John Phillip Law, best remembered by me as Pygar the blind angel in Roger Vadim’s Barbarella, died May 13 of cancer. He was 70 years old.
His first Hollywood role was as Alexei, a boyish Russian sailor in Norman Jewison’s The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming! He also played the title character in the [...]

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No cinematic pun intended…well maybe a little. This one tried to sneak past without my noticing it, but luckily Sartre brought it to my attention. It seems David Lynch and Werner Herzog are going to team up on a “horror-tinged murder drama” called My Son, My Son. It’s loosely based on the true story of a man [...]

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Cannes 2008 in Competition: Waltz with Bashir 
Screening in competition, Waltz with Bashir is the fourth feature from Israeli director Ari Folman. Because it’s animated and it centers on the Middle East, it is drawing comparisons to Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, but it sounds like a very different animal. It tells the story of the massacre of [...]

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The next stop for LiC’s continuing New Beverly Nights feature will hopefully be Friday or Saturday’s double-feature of Performance (1970) and O Lucky Man! (1973).
If there is anyone out there in the greater (or lesser) Los Angeles area who’d like to join me, drop me a line and we can coordinate. 7 bucks. Cheap!
Performance is [...]

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Anders Danielsen Lie in Joachim Trier’s Reprise
LiC’s limited release Pick of the Week
There are plenty of decent limited releases from previous weekends still kicking around (The Visitor, Young@Heart, Son of Rambow, The Fall, OSS 117) and it might be a good time to try and find one because there is only one new wide release [...]

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