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Sunday, April 12, 2020

Waterways: Jean Renoir's "The River"

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Late in Jean Renoir's first technicolor film "The River", a tragedy strikes the British family living in India's wonderlan...
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Sunday, March 08, 2020

On "The Traitor"

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One might mistake the first third of Marco Bellocchio's latest film "The Traitor" as something produced from the Bruckheimer f...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The Current Cinema 20.1

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Gretel and Hansel Compact and atmospheric, Osgood Perkins' "Gretel and Hansel" is remarkable for the way it chokes subdue...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

Immigrant Reform: Anthony Mann's "Border Incident"

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Like many of his contemporaries, director Anthony Mann's filmography swept across the decades of Hollywood's evolution from the ...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Moments of 2019

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Inspired by the now defunct Film Comment "Moments Out of Time" series and the great Roger Ebert's year end recap, this Moments...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

My Faves of 2019

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20. Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie) Assuredly building a body of work that rings every ounce of desperation, energy and intense mo...
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Monday, December 30, 2019

Retro Active: The Best Non 2019 Films I Saw in 2019

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10. Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?  (2017) - Documentarian Travis Wilkerson's explorations into history and first person involvemen...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Very Vinyl: My Favorite Music of 2019

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Definitely growing stronger as it goes along (ending with the haunting cosmic jazz of the song featured above), Bon Iver's "I,I...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2019

Moral Relationships: Eric Rohmer's "My Night At Maud's"

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Coming of cinematic sensibility and lumped in with the French New Wave of the 50's and 60's, filmmaker Eric Rohmer always seemed to ...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

On "The Irishman"

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With his previous film "Silence" (2016) and now "The Irishman", Scorsese has certainly entered his pensive period and, a...
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Thursday, November 07, 2019

The Current Cinema 19.6

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The Current War Broaching a subject matter close to my heart (just try and tear me away from gilded age history books and my 4 differ...
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Joe Baker
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Freelance writer, film enthusiast, contributor to DallasFilmNow.com
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