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Holy Holes

"Notice it has a point at the top for ease of entry. It's just the right shape for the human mouth.... And it's even curved toward the face to make the whole process so much easier." That's Ray. He's from…

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Mmmmmm, D'oh Nuts!

Q. In your review of "The Simpsons Movie," you mention that it is already voted as the 166th best film of all time on the Internet Movie Database and ask, "Do you suppose somehow the ballot box got stuffed by…

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Mourning (and assessing) Bergman

View image Some of the best things I've read about Ingmar Bergman's place in cinema, written since his death (UPDATED 8/01/07): E-mails to Roger Ebert from filmmakers and writers including David Mamet, Paul Schrader, Sally Potter, Haskell Wexler, Paul Theroux,…

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"Blow-Up" corpse pays tribute to Antonioni

Click to blow up image From "Blow-Up": A blow-up image of... what? “Until the film is edited, I have no idea myself what it will be about. And perhaps not even then. Perhaps the film will only be a mood,…

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Siskel & Ebert & Roeper archived

The various incarnations of Siskel & Ebert & Roeper represent more than 1,000 TV programs, on which the three of us, and various guest critics, reviewed more than 5,000 movies. And now at last an online archive exists with all…

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Ingmar Bergman (1918 -2007)

View image One of the images everyone will be using today. Found this e-mail in my inbox from Anna Hakansson of the Swedish Film Institute about an hour ago: Ingmar Bergman passed away today at his home on Fårö. He…

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Words from Deadwood

View image Brad Dourif as a doc with a dark turn of mind. Since I've been feelin' poorly, I have spent the odd evening and weekend with a book (including some fine ones: Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" and "No Country…