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Tagged by Roger Ebert as the most influential film critic of the late twentieth century, the film tells the story of Pauline's turbulent life and work, through never-seen archival footage, her published writing and personal letters, and interviews with both friends and foes of he...
An enterprising gambler and a bordello madam, both newcomers to the raw Pacific Northwest mining town of Presbyterian Church, join forces to provide the miners with a superior kind of whorehouse experience. The appearance of representatives of a powerful mining company with inter...
Charts, over twenty-five years, the relationship between two friends and the object of their mutual obsession.
The battle of Chile: A documentary chronicling the overthrow of Chile's open and peaceful socialist revolution as exemplified by democratically-elected President Salvador Allende. The leftist government is demonstrated by the film as facing significant obstacles, culminating in t...
Mary Norris has spent more than three decades in The New Yorker's copy department, maintaining its celebrated high standards. Now she brings her vast experience, good cheer, and finely sharpened pencils to help the rest of us in a boisterous language book as full of life as it is...
"A smart and eminently readable examination of the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most influential movie critics." - Los Angeles Times "Engrossing and thoroughly researched." - Entertainment Weekly • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2011 • ...
Here are real-time accounts of these years of turmoil: Calvin Trillin reports on the integration of Southern universities, E. B. White and John Updike wrestle with the enormity of the Kennedy assassination, and Jonathan Schell travels with American troops into the jungles of Viet...
"'How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell.' That would be in the autumn of 1972, when a very young and green James Wolcott arrived from Maryland, full of literary dreams, equipped with a letter of introduction from Norman Mailer, and havin...
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world...
"This uniquely interdisciplinary study of Black cultural critics Armond White and Paul Gilroy spans continents and decades of rebellion and revolution. Drawing on an eclectic mix of archival research, politics, film theory, and pop culture, Daniel McNeil examines two of the most ...