Josh Rosenblatt
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Life Or Nothing Like It
Byington’s latest employs a rigid devotion to deadpan, keeping the story’s humanity at a safe and manageable distance, locked behind walls of dispassion. Full Story -
What’s the Frequency, Terrence? Malick Returns With To the Wonder
Maybe it’s best after all that Malick wait years between movies. Full Story -
Portrait of Wally Recounts Sordid History of Egon Schiele’s Painting of his Muse
Schiele painted “Portrait of Wally” in 1912. In it, the artist’s mistress and muse, Valerie “Wally” Neuzil, is clothed nearly to her chin in a garment resembling a long-sleeve puritan gown, complete with a white Bertha collar. Full Story -
The Dictator on the Ranch
The late spring of 1961 was a rough time for President John F. Kennedy. The residual thrills from his inauguration in January and his [...] Full Story -
Friedkin Continues Career Dive
After the one-two punch of The French Connection and The Exorcist in the early 1970s, William Friedkin was on top of the world. The [...] Full Story
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Amped-Up Imposter Could Use More Vérité
For nearly 60 years Albert Maysles has been the face of the Direct Cinema movement, whose followers believe that non-interventionist observation is the key [...] Full Story -
A Shlocky Dallas Returns
Whenever Hollywood producers decide to remake a television show from the 1970s or ’80s—Starsky & Hutch or 21 Jump Street, to name two of [...] Full Story -
A Gaze into the Abyss
In October 2001, Jason Burkett and Michael Perry shot and killed Sandra Stotler in her home in Conroe, a small city about 40 miles [...] Full Story -
Bernie Packs Folksiness But Little Depth
In the Hollywood imagination, Texas generally means West Texas. Writers and directors think about the state and see a vast, wide-open landscape that stretches [...] Full Story -
The Zellner Brothers Embrace Awkwardness
Ever since the Hollywood studios realized back in the 1990s that there was money to be made in hitching their wagons to the careers [...] Full Story
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