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A cinephile's journey.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Review: Chimes at Midnight (1966)

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Jeanne Moreau and Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff ).  I was very fortunate to get to see Orson Welles' late-caree...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Carter's Top 39 Films (June 2016)

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Here is an off-the-cuff list of my thirty nine "favorite" movies at present. Check out my "this is a gut feeling thing, n...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Periodizing the Blockbuster Era

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The above diagram schematizes some of the factors influencing the transition from the Hollywood Renaissance period (1967-1980) to the ea...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Film Reviews Are Subjective

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FUCK THE TOMATOMETER! Assigning numbers to creative works, even factory assembled ones like movies, is stupid. Reviews of cultural pro...
Sunday, May 15, 2016

Review: Escape from New York (1981)

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John Carpenter's Escape From New York is one of the most tonally sophisticated, visually iconic, and outright enjoyable dystopian a...
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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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One of my favorite bits from The Force Awakens . I have written before about Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens , J.J. Abrams...
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Carter Soles
I am an Associate Professor of Film Studies in upstate New York. I have been a role-playing gamer since the early 1980's when I got my first "Dungeons and Dragons" boxed set as a fifth grader. I have been a cinephile for as long as I can remember.
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