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Ideal Women [THE FAMINE WITHIN]

From the Chicago Reader (March 13, 1992). This film can now be accessed online. ...

Bravery in Hiding [on LUMIÈRE D’ÉTÉ and LE CIEL EST À V...

Jean Grémillon remains one of the major French filmmakers whose films are most e...

A Couple of Kooks [MY BEST FIEND]

From the Chicago Reader (February 11, 2000). — J.R. My Best Fiend Rating * Has ...

Casino

From the November 1, 1995 Chicago Reader. — J.R.   Simultaneously quite watchab...

DAVE BRUBECK: IN HIS OWN SWEET WAY

Written for the January/February 2011 Film Comment. — J.R. Dave Brubeck: In His ...

Hollow Rendition [on SLEEPY HOLLOW]

From the November 19, 1999 issue of the Chicago Reader. — J.R. Sleepy Hollow *...

It All Adds Up [FOUR CORNERS]

From the Chicago Reader (December 12, 1997). — J.R. Four Corners Rating *** A m...

Art Film by Numbers

From the Chicago Reader (April 13, 1990). — J.R. THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE ...

CRUMB Reconsidered

Written in 2010 for Criterion’s DVD and Blu-Ray. This is the second of my essays...

Reality and History as the Apotheosis of Southern Sleaz...

From The Oxford-American, issue #42, Winter 2002. — J.R. Karlson pushes and pun...

Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans

From Cineaste (Fall 2006). — J.R. Orson Welles: Volume 2: Hello Americans by S...

A Bluffer’s Guide to Bela Tarr

From the Chicago Reader (May 25, 1990). This is also reprinted in my first colle...

Traffic

From the Chicago Reader (December 18, 2000). — J.R. I don’t get it. Maybe my bi...

The Family Man

A Manhattan investment broker and playboy (Nicolas Cage) wakes up one morning to...

Cast Away

From the Chicago Reader (December 18, 2000). — J.R. When Robert Zemeckis start...

Thirteen Days

Adapted by David Self from a book entitled The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White H...

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