Widower's Tango

Monday, November 29, 2021

Shoot the Piano Player

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In a 1971 interview with Charles Thomas Samuels, François Truffaut got rather defensive when Samuels asked him why he usually adapted trash ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

The Plot Against America

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We knew things were bad," my father told the friends he immediately sat down to phone when we got home, "but not like this. You ha...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

A Divided Life

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We read so we don’t feel so alone. C. S. Lewis - or, rather, Anthony Hopkins playing C. S. Lewis in a film called Shadowlands - said that. ...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Jayne Mansfield's Car

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IN THE JUNK STORE  A small, straw basket  Full of medals  From good old wars  No one recalls.  I flipped one over  To feel the pin  That onc...
Friday, November 5, 2021

The Story of a Three Day Pass

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Melvin Van Peebles died on September 21 at the age of 89. His contributions to film, I thought, had been limited to the so-called “blaxploit...
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Whistle and I'll Come To You (1968)

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The colonel, who remembered a not very dissimilar occurrence in India, was of opinion that if Parkins had closed with it it could really hav...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

The Thing From Another World

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It is useless to judge a movie that belongs to a specific genre according to the standards of a different genre. What is required of a comed...
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