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Jon Lanthier
in issue 66
Film and Film and Film: An Interview with Jonas Mekas
"One who knows how to, as they say, 'read' the images, can tell everything about me."
By Jon Lanthier
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber, edited by Robert Politot
By Jon Lanthier
in issue 65
An Atheist's Guide to Wise Blood: The Doctrine of the Auto-Redemptionist — "It's almost as if The Misfit himself were behind the camera."
in issue 63
Books: "Have You Seen . . . ?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, by David Thomson
in issue 62
Linda, Harry, and the Pseudo-Screw: Burn After Reading: The Coen Brothers' DC Story — Burn After Reading holds the notable distinction of being the only screwball comedy to leave all of its characters either moderately satisfied or dead."
Film Criticism as a Man's Job: A Belated Look at the Legacy of Manny Farber — "Farber's writing is the pure antithesis of academic — ornately sophisticated with a vernacular punch, stuffed with contradictory statements and astounding paradoxes."
in issue 61
To Slap a Dame: Sexual Violence in the Age of Reason — "Skip is the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other."
