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I've said this before, but Chopin gets Edna to the same place Tolstoy gets Anna in a 10th of the time. Edna and Anna are merely two ti...

Doris Lessing was a badass six ways to Sunday.  She was born in Iran (back in the good ol' days when it was referred to as Persia...

Are we doing this again?  Are we back in the saddle?  Truth is, it never really stopped. 

It’s a bit of poetry that the two state-sanctioned documentary films about the Olympics came with Leni Riefensthal’s bombastic Olympia ch...

One of the few films on the 1,001 list that unintentionally flopped at the box office. By the mid-30s, Spencer Tracy and Joan Bennett were ...

Notable only because it was directed by Max Ophüls, a German Jew who fled his homeland in 1933 as the Nazis started rattling the cage. He f...

Part detective novel and part dystopian 1984 , you keep waiting for Cocaine Nights to turn the corner. With all the se...