If it’s difficult for female directors in Hollywood now, it was almost impossible in the…
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While the “Golden Age” is mostly used now by DC and Marvel to milk nostalgia…
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I still haven’t seen The Departed. I’m sure it’s good, or at least competent, and…
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Fritz Lang’s German films are often called “art films” by American critics and exhibitors, largely…
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“People don’t talk to me like that!” In both 1946 Raymond Chandler adaptations, a woman…
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In the 1970s, conservative American mythologies confronted historical realities. The Mai Lai massacre, the Kent…
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Hitman’s balance of the silly and the deadly serious tipped more towards comedy in the…
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A year ago, I talked about the paradoxes that drive The Boys author Garth Ennis’s…
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Yasujirō Ozu has earned his place in film history as the most serene of directors,…
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One of the most famous lines in the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning Fargo comes close to…
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