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Jean-Luc Godard 1930-2022
The French New Wave director was to movies as Picasso was to art, Joyce to literature, and Dylan to popular music.
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A Handmaid's Tale (Leon Vitali 1948-2022)
On the mystery and necessity of shadow collaborators.
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Requiem for a Buddha
Those of you who follow me on social media may know that my wife and I have been dealing with a family health crisis in recent weeks: Her father, my father-in-law, went voluntarily into hospice care early this month and passed away last Sunday. He was 91, in full possession
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Anne Heche 1969-2022
An actress like a mercury bead: brilliant and hard to pin down.
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Bob Rafelson 1933-2022
An under-recognized New Hollywood titan, he revolutionized the movies.
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James Caan 1940-2022
He was always more than Sonny Corleone.
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Something Wild: Ray Liotta 1954-2022
10 good reasons to remember a great movie wiseguy
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The Light Bestowed
Thoughts on the passing of a good man.
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William Hurt 1950-2022
Thoughts on an actor who moved to his own private tune.
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Lillian Gish, Ike Turner, and me
The enjoyment of playing the fame-name game and the memories it brings to life.
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Sidney Poitier 1927-2022
The star who changed the movies and the role he had to play
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Peter Bogdanovich 1939-2022
For many years, the narrative about Peter Bogdanovich was that he was a wunderkind who lost the knack. After the low-budget meta-monster movie “Targets” (1968), featuring Boris Karloff as a version of himself, Bogdanovich broke through in 1971, at 32, with “The Last Picture Show,” a black-and-white portrait of a