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Month: January 2014

Books

The Bookshelf: Glen David Gold’s SUNNYSIDE

Jan 31, 2014 The Retro Set 0

Sunnyside (Knopf, 576 pages, $26.95) By Glen David Gold The same brand of white-hot prose and ever-so-clever historical fudging that made Glen David Gold’s magical Carter Beats the Devil, a critical and popular smash, is […]

Events

Sundance: Women “In” on the Fart Joke, Striking With Body Comedy in Appropriate Behavior and Obvious Child

Jan 28, 2014 Diana Drumm 1

Women have bodies. Women make jokes. Women appreciate observational comedy. Women are funny. God damn it. Then why do I still feel compelled to spell all of that out? Why do we of the female […]

Events

Sundance: Creative Madness Dethroned in Frank and Listen Up Philip

Jan 27, 2014 Diana Drumm 1

A writer sits down at their typewriter with horn-rimmed eyeglasses sliding down their nose, a cigarette behind their right ear and a tumbler of Scotch within arm’s length. They type a few words, typical nonsense […]

Events

Sundance Review: A Most Wanted Man

Jan 24, 2014 Diana Drumm 0

Following the critical success of The American and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and boasting a cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams and Willem Dafoe, critics lined up this past Friday (with more than a few disgruntled […]

Movies

William Holden in The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

Jan 23, 2014 Wade Sheeler 0

In The Counterfeit Traitor, we meet a very familiar William Holden, the same morally ambiguous rogue who helped his fellow officers only after being beaten for suspected Nazi ties in Stalag 17; the same POW […]

Movies

Criterion Blu-Ray Review: Thief (1981)

Jan 22, 2014 Drew Morton 0

By Drew Morton Michael Mann’s Thief (1981) — his theatrical debut — not only expresses many of his preoccupations on a small canvas but stands as one of his best films.  An auteur of masculine […]

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