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Howard Chaykin – A Life in Comics
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
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cultureFront Row Center with Howard Chaykin: Neal Adams
Howard Chaykin pries into the secrets behind the legendary art of Neal Adams
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cultureFront Row Center with Howard Chaykin: Dan Panosian
“Your old stuff was better.” The first time a cartoonist hears this—and be rest assured, all of us will hear or have heard this calumny—that cartoonist...
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cultureFront Row Center With Howard Chaykin: Scott Phillips
Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.
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cultureUn Uomo Un’Avventura—an appreciation
UN UOMO UN’AVVENTURA loosely translates as A MAN AN ADVENTURE. If we wanted to move past the literal, we might change...
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cultureColoring Between the Lines: The Incredible Color Work of Lynn Varley
A celebration of the sorely under-appreciated colorist, Lynn Varley.
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cultureWhen A Heist Film Is About Everything Except The Heist: Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Sexy Beast’
The British born director Jonathan Glazer has earned a formidable auteur reputation on the back of only three films since 2000 and a storied...
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cultureStephen Fabian: Story-Telling Artist
Anyone who has had an interest in heroic fantasy in the 1970s -1980s would surely recognize the name of Stephen Fabian ...
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culture‘Network’: Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gruesome Prophecy Turned Reality
Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I always said, ‘This isn’t satire, it’s sheer reportage.’
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cultureSidney Lumet and Paddy Chayevsky’s ‘Network’: The Grim Prophecy that Was Once Just Brilliant Satire
What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976, a film promoted as outrageous, hasn’t lost its...
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culture‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’: Lucas and Spielberg’s Epitome of Action-Adventure Films Still Waiting to Be Surpassed
Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of 1977, George Lucas was resting on a Hawaiian beach, building sand castles with ...
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culture‘Charley Varrick’ – The Last of the Independents
Don Siegal's follow up to *Dirty Harry*, an adaptation of John C. Reese's *The Looters,* and a masterclass in character-driven storytelling
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cultureDownwards Is the Only Way Forwards: Welcome to David Fincher’s ‘The Game’
Twenty-one years on, David Fincher’s The Game (1997) has come to be seen as a prescient, schadenfreude look at the gulf between us and the “one ...
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factJanet’s World
A new take on a much maligned Black historical figure, Mike Sager presents the inside story of Washington Post Pulitzer fabulist Janet Cooke
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cultureA Simpler Way of Life: The Old-Fashioned Pleasure of Peter Weir’s ‘Witness’
American cop movies in the 1980s had grown so popular and so numerous that they began to require an additional hook to get people interested. 1985’s ...
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cultureAn Interview with Eddie Campbell, Part One: The Years Have (Digitally Colorized) Pants
An interview with the incomparable comics creator Eddie Campbell.
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culture‘The Driver’: Walter Hill Behind the Wheel of a Glorious Experiment
Having experienced his screenwriting debut with Hickey & Boggs in 1972, Walter Hill went on to pen several...
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cultureEddie Little: Paradise Lost
The night of November 2nd, 1998. The El Cadiz Apartments, Los Angeles. Thief-turned-writer Eddie Little is worried sick; he’s convinced he can hear a ...
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culture‘DOES THIS LOOK LIKE A SICK MAN TO YOU?’: The Horror of Identity and the Identity of Horror in David Cronenberg’s ‘The Fly’
TELEPOD 1: STATHIS He watches Her, trembling and nerve-twitched, eyes darting, lips pulled back over protruding…
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culture“No One Is Just Anything”: William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’
After the success of *The Exorcist,* director William Friedkin teamed up with *The Wild Bunch* screenwriter Walon Green for the groundbreaking *Sorcerer*
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culture‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’: Peter Yates’ Crime Masterpiece that Chose to Rely on a Completely Different Kind of Spectacle
Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was well received by critics and the public, featuring a story ...
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cultureCarol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’: How Orson Welles Stole a Show He Was Barely In
Filmmaker Carol Reed, hailed as one of the greatest U.K. directors, became famous in the late 1930s and 1940s with motion pictures such as Night Train ...
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cultureNoir Cut to Look of the Period, Not About the Period: The Sunny, Seedy ’50’s Underbelly of Curtis Hanson’s ‘L.A. Confidential’
"I came to it because of Ellroy. When I read ‘L.A. Confidential,’ I just got hooked on the characters, got caught up emotionally in their individual...
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culturePaul Lehr: Unexpected Rhythms
What words would YOU use to describe art that is indescribable? It’s a challenge! In my biography of Paul Lehr (2009) I wrote that he was among the...
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cultureRichard Powers: The World of fFlar
An essay celebration of renowned sci-fi artist Richard Powers and the surrealist wonder of the fFlar universe.