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I spoke with Jane Ira Bloom on September 21, 2021 via Zoom. This transcript has been edited for space and ellipses have been omitted for readability. Some paraphrases and details are added for clarity.
No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.
More homages to 1971’s magnificent bursts of cinematic iconoclasm, from McCabe & Mrs. Miller to The Music Lovers and Walkabout.
Mexico City settles on Columbus’ replacement, but finds that removal and substitution is agonizing in society which hasn’t changed all that much.
Run, do not walk, to pick up your copy of this novel about little person caught up in a very big world.
Fans will be pleased that time around director Wes Anderson has shot off everything in his stylistic quiver.
At the very least, Ionesco’s drama about the unreality of the world should produce shudders as well as chuckles.
Jacques Cousteau’s journey, from wannabe pilot to protector of the seas, is chronicled in a new documentary.
Syfy’s latest iteration of the killer doll remains as campy and violent as ever.
Book Review: Cowboys and the Wild East — “In the Dragon’s Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century”
Proceeding largely country by country, Sebastian Strangio penetratingly explores Southeast Asia’s multifaceted struggle with its behemoth Chinese neighbor.
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