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Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth." -- Joseph Conrad
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February 2024

Sticks and Stones
Nuclear winter chic in the early '80s: Threads, The Day After, Special Bulletin
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December 2023

2023 in incomplete review
A roundup
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Top whatever Films of 2023
I resist lists
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September 2023

Wherever you go, there you are. Unfortunately.
On Zachary Wigon's "The Heart Machine"
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On Dustin Guy Defa’s "Bad Fever"
Be it Fahrenheit or Centigrade
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August 2023

To quote the last line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ...
I been away a long time
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July 2023

June 2023

Outside-Inside: John Cassavetes' "Minnie and Moskowitz"
Where is Charles Boyer when you need him?
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yes I said yes I will Yes
Families, actual and chosen, and Bloomsday
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Rachel, Rachel: All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?
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May 2023

Catching Up
Stuff I'm doing, stuff I'm writing
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