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Splice Archive
Highlights and disappointments from this year's New York Film Festival.
The evolution of Lang's obsessions and preoccupations through his career in Germany and Hollywood.
The good guys aren’t.
Heart of the Beast isn't exactly innovative, but it achieves exactly what it sets out to do.
Desert Warrior would be more interesting as pure propaganda rather than the compendium of exhausted clichés that it actually is.
The Love Hypothesis is ridiculous on various fronts, but nevertheless has some charm.
Buddy is symptomatic of a growing societal contempt for children.
Teenage Wasteland doesn’t wax poetic about the importance of education, but it does show the advantage of allowing ambition to flourish.
Heart of the Beast is a forgettable thriller.
The dour chronicles of Andrey Zvyagintsev from The Return to Minotaur.
Not my cousin. He’s been lying to you. He’s in trouble now.
I made it into the novel The Adventures of Cliff Booth. But the movie?
The genre has room enough for range these days.
Why the laughs dried up in movie theaters.
Better to be poisoned than married.
Seduced by Stanwyck and her dice.
Maybe the darkest noir is the noir that lies to you.
The guy is evil, but the film hates the woman anyway.
Three bad predictions and a foreboding.
A forgotten comedy of great charm.
A great film noir buried underneath a plodding moralistic plot.
Don Goodman's 1966 UCLA student film.
The late filmmaker talks about the arduous production of his 1978 masterpiece in this April 16, 2007 interview.
The Elizabeth Holmes documentary, directed by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, is in theaters October 16.
An obscure adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel starring Fat City almuni Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell.
The living legend talks Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard, and more.
The late actress talks about A Bug's Life nearly 30 years ago in Hollywood.
The late filmmaker talks about AFI, the role of intuition in directing, his early influences, and more.
The late actor talks to Bobbie Wygant about his 1979 Western comedy directed by Robert Aldrich.
The directors talk at the world premiere of Robert Rodriguez's film in Austin on January 15, 1996.