Daily Briefing. Straub-Huillet and More on DVD and Blu-ray
David HudsonAlso: Elizabeth Taylor, accidental feminist? And John Malkovich revisits Les liaisons dangereuses.
Elizabeth Taylor
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Daily Briefing. Grimly Reaping in 2011
David HudsonAlso: New issues of One + One and the Brooklyn Rail, today’s lists and more.
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Migrating Forms, Elizabeth Taylor, More
David HudsonWe already have entries rolling on Midnight in Paris and Pirates 4, both updated through today, and, as the Playlist puts it in a headline today, there's "Not Much Else" opening in the metroplexes today
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Elizabeth Taylor, 1932 - 2011
David Hudson"Dame Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th Century's biggest movie stars, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 79," reports the BBC. "The peak of her film career came in the 1950s and 1960s, with four
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The Forgotten: Doug Tamer
David CairnsThe Taming of the Shrew (1929) has a pretty poor reputation, being a late gasp of two silent mega-stars, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, in the early talkie era. If it's celebrated for anything
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The Auteurs Daily: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood
David HudsonEarlier this month, when Elizabeth Taylor announced on Twitter that she was checking in for heart surgery (it all "went off perfectly," as she let us know a few days later), the London Times turned