What's so funny about critics, taste and Marienbad?

" None of us can ever retrieve that innocence before all theory when art knew no need to justify itself, when one did not ask of a wo...

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“Can’t you say ‘Yes, sir’ without making it sound like an insult?”

By Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. Group Theatre playwright Sidney Kingsley established his reputation in the 1930s with plays that focused on controve...

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The Beautiful American

By Eddie Selover Why isn’t Dodsworth better known, even among film buffs? It premiered 75 years ago, in 1936 — a great year for movies — an...

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"I get paid for killing and this town is full of people who deserve to die."

By Edward Copeland The title of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo fills nearly the entire expanse of its Tohoscope 2.35: 1 image in Japanese cha...

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