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From Art House to Grindhouse, Marvin takes you through the high roads and back alleys of Tinseltown's cinematic landscape. Marvin also writes about Italian genre films. Send Marvin your film feedback at automaticmifune@gmail.com.

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Exile from Godville: Lars and the 'real world' of Antichrist

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While audiences continue to reel in their seats from the slightest bump and boo coming out of what amounts to be some pretty normal multiplex...
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All Yesterday's Parties: Last Year at Marienbad plays LACMA

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LACMA kicks off another amazing retrospective this year as the films of the French New Wave's Left Bank master Alain Resnais are featured for the next...
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In the eye of the storm: Epic Iranian TV series under fire

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On Friday, September 18, I had the privilege to sit down and break bread with internationally renowned Iranian...
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Sound and vision: Extract composer George S. Clinton on the soundtrack of reel life

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Now hear this: the moving image, as we know it, would be nothing without music. Since the days of "silent" pictures, filmmakers (and...
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Warrior of the wasteland: An interview with Inglorious Bastards director, Enzo G. Castellari

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Despite having made over 40 films ranging from westerns to thrillers to science fiction, the recent attention on legendary Italian director Enzo G....
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A funny thing happened on the way back to India or: a magical mystery tour on a road less traveled

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Indian megastar Shah Rukh Khan's recent humiliating detainment in one of our airports is merely an indication of our country's lack of fascination...
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In the city: An interview with British director Shane Meadows

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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a...
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Return to OZploitation: Director Mark Hartley's tale of being Not Quite Hollywood

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Where is this land, whose journey takes us down under the rainbow, a road less traveled and littered with comatose killers, entrepreneurial vampires,...
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Can you dig it? The Warriors come out to play-i-aaay at the New Bev, 7/19-7/20

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Playing at the New Beverly from Sunday, 7/19, to Monday, 7/20, is a double feature from one of America's pop culture cineastes, Walter Hill. Hill's...
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The strange vice of Mr. D.: The American Cinematheque talks Italian, 7/9-7/16

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Chris D., Head Programmer of The American Cinematheque talks about the Italian Grindhouse Festival playing at the...
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