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Close-up: Bud White in LA Confidential
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Studs Lonigan (1960)
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Angel Baby (1995)
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Cry Baby Killer (1958)
Too Soon To Love (1960)
Black Tape (2002)
The Terror (1963)
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Cat People (1942)
Daughters of the Sun (2000)
A Thousand Women Like Me (2000)
Red Cliff (2008)
The Big Combo (1955)
Crimson Gold (2003)
Don't Bother to Knock (1952
Shanghai Gesture (1941)
No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)
Metropolis (1927)
Make Way For Tomorrow (1937)
Heroes For Sale (1933)
Murder By Numbers (2002)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Mother (2009)
Love Crazy (1941)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Mulholland Drive "persona swap"
Three Kings (1999)
Stalker (1979)
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Across the Universe (2007)
Dahmer (2002)
About a Boy (2002)
Johnny Guitar: Texting a review
Memories of Murder (2003)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Yi Yi (2000)
Don't Deliver Us From Evil (1971)
Observe and Report (2009)
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Birth Of a Nation (1915)
What Happened Was... (1994)
Berserk! (1967)
Tyson (2008)
Merrily We Go To Hell (1932)
The Cheat (1931)
Torch Singer (1933)
A Prayer For the Dying (1987)
Only Angels Have Wings: A perfect scene
Siavash (1998)
The look of Rumble Fish
The relationship in 9 1/2 Weeks
Favorite movies A to Z
Atmosphere in Angel Heart
Art direction in Angel Heart
Johnny Handsome (1989)
The Girl In the Sneakers (1999)
Atmosphere in To Have and Have Not
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Ecstasy (1933)
Waking the Dead (2000)
The Great Debaters (2007)
Half Moon (2006)
A Woman's Face (1941)
Hemlock (2000)
The Day I Became a Woman (2000)
Baby Face (1933)
A masterpiece scene in Witness
The Circle (2000)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Deserted Station (2002)
The opening of Only Angels Have Wings
The Rapture (1991)
Leila (1996)
Compulsion (1959)
Offside (2006)
The Cool School (2008)
The Clock (1945)
Kwik Stop (2001)
Love and Basketball (2000)
I Am Legend (2007)
Dunwich Horror (1970)
Penny Serenade (1941)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Persona (1966)
Sudden Fear (1952)
La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Eye of God (1997)
Mr. Lucky (1943)
Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990)
Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Joe Vs. the Volcano (1990)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Four Daughters (1938)
Rotterdam @ BAM reviews
2007 Tribeca Film Festival
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"Talk About the Movie": A Bug's Life and Up
Fully Realized: On Natasha Richardson in Cabaret
Gone Away, Come Back: Mickey Rourke
Indelible Ink: Paul Newman
William Holden: To Live Like a Human Being
Battlefield Bliss: Mongol
5 for the Day: Jeff Bridges
Something's Wrong: The Favor
5 for the Day: Cary Grant
You, the Jury: Joan Crawford, Otto Preminger, and Daisy Kenyon
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