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Rediscovering Hollywood’s Eve

Armond White

Playing a middle-aged woman still remorseful about the teenage decision to give up her out-of-wedlock baby for adoption, Annette Bening’s quietly convincing and uniquely moving performance in Rodrigo Garcia’s...

The Coens Keep the Faith

Armond White

Famous for the Oscar-winning movies Fargo and No Country for Old Men, the team of filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are less well-known for their spiritual undertakings. Today’s...

A Tangled Mess

Armond White

By changing the title of the Rapunzel fairy tale to Tangled, the folks at Disney have found a perfect euphemism to represent today’s cultural confusion. But so many conflicting...

The Lost Dimension

Armond White

n The 3-D explosion in Hollywood may add depth to the screen, but Armond White argues that it subtracts from the movies. nn Out of real ideas, Hollywood is...

Do Movie Critics Matter?

Armond White

It’s always a good year at the movies, even if the great films can be counted on a few digits and never get mentioned at the Academy Awards. That’s...

Why Nine Got Only Four

Armond White

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Filmmaking by Numbers

Armond White

It’s a sign of the times that Federico Fellini’s 1963 classic 8½ ”widely considered the best film ever made about filmmaking”has been remade in such a way that its...