Publications

Touch of Evil

James Bowman

Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, made in1957 and now restored according to a memo of protest Welles wrote to Universal…

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Unmade Beds

James Bowman

Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that…

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The Avengers

James Bowman

You know when, in the course of watching The Avengers by Jeremiah Chechnik, you see Uma Thurman grappling with herself,…

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Best Man, The

James Bowman

The Best Man, written and directed (in Italian) by Pupi Avati begins by solemnly informing us that “Once upon a…

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Seventh Heaven (Le Ciel Septième)

James Bowman

It is not a particularly original or even, necessarily, interesting observation that marriage, like other symbiotic relationships, is often a…

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Ciel Septième, Le (Seventh Heaven)

James Bowman

It is not a particularly original or even, necessarily, interesting observation that marriage, like other symbiotic relationships, is often a…

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Disturbing Behavior

James Bowman

The movies have in the past found it profitable to cater for almost every kind of paranoia there is. The…

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Henry Fool

James Bowman

I tried very hard to like Henry Fool by Hal Hartley and was intermittently successful, but I found it in…

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How Stella Got Her Groove Back

James Bowman

How Stella Got Her Groove Back, directed by Kevin Rodney Sullivan from a screenplay by Terry McMillan and Ron Bass…

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Lolita

James Bowman

The American distributors who refused an American market to Adrian Lyne’s new film version of Lolita until it was already…

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Marie Baie Des Anges

James Bowman

Marie Baie Des Anges by Manual Pradal stars Vahina Giocante as 15 year old Marie and Frederic Malgras as her…

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Next Stop Wonderland

James Bowman

Next Stop, Wonderland, written and directed by Brad Anderson, is a charming romantic comedy with a great many funny moments,…

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