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In praise of Bruce McGill
Johnny Depp's context
Interpreting Lady Macbeth
Claude Rains' "energy"
On Jeff Bridges
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Ease: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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Gena Rowlands staring you down
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The last scene of Notorious
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James D'Arcy in Master & Commander
3 similar stories
In praise of Montgomery Clift
Close-up: Bud White in LA Confidential
Jodie Foster
3 stories about Errol Flynn
Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet
Charles Lane in Sybil
The detail in Dean Stockwell's work
Cary Grant's "Method" performance
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Future Oscar winners: Women
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Humphrey Bogart in Petrified Forest
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The American (2010)
Shirin (2008)
Studs Lonigan (1960)
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Angel Baby (1995)
The Wild Ride (1960)
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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The Movie Experience I Can't Forget
"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
5 for the Day: Dean Stockwell
Appreciation: Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet
5 for the Day: Kate Hepburn
5 for the Day: Life-Changing CriticismNoir of the Week reviews
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Evelyn Waugh
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Katherine Dunn
Oscar Wilde
Rebecca West
Robert Conquest
Elinor Lipman
Tennessee Williams
James Joyce
W.B. Yeats
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Truman Capote
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J.D. Salinger
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Stephen King
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Tag Archives: Block Island
The House On the Hill
Every morning, out on the Island, I would wake up at around 5 a.m., my typical morning ritual. It was still dark out. Freezing. My kitchen window faced north. There was a deep ravine in between my house and the … Continue reading
Somewhere in time
Pretty much everything is closed on Block Island during the winter. In the summer, the place explodes with inns and bars and shops and sandwich places, but in the winter, all of that is scaled back. The grocery store is … Continue reading
“combing the white hair of the waves blown back”
Member my post about plagiarism? Here is what the waves looked like on that windy wild day, and tell me if it’s not the absolute perfect image for what was going on!!
Drowning in green
The wind whipped around my room like a wild beast, rattling the walls, the house literally shaking. I would wake up to find my heavy wooden porch furniture upended by the gales. I slept better this past month than I … Continue reading