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Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Marlowe and Boston Strangler: Mythologies

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Jessica Lange in Marlowe . The Irish writer John Banville’s The Black-Eyed Blonde , published in 2014 and the source of the new Neil Jordan ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Neglected Gem: The Suspect (1944)

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Charles Laughton in The Suspect (1944). Robert Siodmak began his filmmaking career in Germany, hot-footed it to France when Hitler came to ...
Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Ahab and Quixote: The Endless Search

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(Courtesy Ecco Press/Harper Collins);(Wordsworth Editions) “Tell me your company, and I will tell you what you are.” – Sancho Panza, Don Qui...
Monday, March 6, 2023

Martin McDonagh, Almost Reformed: The Banshees of Inisherin

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Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in The Banshees of Inisherin . Set on an island off the coast of Ireland in the early 1920s, the era of th...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Empire of Light: Something Remains

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 Olivia Colman in Sam Mendes's Empire of Light . In Sam Mendes ’s Empire of Light , Olivia Colman plays Hilary, the assistant manager o...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Literary Remakes: Pinocchio, All Quiet on the Western Front and Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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Federico Ielapi as Pinocchio and Marine Vacth as The Blue Fairy in Matteo Garrone's Pinocchio (2019). Those with fond memories of the 1...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In Near You: An Interview with Charles Taylor

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Author and film critic Charles Taylor. (Photo: Lelia McCabe) I've long been a fan of 1970s American movies,  a time when American cinem...