From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com
— David Hudson, IFC.com
Tom Sutpen
Boston, MA, USA
When not writing about film, Tom Sutpen produces community television in the Greater Boston area and collects Jean Goldkette recordings.
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Cinema's supreme pictorialist surrenders to "the cop on the beat"
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"The great legal scholar Lenny Bruce once observed that
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Watkins' savaging of commodified culture remains disturbingly relevant
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We loved him, we loved him not
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Watkins' savaging of commodified culture remains disturbingly relevant
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This missing noir masterpiece enters the canon in first place
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"Going on stage would've been awfully redundant"
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masterpiece, The Servant (BLFJ 48 – May 2005)
They also serve who only stand and annihilate
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