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Crossing the Line: Eric Rohmer, 1920 – 2010

Eric Rohmer, the great French moviemaker, was a sly but sympathetic observer of human folly, forever attentive to the ways…

3 years ago
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Crossing the Line: John Hughes, 1950 – 2009

I can't say I was a big fan of John Hughes' Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club—though, to be fair,…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Farrah Fawcett, 1947 – 2009

My condolences to the family and friends of Farrah Fawcett, who lost her long battle to cancer today. I know…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: David Carradine, 1936-2009

David Carradine worked with everyone from Ingmar Bergman to Quentin Tarantino, Charlton Heston to Chuck Norris, Paul Bartel to Martin…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Maurice Jarre, 1924 – 2009

Seventeen years ago, while dining with movie score composer Maurice Jarre at the Montreal World Film Festival, I told him…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: James Whitmore, 1921 – 2009

Character actor par excellence James Whitmore had dozens upon dozens of film and TV credits on his lengthy resume—everything from…

15 years ago
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Glenn McQuaid Sells The Dead

I Sell The Dead is far from your typical horror movie. In the words of writer-directo, Glenn McQuaid, it’s “an…

15 years ago
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Crossing the Line: Charlton Heston, 1923 – 2008

Back in the early 1980s, at the time when he and Ed Asner were very publicly clashing over matters concerning…

16 years ago
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My Time with Frankenheimer

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.…

21 years ago
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Andre De Toth

You skipped 'motherfucker,'" Andre de Toth alerted me. Unfamiliar with his Dell laptop, I found the cursor and scrolled back.…

21 years ago