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Dirty Harry | A. O. Scott

August 16, 2011

I was reading about Clint Eastwood’s 1971 film Dirty Harry this week for a long, much overdue (now almost mythical) post I’m supposed to be writing, and so I have to share A. O. Scott’s video review of the movie for The New York Times:

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Babar at 80

August 15, 2011

Pamela Paul, the New York Times Book Review’s children’s books editor, talks with Laurent de Brunhoff about Babar the elephant, created by his mother and father 80 years ago:

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M*A*S*H | A. O. Scott

August 9, 2011

New York Times film critic A. O. Scott revisits Robert Altman’s 1970 film MASH: The film was based on MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by former military surgeon Richard Hooker, first published in 1968.

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Les Diaboliques | A. O. Scott

July 12, 2011

New York Times film critic A.O. Scott turns his attention to the 1955 French thriller Les Diaboliques directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot: Les Diaboliques was based on the novel Celle qui n’était plus (She Who Was No More) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac and before Clouzot bought the rights to the screenplay, Alfred Hitchcock was apparently [...]

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Midweek Miscellany

June 15, 2011

An interview with the talented Allison Colpoys, book designer at Penguin Books Australia, at The Design Files. Particular Beasts — A brief interview with art director John Gall about teaching book design: Each book is its own particular beast that has to be designed from the ground up. Every designer has their own way of [...]

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