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3 similar stories
In praise of Montgomery Clift
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Too Soon To Love (1960)
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
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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)
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Birth Of a Nation (1915)
What Happened Was... (1994)
Berserk! (1967)
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The Cheat (1931)
Torch Singer (1933)
A Prayer For the Dying (1987)
Only Angels Have Wings: A perfect scene
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The look of Rumble Fish
The relationship in 9 1/2 Weeks
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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)
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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
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You, the Jury: Joan Crawford, Otto Preminger, and Daisy Kenyon
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Tag Archives: New York
Crazy Sunset
I took these on 125th Street at the West Harlem Piers, a beautiful new section of Riverside Park, with walkways out into the water, and patches of grass. The sunset that night was crazy, expansive, dramatic. You couldn’t get away … Continue reading
It’s A Pop Tart World; We’re Just Living In It
Having seen the article in the NY Times about the new Pop Tarts World that just opened in Times Square, my friend Michele and I wondered if it took up the old store front (still empty) where the Charmin extravaganza … Continue reading
In the back of the tattoo parlor …
… on St. Mark’s Place.
Bloomsday 2010
Therese and I arrived, books in hand, at the pub where the Bloomsday celebration was being held. Colum McCann was the emcee, and we both were a bit starstruck, although both of us have met him before, on separate occasions. … Continue reading
Anthony Mann’s New York
On my way down to the Bloomsday celebration I was attending with Therese (and it was one for the books, more later) I found myself wandering the streets of the Financial District, an area of town I rarely go to, … Continue reading
The Books: “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry” – Frank O’Hara
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair I’ve moved on from the “Modern” volume, and am now in the “Contemporary” volume. The two volumes are organized … Continue reading
“I’m going to be a while,” I shouted, with the warmth of a Tundra December, “I’ve got myself quite a group here ahead of you, Sir.” I actually wanted to discourage the man from staying. Pretty lousy, right?”
A not-to-be-missed post from one of my favorite bloggers out there. If you know the blog, you know that it is a well-written funny and insightful site about the trials/travails/joys of being a bartender in New York. And sometimes, sometimes, … Continue reading
“What’s this gal’s name again? Oh yeah, Emily Dickinson.”
Bill Murray reads to the construction workers working on the Poet’s House here in Manhattan. Not to be missed. Fantastic. I am proud of my city. I didn’t think it was possible for me to love Bill Murray more than … Continue reading
My favorite roof in Manhattan
Seen from the bar at the Hilton, on 42nd Street, in the first picture below. The Hilton bar is a couple stories up. Normally, my view of this spectacular roof is ground-level, peering up at it from 8th avenue – … Continue reading
At last: Metropolis in my metropolis
I am beyond excited about this. Is it May yet?
The photo is from my trip to ….
….. Narnia? Is that Mr. Tumnus I see in the distance? Nope. It’s Central Park. I have lived here for years, and I still can’t get over the miracle that we actually have a place that looks like this – … Continue reading
The Great Umbrella Massacre of 2010
As I’m sure everyone is well aware (those on the East Coast and not), we had a major storm here yesterday. My mother still doesn’t have power at her house. Brooklyn was power-less. I was on the Jersey Shore yesterday … Continue reading
Spreadin’ the magic
Man, that was fast. My story about the encounter at the Apple store is already listed on the left sidebar of the Apple Store news blog, under the heading “Other Apple News”, and it’s been given the title “Store Love … Continue reading
The Magic Irish Apple
I went to the Apple store today in Chelsea to buy a new MacBook. My current MacBook is literally falling apart at the seams, and I am about to go off on my writing sabbatical, and need new hard (and … Continue reading
The Golden Floating Torso
You see weird things sometimes when you wander around the streets of Manhattan.
Charmin: Enjoy the Go!
A couple of years ago, during a day wandering through Times Square, I found I had to “go”, and bad … and suddenly I was drawn to a new “storefront”, right next to the Virgin Records Store – which appeared … Continue reading
Hangman and Guinness at Ear Inn
A wonderful post about one of my favorite joints in New York: Ear Inn. It’s one of the oldest taverns in New York (and some say it is THE oldest). Beautiful details to the story included in that post, it’s … Continue reading
