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May 22, 2021
Eric Rohmer, the great French moviemaker, was a sly but sympathetic observer of human folly, forever attentive to the ways…
August 7, 2009
I can't say I was a big fan of John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club—though, to be fair,…
June 25, 2009
My condolences to the family and friends of Farrah Fawcett, who lost her long battle to cancer today.
June 4, 2009
David Carradine worked with everyone from Ingmar Bergman to Quentin Tarantino, Charlton Heston to Chuck Norris, Paul Bartel to Martin…
March 30, 2009
Seventeen years ago, while dining with movie score composer Maurice Jarre at the Montreal World Film Festival, I told him…
February 10, 2009
Character actor par excellence James Whitmore had dozens upon dozens of film and TV credits on his lengthy resume—everything from…
January 16, 2009
I Sell The Dead is far from your typical horror movie. In the words of writer-directo, Glenn McQuaid, it’s “an
April 7, 2008
Back in the early 1980s, at the time when he and Ed Asner were very publicly clashing over matters concerning…
June 27, 2003
I opened the sunday times and there they were—the piercing blue eyes staring back at me with that “let’s-get-it-right” gaze.
January 24, 2003
You skipped ‘motherfucker,'” Andre de Toth alerted me. Unfamiliar with his Dell laptop, I found the cursor and scrolled back.