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The Exiles: Cruisin’ For a Bruisin’ and Missing Home
One of The Exiles’ greatest strengths – and the reason we’ve chosen to take a closer look at it this month – is the undeniable sense of place that Kent MacKenzie manages to capture. The striking...
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The Exiles: MacKenzie’s Stand
Kent MacKenzie directing The Exiles The Exiles’ director Kent MacKenzie is one of those elusive figures of film history. Born in England, raised in New York, MacKenzie always had his eyes on the film...
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BIG SHOT: The Exiles
Yvonne, sweet-faced and wrapped in a white coat that throws an ethereal glow over her, wanders the floor of the Grand Central Market. She is enchanted by the abundance of the place, walking dreamily,...
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Model Shop: Love Triangle
When he follows a mysterious woman in white up into the Hollywood Hills, Model Shop‘s protagonist George (Gary Lockwood) unwittingly involves himself in an tangled love triangle that began eight years...
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Model Shop: What Could Have Been
Some of you might recognize George, played by Gary Lockwood, probably from 2001: A Space Odyssey as the other guy, Dr. Frank Poole. Although Lockwood does a decent, if unremarkable, job as the restless...
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Model Shop: Demy and Varda Take LA
In Vincent Canby’s 1969 review of Model Shop, he accuses Jacques Demy’s vision to be that of a “sensitive tourist”. While I don’t agree with Canby regarding Model Shop as its own entity, taken along...
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Model Shop: The Album
What’s more LA than some pysch-prog played by a guy named Randy California? Spirit provided much of the soundtrack to Model Shop and even made a brief appearance in the film. The soundtrack was never...
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Big Shot: Model Shop
In some ways the whole of Model Shop is less than the sum of its parts, not to say that’s a bad thing. A Jacques Demy movie without a trace of the director’s signature flamboyance, the musical numbers...
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Small Actors: Richard E. Grant
John McShane returns with an assessment of Richard E. Grant’s unexpected appeal because he’s the best; they both are. There’s something about Richard E. Grant’s appearance that can easily give the...
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Big Shot: The Player
The Player is famous for it’s eight-minute plus opening shot (a throwback to Truffaut’s intro in Day For Night). Snaking in and out of offices, conference rooms, and parking lots on a major Hollywood...
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Overlooked: LA is My Lady
After 12 years in New York City, I am relocating to Los Angeles, California in the immediate future, and searching out what was overlooked in January for LA is My Lady is the perfect opportunity to...
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[embedded content] In some ways the whole of Model Shop is less than the sum of its parts, not to say that’s a bad thing. A Jacques Demy movie without a trace of the director’s signature flamboyance,...
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[embedded content] The Player is famous for it’s eight-minute plus opening shot (a throwback to Truffaut’s intro in Day For Night). Snaking in and out of offices, conference rooms, and parking lots...
View ArticleOverlooked: LA is My Lady
After 12 years in New York City, I am relocating to Los Angeles, California in the immediate future, and searching out what was overlooked in January for LA is My Lady is the perfect opportunity to...
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