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More of my old student reviews, and a brief tetchy exchange of letters with Greg Klymkiw, a rival critic and future producer of Guy Maddin's early features.

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Criterion's new Blu-ray of Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de torchon (1981) is a welcome upgrade from their 25-year-old DVD; the finest adaptation of a Jim Thompson novel, the film, transposed to late-1930s French West Africa, is a devastating black comedy about the madness and violence inherent in colonialism.

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Continuing my four-plus-decades-old look at my earliest critical writing, when I was knocking out reviews for the university student paper...

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Having recently rediscovered a scrapbook of clippings from my days at the University of Winnipeg where I wrote movie reviews for the student paper, I can look back at the beginnings of my critical viewing of movies - my younger self was perhaps more cranky and opinionated than I am now, but here are the roots of the writing I've been doing here on my blog for the past sixteen ye...

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Although I've been revisiting some familiar films via new 4K releases, I've also been making an effort to watch movies new to me. These include John Guillermin's Brit-noir The Whole Truth (1958); Basil Dearden's Out of the Clouds (1955), about a day in the life of Heathrow Airport; John Sturges' The Valdez Horses (1973), an ersatz spaghetti western starring Charles Bronson; and ...

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