Articles Archive for June 2009
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After a long winter snooze we’re back to regular updates here. Just to get things started, here’s a recent look at the new Criterion box set focusing on the early 1960s work of Japanese director Shohei Imamura – with a jump to GreenCine.com’s venerable daily blog, whose Powers That Be were generous enough to commission the piece.
Although he bowed out in 2006, at age 79, as a globally revered grand master of cinema—his nation’s greatest living filmmaker—Shohei Imamura may have simply refined his touch over a 45-year career so …
Steve Dollar has been thinking about film since his childhood visits to the drive-in theaters of the Florida Panhandle in the early 1960s, where exposure to Mondo Cane and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly irradiated his tender brain, causing permanent after-effects. Later on, he started writing about the stuff for daily newspapers in large American cities. He divides his time between Florida, Los Angeles, and New York – where he writes a weekly column on repertory film for the Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York section, and covers other cinematic matters of a Gotham-istic nature. He also has contributed to such publications as Newsday, the New York Sun, GQ, Playboy.com, Time Out New York, and the GreenCine Daily. 24XPS is a topology of cinematic enthusiasms, an archive of heedless indulgences, and a free-for-all of forsaken, forgotten, and forbidden movies, celebrating anything and everything celluloid and pixel. Please visit often and tell your friends.
