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Why Are So Many People Still Protective of Woody Allen?
Ronan and Mia Farrow took to Twitter to express their outrage after the director was honored at Sunday’s Golden Globes, but why hasn’t he gotten more grief from the film-world establishment?
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Pope Francis’s “Cardinal” Rules
Thinking about Otto Preminger’s film 50 years later in the context of Pope Francis.
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Peter O’Toole, Always in Character
The actor, who died earlier this week at the age of 81, turned every role into a feat of concentrated charm and wit.
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“Spring Breakers” Was the Best Movie of the Year. Seriously.
It was imbecilic but gorgeous—just like America.
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The Coen Brothers’ Goodbye Song
Inside Llewyn Davis deepens the duo’s turn from satire to elegy
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Another Note for the Bettie Page Files
A new documentary, Bettie Page Reveals All, provides not only a bonanza of images of the proto-hipster pinup girl in her prime, but her later-in-life musings as well.
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The Seven Stages of Important Black Film Fatigue
For the black filmgoer, movies like 12 Years a Slave aren’t mere popcorn fare—anger, annoyance, and vulnerability often follow when history is commodified by Hollywood.
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Royal Rumble: Academics vs. Film Critics
A Twitter tussle over Ben Urwand’s book The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact With Hitler is emblematic of the battle being waged by popular critics and ivory-tower dwellers for control over the cultural narrative.
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Restorative Justice’s After-School Special
The documentary Growing Fairness aims to train an army of educators set on using restorative justice instead of punishment when dealing with high-school kids.