Critical Essay by Albert Johnson
American films have become so glossy in their technical mastery and box-office attitudes that one greets with surprise and a sort of awe an independent group of film ...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Beginning with Shadows, the films of John Cassavetes have been at once limited and defined by their anti-intellectual form of humanism, an unconditional acceptanc...
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Critical Essay by R. E. Durgnat
[The characters in Shadows] are shadows because they are classless, rootless, virtually raceless, and hemmed in by an ideology of competitiveness which forces on the i...
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Critical Essay by Gordon Gow
Infinitely more calculated than Shadows, [Faces] still holds the feeling of spontaneity, of life going on unpredictably, movements unplanned, conversations disjointed and...
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Critical Essay by Nigel Andrews
Shadows, Faces, Husbands: John Cassavetes' titles serve both to define and to impersonalise his films' subject area. The announced theme provides a broad...
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Watching the action from the wings isn't in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's blood.With the presidential campaign fully engaged _ and the U.S. Constitution barring the foreign-born movie star-turned-hi...
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Two Royal Air Force jets shadowed a Russian strategic bomber that approached British air space last week, the Ministry of Defense said Tuesday.The incident occurred Friday, the same day Russian Pre...
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Governor Eliot Spitzer said the cantilever on the JPMorgan Chase building would let you play chess in the rain. Here’s another, um, "advantage": lighting a church from the heavens.
Anthony Sh...
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Nepal's king celebrated his 60th birthday Saturday with a lavish ceremony at his palace that set off protests in the streets of Katmandu.Calling the king a criminal, some 10,000 demonstrators deman...
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Seven years after the Confederate flag was moved from South Carolina's Statehouse dome, it still shadows visiting presidential candidates.The banner _ a symbol of Southern pride to some and racism ...
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On a Wednesday morning, 30 people _ white, black and Hispanic, a younger couple holding hands, a silver-haired man in a wheelchair _ pack a small classroom in the basement of the Adams County Housi...
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The question came out of the stands, as direct and on-target as a Lee Humphrey jumper. "Hey, Jeremy, is Billy going to Kentucky?" the fan yelled at the Florida athletic director, Jeremy Foley."Yeah...
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Critical Essay by Albert Johnson
Schwarzenegger shadow presidential race
