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The Mystery of the Great Pyramid
Turn your watch, turn your watch back about a hundred thousand years. I’ll meet you by the third pyramid Ah come on, that’s what I want —The B-52s There is a terrifying shot in Land of the Pharaohs....
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Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato
Les Vampires One of the reliable highlights of Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival is its slate of centennial programs. While the major American productions—The Birth of a Nation and The Cheat—were...
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Interview: Pedro Costa
Horse Money is the long-awaited new feature from Pedro Costa, who casts Ventura (Colossal Youth) again to play a version of himself, alongside Vitalina Varela. A portion of the film previously...
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Deep Focus: Southpaw
Jake Gyllenhaal is a gutsy, sophisticated performer, but his boxer hero in Southpaw fights like a crude Method actor. Named Billy Hope—presumably because he uses his fists like billy clubs and stands...
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Frank at 100: Sinatra on Screen
The Man With the Golden Arm recording session, 1955 When I was 17, it was a very good year—though I was probably closer to 14. Like any discerning middle-schooler in the late Nineties, I listened to...
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Bombast: Where Were You in ’82?
The Decline of Western Civilization Most of the subjects of The Decline of Western Civilization, Penelope Spheeris’s 1981 boots-and-braces-on-the-ground documentary on Southern California hardcore,...
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Film of the Week: The Look of Silence
The recent trial of 93-year-old former SS guard Oskar Gröning has reanimated long-running debates about justice, reconciliation, and the necessity or usefulness of prosecuting war criminals who have...
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Kaiju Shakedown: The Naked Movies
Naked Killer Suspense synthesizers squeal on the soundtrack as a woman in a poufy orange top, invisible miniskirt, and high-fashion hat clip-clops nervously down empty, blue-lit Hong Kong streets....
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