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Let that word simmer for a moment. It is the answer to a question I have long asked, in relation to the relentless puerilization of American cinema over the last 3 decades. The question was: will there be a next great adult filmmaker (in the John Cassavetes, not porno, mold) to come along? Well, he’s here, and his name is Steve McQueen, and I suspect that once his film career is at an end no one will be confusing him with the dead white American male film star of the 1960s and 1970s, for this black British director is now 2 for 2 in releasing great art to the masses. In my review of his first film......
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The noble United States Marine Corps has a very red face. There is that video which shows four Marines urinating on three insurgent corpses. There is outrage and horror and consternation among those who are in the “winning hearts and minds” business—especially with talks with the Taliban imminent, as well as those charged with taking a fat kid from the city, this kid through boot camp, and turning him or her into one of the finest fighters in the U.S. military. This video certainly shows us as Ugly Americans, but its core feature is the reality check the Marines have, up ‘til now, been mostly free from facing: the gray miasma which is our culture.....
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the 1969 kaiju film
I’ve seen thousands of films. Not as many as most remunerated film critics, but quite a bit more than your average filmgoer. And in all those films, across genres, decades, screenwriters, nationalities, directors, there are only two films that I can think of that truly get inside how a child reacts and thinks. Note, I am not claiming films that well portrayed childhood, such as a modern family classic like My Dog Skip, amongst that lot. Although, it is itself an arguably great film, that film, for all its virtues, was told in a rather conventional manner. No, the two films that best penetrate a child’s mind are actually both B science fiction films, and both are sequels. The first is Robert Wise’s 1944 debut directorial effort, the black and white The Curse Of The Cat People, and the second is 1969’s mere 69 minute long color film, Godzilla’s Revenge ....
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Elmer Kelton'ss 2007 memoir
On a recent trip to San Angelo, Texas, my wife and I were introduced to the name and persona of Western writer and Texas journalist Elmer Kelton. Well, introduced is a mite too passive a term, for in San Angelo- Kelton’s adopted hometown, one simply cannot avoid the man- his image is on billboards andsides of buildings, and his books take up whole shelves at local bookstores where the man, dead a few years, was a local legend and cottage industry. In one such store, the Cactus Book Shop, after talk and inquiries by me to the establishment’s owner, I decided to take the plunge....
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