Critical Essay by Len Masterman
Though Polanski has often remarked upon the crucial importance of surrealism to his conception of the cinema, the extent of his commitment to surrealist philosophy in ...
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Critical Essay by Tom Milne
'Ah! Pinter' one cries, sniffing like a Bisto Kid at the heady aroma of Cul-de-Sac…. Then one remembers the odd, elliptical conversations of Knife in ...
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Critical Essay by Raymond Durgnat
The affinities of this 'black comedy' [Cul-de-Sac] with the Theatre of the Absurd hardly need underlining; and there's a spirit not unlike Iones...
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Critical Essay by Brendan Gill
["Cul-de-Sac"] is the quintessence of fashionable, phony movie-making, and I am all the more impatient with it because of my admiration for Mr. Polanski&#...
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In the neighborhood of astronaut Lisa Nowak, parents are now able to play catch with their kids on balmy evenings. Instead of the hum of satellite trucks, they can hear birds chirping at sunset.Fam...
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Fire driven by Santa Ana winds spread over 30 acres of brush in steep terrain Monday, threatening 20 homes.Wind was blowing the fire through hills in a southerly direction a short distance south of...
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A woman and her two young children were among seven people found dead after a "strange odor" was reported coming from a duplex apartment, and a third child was unaccounted for, police said Monday.T...
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10: The Bionic Woman
Having the Six Million Dollar Man as your boyfriend has its benefits if you find yourself broken after a skydiving mishap, as Jaime Sommers discovered. His pull in the military...
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A neighbor of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton who is accused of murdering his wife admitted to police he had a 10-year affair with another woman and sent her flowers two days before his spouse was ...
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The Fashion Institute of Technology has been trying to permanently close 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues for years, in its quest to create a "commons" space on the east end of the st...
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Hundreds of students were headed for their first classes after the long holiday break when shots rang out in the halls of Henry Foss High School. Within hours, one boy was dead and another was behi...
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Every day, tourist buses trundle along the Hollywood Walk of Fame and through Beverly Hills so that sightseers can gawk at celebrities and gasp at their mansions.A lesser-known tour through the ind...
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Every day, tourist buses trundle along the Hollywood Walk of Fame and through Beverly Hills so that sightseers can gawk at celebrities and gasp at their mansions.A lesser-known tour through the ind...
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Critical Essay by Len Masterman
Smith death brings quiet to neighborhood
