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...sets are made for the completist, not the critic. Someone, surely, will watch all 14 hours of the documentary extras and, perhaps, the three films on their own, then with the two tracks of commentary, which means another 20 hours. All of which makes The Ultimate Matrix an ideal gift for that obsessive uncle or nephew who has nothing but spare time. (We're guessing that the fanatical rewatching of action-movie trilogies is pretty much a guy thing. A lonely-guy thing...
...American Progress, and Ed Kilgore of the DLC, who have been having a heated exchange over economic populism, free trade and the relationship between Democrats and big business. But last Friday, a televised National Press Club debate on the future of the Democratic Party between longtime liberal DLC critic Robert Borosage of Campaign for America’s Future and DLC founder and professional controversialist Al From ended up as a surprising exercise in civility...
...Singer with Muscles The Milestone on baritone Howard Keel [Nov. 22] reminded readers of his success in a string of Hollywood musicals, one of which was Kiss Me Kate. Fifty-one years ago, when the film was released, TIME's critic wasn't all that keen on it but had praise for Keel's performance...
...task of lying to the public was made easier by our political climate, which inhibits independent thinking. In his recent book, The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don’t Think for Themselves, social critic Curtis White argues that our contemporary culture encourages Americans to consume the soundbites they’re spoon-fed rather than seek out information and evaluate it critically. White’s diagnosis would explain why voters seem increasingly willing to buy into prepackaged, spin-dried versions of the truth while tuning out inconvenient facts. In today’s polarized political milieu, many Americans...
Fortunately, The Big Red One’s missing footage was not lost forever. While making a documentary about Fuller, film historian and Time Magazine film critic Richard Schickel made it his personal quest to find this lost footage in the bowels of Warner Brothers’ storage. Upon retrieving these long misplaced reels, he restored them to the film in an effort to make the “director’s cut” that—after Fuller’s death in 1997—was no longer truly possible. The recoveries comprised by this restoration...