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B-Roll: Lonely Are The Brave (Cowboys)

Feb 15, 2017 Nathanael Hood 0

Usually when we refer to neo-Westerns, we mean movies that transplant the themes and iconography of the Western genre into modern day settings. Usually these themes—Manifest Destiny, the struggle between wilderness and civilization, man’s ability […]

How to Fight Loneliness: John Cassavetes’s A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Nov 27, 2013 Drew Morton 3

Over the past couple weeks, we’ve dissected the first two films in the new Blu-Ray reissue of Criterion’s John Cassavetes: Five Films. I noted in my review of Faces (1968) that most viewers will need a couple days […]