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Another walk down memory lane, recounting my first encounters with movies, some of which went on to become classics, while others sank into well-deserved obscurity.

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There have been quite a few films based on the work of prolific crime novelist Donald E. Westlake and two of the best were made in the transitional period between the end of the Production Code and the decline of the big Hollywood studios and the rise of corporate control in the mid-'70s. John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) and John Flynn's The Outfit (1973) are given exemplary tr...

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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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