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  Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’

  Michael Fox
  Sep 28, 2011

  Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.

  
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  Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’

  Michael Fox
  Sep 28, 2011

  Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.

  
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  Slade Channels Broughton’s ‘Big Joy’

  Michael Fox
  Sep 28, 2011

  Artistic integrity is always in short supply, which makes Broughton an inspiration for every successive generation of poets and filmmakers.

  
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  Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction

  Dennis Harvey
  Mar 11, 2011

  A new Burroughs documentary revisits a familiar story, but delivers fresh insight.

  
• March 17, 2011
  
  

  Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction

  Dennis Harvey
  Mar 11, 2011

  A new Burroughs documentary revisits a familiar story, but delivers fresh insight.

  
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  Burroughs’ Story Still Stranger than Fiction

  Dennis Harvey
  Mar 11, 2011

  A new Burroughs documentary revisits a familiar story, but delivers fresh insight.

  
• September 7, 2010
  
  

  Swoon Series at PFA

  Sep 8, 2010

  The PFA series Swoon brings back Hollywood's classic leading men—the vulnerable loners, steel-eyed poets and Paul Newman—looking very young through September 26. This week: 'The Hustler,' 'House of Bamboo' and 'Breathless.'

  
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  A Vampire Weekend at YBCA

  Max Goldberg
  Aug 26, 2010

  Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .

  
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  A Vampire Weekend at YBCA

  Max Goldberg
  Aug 26, 2010

  Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .

  
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  SFIFF52: Chris Felver's "Ferlinghetti" Captures an Icon

  David Winks Gray
  Apr 26, 2009

  Chris Felver traces the life of antiauthoritarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of City Lights Books, from his days as a Navy serviceman in World War II through the landmark First Amendment trial in Ferlinghetti.