Eleanor and Frank Perry
Eleanor and Frank Perry’s last movie together was their best, a wonderful adaptation of Sue Kaufman’s “Diary of a Mad Housewife”.
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Day: April 1, 2026
Fassbinder Revisited: A Cinematic Journey
“Fassbinder Revisited: A Cinematic Journey” reveals three masterworks of cinema: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Veronika Voss. And two for television: The Stationmaster’s Wife (also known as Bolweiser) and the 14-episode Berlin Alexanderplatz.
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La Nouvelle Vague (The French New Wave)
Included are my favorite thirteen films. Four are directed by Godard, three by Truffaut, two by Renais, and one each by Chabrol, Demy, Malle, and Varda.
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Eight Legendary Foreign Actresses Who Did Not Make It In Hollywood.
They were the darlings of the art house circuit. Their work in a language other than English is some of the greatest ever captured on film. But Hollywood…
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The Films of Sidney Lumet
Why did a great director make so many bad movies? How could the man who made “Dog Day Afternoon” make 24 unwatchable films?
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