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...autobiography; Manny was that craftsman. Contributing to left-wing weeklies and film magazines - except for a few months at Time - he had all the anonymity he needed, at least relative to front-line reviewers on the newspapers and newsweeklies. Manny's pieces had no impact on a film's box office take; I don't recall ever seeing his name on a movie ad or a DVD box. Eh, so what? His reviews gave the impression that, although it'd be nice to be heeded, he didn't care if he was liked. This wasn't the case with Manny...
...Forest, Thieves' Highway, They Live by Night, All the King's Men, Intruder in the Dust, Passport to Pimlico (loved it) and Adam's Rib (hated it). You can locate these and other Manny movie reviews fairly quickly by typing a film's title, in quotes, into the Search box. What you'll also discover is a 32-year-old writer coping with a house style and deadline fatigue, but also fighting to get his say and his way and frequently winning. His advocacy of neo-realism, of storytelling efficiency, of teeming termite life in the corners of the film...
...Mussolini's reign, four Fascists take pleasure in subjecting young villagers to the worst sexual degradation. Criterion has reissued this grim, notorious film--the last work of the gay Marxist poet and director--in a classy two-disc set, a death skull grinning from the box...
...While authorities work to unlock the information contained in the plane's black box, recovered last night, family members of the victims made the painful trip to the makeshift morgue that had been set up at the city's main convention center. The fire that erupted once the plane crash was so intense that many of the victims' bodies are burned beyond recognition. It was so intense, says Wheeldon, "that it's a miracle any survived at all." Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero declared three days of mourning and promised government support for the families...
...effect is potent and compelling. Back in Moscow, where she is preparing to travel to Edinburgh for the Dorian Gray premiere, Kolosova describes the reaction of the 91-year-old former Bolshoi ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya to Bourne's Swan Lake. Too frail to make it backstage from her box, the legendary People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. asked for a message to be sent to Bourne. "She wanted to tell him that this was the future," Kolosova recalls. "That this was the way forward...