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ON THE FRINGE, PART FIVE: PERMANENT VACATION (1980)

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:33:59 +0000

One of the many hurdles over which I’ve needed to continuously hop in my “On the Fringe” series is the urgency to come up with synonyms and, ultimately, euphemisms for the descriptor “deceptively simple” in the proper encapsulation of films […]

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MUSTANG ISLAND

Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:04:34 +0000

At its core, Mustang Island is an existential analysis of Bill and his cohorts’ actions – but with a twist...

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Michael Tully In Conversation With James Gray (THE IMMIGRANT)

Michael Tully — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 17:14:44 +0000

For my money, James Gray is the best American director of his generation. James Gray movies are as infused with elements of opera and painting and literature as they are classic cinema, and while his ambitiously realized worlds are indebted […]

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LORD BYRON

Michael Tully — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:20:31 +0000

Watching this movie is like reading a good book. One of those good zany Southern fiction books, that is.

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