My friend Ira Hozinsky reports that the Peckinpah series, "The Westerner," is going to be shown on The Westerns Channel. Very good news indeed. See below. G ...
Don't know if any of you saw this announcement on other lists but it should be of interest. g Our talk of justice is empty until the largest battleship has...
... The rules for being able to watch the whole screen have always been the same, as our eyes havn't developed that much over the last century. The formula for...
Thanks for such fascinating interviews, Peter. l'm still pondering Norman Lloyd's remark about Chaplin having brought us the immigrant-- a profound piece of...
That's it exactly. The scene has been playing in my head for weeks... but in my head everyone was Mexican. Thanks. ... __________________________________ Do...
Vern isn't the most polite film critic on the planet, but I think he's some kind of genius and I don't expect anyone to write a stronger review of FAHRENHEIT...
I've just seen it and I really dont know where to begin, but I wouldn't begin with that review. Its horrible, nothing but bad language to sound smart. He...
... Are you talking about the film or the review I posted? Because I don't recall anywhere in the review where he calls the reader a fucking retard. Did you...
... wrote: . ... center ... Henrik Good advice, as reasonable as wearing sensible shoes. However the practice among cinephiles of my generation was (and still...
... Actually, as I learned from a friend's father when I was in high school, that the best place to sit is in the far back left hand corner of the theater...
... <henrik_sylow@h...> ... school, ... the ... The best place to sit in the theater, if it's a film you're seeing again for the sake of critical reassessment,...
... Jaime, I think you're posting a Vern review in the wrong group. Without a proper introduction to the conceptual art project that is Outlaw Vern's Reviews...
Can someone give a brief description of Outlaw Vern's concept? As rants, I suppose the reviews are furious enough. But as film criticism, they're terrible. ...
... is ... It's true that Vern's work may not be the best fit for this group, but I just felt that the review deserves to be read. Rough edges (that I presume...
... After the show we agreed that a lot of the objections ... JP - I had screwed up on my typing last time and referred to you as JC, sorry- would that defense...
... row ... Bob Kalish: if I have the right guy, he promised me tapes of Andre de Toth's five Hungarian features, and promptly forgot about it. Later I was...
... wrote: ... JC, ... do ... you ... Unfortunately not. No one wanted to read a defense of Heaven's Gate in the US at the time, and it didn't even occur to me...
... York ... matter ... row ... YES! It's Bob indeed! He no longer sits on the floor? If you see him say hello from me. I think he should join our group, but I...
In any case thanks for linking that essay. Reading the first paragraph of it, I don't know if it's brilliant, but it has chutzpah. Personally I've gotten the...
... first- ... Hey Jaime it's really a small world! I mention anonymously a friend who used to sit first row in New York and both you and Dan come up with his...
Never heard of this Vern guy, but he sounds like a libertarian version of Jimmy Kimmel. Me likes. ... Hey, I thought "the art of the Films of the Cinema" was...
... I've never seen him sit on the floor, but then I'm usually a few rows further back, and don't watch his movements carefully.... I know him slightly - I'll...
Thanks for the Klawans review, Kevin -- Stewart is a very good film critic, and I too rarely get to read him. I fear CdC will probably trounce F911....
A year when the top-grossing American film so far is in a foreign language with subtitles, and a documentary breaks box office records and outgrosses all other...
... records SHRED 2, Kev. My favorites, some of which I've written about on a_film_by: 1 KILL BILL, VOL. 2 (Quentin Tarantino) 2 ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE...
... Do you think it's that they are taken the cue given by JL GODard's comments during Cannes? Among the many things that bugged me about Armond White's essay ...
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