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Kael Vs. Kane: Pauline Kael, Orson Welles and the Authorship of Citizen Kane

Part I. In 1963, Film Quarterly published an essay entitled “Circles and Squares.” It addressed the French auteur theory, introduced to America by The Village Voice’s Andrew Sarris. Auteurism holds that a film’s primary creator is its director; Sarris’s “Notes on the Auteur Theory” further distinguished auteurs as filmmakers with distinct, recurring styles. Challenging him …

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The Good Wife, Ep. 5.11, “Goliath and David” is a wacky blow-off episode

The Good Wife returns from its short winter break this week with an episode that is erratic at best. “Goliath and David” has a mediocre case-of-the-week, an annoying plotline involving Marilyn’s baby, sub-par Lockhart Gardner drama, and hints that the Kalinda/Damian story is going to get as bad as we’d worried. Basically, it is an episode that shows that even at its best, The Good Wife makes the occasional misstep.

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Jeff Bridges and Peter Bogdanovich plan A New Sequel to “The Last Picture Show”

Jeff Bridges is in talks with director Peter Bogdanovich about a second sequel to the American classic The Last Picture Show (the first being Texasville). According to The Collider Jeff Bridges had this to say at the the TRON: Legacy press junket: “I was just in Texas with Peter [Bogdanovich] and we’re looking at doing …

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