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By | June 2001
TK
Left to his own devices, literally a babe in the woods, David's only friend is Teddy, his mechanical teddy bear. Teddy is another of A.I.'s oddities. At...
Perhaps the most elusive ribbon of film in the history of cinema is "Frankenstein." Not the 1931 masterpiece with Boris Karloff, but the first screen...
So what happened to the prints of "Frankenstein"? As with many silent films, prints were scattered to collectors, or left to deteriorate due to improper...
In 1965, "Outer Limits" creator Leslie Stevens and his crew descended on Big Sur to make a different sort of horror film. The result, Incubus, is a...
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle is unique among film stars in being remembered for what he didn't do, rather than for what he accomplished. Scandal-chasers are all...
THE LATEST INSTALLMENT IN FILM THREAT'S INVESTIGATION INTO SONY'S PHONY FILM CRITIC DAVID MANNING. Not since "Anonymous" or "Unknown" has a writer so...
From the Desk of David Manning ^ Film Critic for the Ridgefield Press This is an open letter to address the recent revelations about my work and the fact...
The problem with "visionary" directors is that, in their zeal to fill the eyes with wonder at all times, they sometimes leave so many other elements...
By the time Lautrec's gang has dragged Christian into the club, Luhrmann finally decides to calm down and get out of his own story's way. And just in time...
Bootleg movies possess their own peculiar æsthetic. A thorough example of the bootleg æsthetic is Jim Jarmusch's Ghost Dog: The Way of the...
