brutality: Japanese Masters Mizoguchi and Ozu
December 1, 1998The press nicknamed him "The Emperor," and when Akira Kurosawa died in September, his seat on...
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Articles - Directing
Myth-making With Natural Light
July 1, 1998Almendros in Action. When I think of cinematographer Nestor Almendros’s work on Sophie’s Choice, I see...
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Articles - Directing
Rus Raves and Rants
April 4, 1998Cyclo The Best Cyclo – There is not a wasted image in this film from Vietnamese...
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Articles - Directing
Bergman’s Women
July 1, 1997A couple of months ago I began an alphabetical journey through the work of the world’s...
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Articles - Directing
Crooks, Psychos and Soldiers: the Cinema of Sam Fuller
June 1, 1996The first scene should give you a woody: Sam on The Big One. In the new...
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Articles - Directing
The Reformation of a Rebel Without a Crew
September 2, 1995With Banderas on Desperados: Don’t wash your problems away with a money hose, do it with...
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Articles - Directing
Five Fabulous Film Fatales
June 1, 1995Jane Campion, director of An Angel at my Table. Jane Campion, Agnieszka Holland, Nancy Savoca, Gillian...
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Articles - Directing
John Cassavetes
April 9, 1995John Cassavetes once said, “This picture, this picture—I don’t give a fuck what anybody says. If you...
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Articles - Directing
Raising Cain with Abel Ferrara
January 2, 1995"We’ve got to eat away at ourselves until there’s nothing left but appetite." So says one...
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Articles - Directing
Bloody Sam’s Misogynistic Vision
September 8, 1994According to a recent New Yorker profile, the door to director Oliver Stone’s office is decorated...
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