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It Don’t Come Easy


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Sure, Jack Nicholson’s famous “chicken salad sandwich” diner scene (filmed outside Eugene!) gets all the love, but the best moments in Five Easy Pieces come at the ending. (If you ca ...   More
 
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 AARON MESH

Coming Attractions


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The latest instance of a preview reel as its own feature, Jacques Boyreau’s Trailer-Mania doesn’t challenge Dan Halsted’s Grindhouse Trailer Spectacular for obscure finds; most of th ...   More
 
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 AARON MESH

Car Toys


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Chronicling roadside Americana that technically is on the road, Automorphosis extends out of director Harrod Blank’s hobby of adorning his own Volkswagen Beetle with plaster chickens and a spinn ...   More
 
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 AARON MESH

Men At Work


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If you’ve seen even five minutes of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, the subsequent hyper-macho careers of Guy Pearce and Hugo Weaving seem like a vaguely hilarious form of ove ...   More
 
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 AARON MESH

Major Bonding


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These days, James Bond has to have motivation for his violent actions and casual seductions. But nearly a half-century ago, a tux-clad Sean Connery just shot at baddies and face-sucked sexy foreign la ...   More
 
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 KELLY CLARKE

I Do Deny Them My Essence


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Peter Sellers may hog all the glory for playing three roles in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, but it’s Sterling Hayden’s Gen. Jack D. Ripper who kee ...   More
 
Wednesday, June 2, 2010 AARON MESH

Dear Florence


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Initial reviews of Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg (including mine) mostly ignored the fact that the movie opens not with Ben Stiller’s titular master of resentment, but with a 10-minute observa ...   More
 
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 AARON MESH

Fowley Beast


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“Jail-fucking-bait! Jack-fucking-pot!” Kim Fowley’s glee over discovering Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) isn’t justified by The Runaways—the movie is far too tame for som ...   More
 
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 AARON MESH

Run, Limey, Run


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When the voters in a British Film Institute survey named The 39 Steps the fourth-greatest British film of all time, they surely considered its stylistic importance (it cemented Alfred Hitchcock’ ...   More
 
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 BEN WATERHOUSE

Unruffled


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For Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese has finally found an actor who commands the screen with as magnetic a presence as his ’70s leads. The problem is that it’s not Leonardo DiCaprio, the m ...   More
 
Wednesday, May 5, 2010 AARON MESH
 

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