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Only The Cinema
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A film review resource with an emphasis on classic Hollywood, foreign film, independent cinema, and the avant-garde. It is updated almost daily and often more than once per day with new reviews of current and classic films.
Recent Posts
The Holiday 2009 SLIFR Quiz
Dennis Cozzalio's film quizzes are a popular diversion for film bloggers everywhere, and he's just posted his newest one over at his always-great blog Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule. This is a holiday quiz, to span the Thanksgiving and Christm...
TOERIFC: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
[This review is prompted by the latest discussion for The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club, which is about Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters this month. The discussion can be found at Krauthammer's blog Crips and Mutes; go...
Patriotism
[This review is posted in preparation for the latest discussion for The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club, which will be discussing Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters this month. Stop by Krauthammer's blog Crips and Mutes on...
La cérémonie
Claude Chabrol has always been especially interested in the dynamics of class power, examining the nature of class with a dry, caustic wit. In La cérémonie, this examination plays out in a remote small town where the isolated lower-class ma...
Films I Love #45: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1976)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is, at least superficially, John Cassavetes' stab at a gangster thriller. In fact, though, the film's genre trappings are incidental to its central purpose, a character study of the charismatic loser Cosmo Vitelli (Ben...
The Box
Although Richard Kelly's third movie The Box has been advertised as an edgy thriller, an attempt for the director to claim some mainstream cred after the lackluster response to his messy, ambitious (and sadly undervalued) Southland Tales, this film m...

