The Indian Tomb
Arrgh. All considered, this was about as bad as Elizabethtown, so I’ll have to stop lording that miserable pick over Marcy’s head. It was all me who insisted we watch this sequel to The Tiger of...
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In 1921, hot off Die Spinnen, Fritz Lang was set to direct an adaptation of Thea von Harbou’s novel The Indian Tomb. But producer Joe May was convinced the two-part melodrama would be huge, so he...
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After the Wedding
AKA the Danish movie that didn’t win the Oscar. Susanne Bier’s drama about a Dane who runs an orphanage in India but has to return to Copenhagen to ask a wealthy man for money is the kind of tale that...
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A Mighty Heart
Angelina Jolie plays Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom’s docudrama about the kidnapping and murder of her husband, the journalist Daniel Pearl. After United 93 and several other pointless...
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The Darjeeling Limited
What a relief. After The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, I wasn’t alone in diagnosing Wes Anderson with a damn-near terminal case of arrested development. With this story of three brothers on a...
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The Darjeeling Limited Press Conference
After thinking about it for a week, seeing the final few minutes again and learning that the prequel short Hotel Chevalier is available for free on iTunes, I love The Darjeeling Limited even better...
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Youth Without Youth
I had a strange dream last night about Romania and Malta, India and Switzerland. In my dream, Francis Ford Coppola had made a new movie, something about an old man who is hit by lightning and grows a...
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Design Observer’s 50 Books/50 Covers
Kino has been selected by Design Observer as one of the winners of their annual Fifty Books / Fifty Covers awards, organized by Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books....
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Design Observer’s 50 Books/50 Covers
Kino has been selected by Design Observer as one of the winners of their annual Fifty Books / Fifty Covers awards, organized by Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books....
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Design Observer’s 50 Books/50 Covers
Kino has been selected by Design Observer as one of the winners of their annual Fifty Books / Fifty Covers awards, organized by Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books....
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Design Observer’s 50 Books/50 Covers
Kino has been selected by Design Observer as one of the winners of their annual Fifty Books / Fifty Covers awards, organized by Design Observer in association with AIGA and Designers & Books....
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Photos from Berlin Readings
A few photos from Berlin, where I read with Marcy Dermansky and Jessica Francis Kane at St. Gaudy Cafe and Shakespeare & Sons Bookstore. I also toured a few Kino locations. The complete photo set...
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Kino
Kino is the tragic story of a silent film director in Nazi Germany and his modern day granddaughter’s quest to redeem him. When the long lost, first-ever silent film from legendary director Kino...
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The Indian Tomb
Arrgh. All considered, this was about as bad as Elizabethtown, so I’ll have to stop lording that miserable pick over Marcy’s head. It was all me who insisted we watch this sequel to The Tiger of...
View ArticleSeetha’s Dance
In 1921, hot off Die Spinnen, Fritz Lang was set to direct an adaptation of Thea von Harbou’s novel The Indian Tomb. But producer Joe May was convinced the two-part melodrama would be huge, so he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
After the Wedding
AKA the Danish movie that didn’t win the Oscar. Susanne Bier’s drama about a Dane who runs an orphanage in India but has to return to Copenhagen to ask a wealthy man for money is the kind of tale that...
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