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Some Updates
Once again I’ve been away from blogging for far too long. The reasons are many. For starters, I’ve been fiendishly busy over at DVD Talk, madly writing a bit less than one review per day, but it’s also...
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Mad x 4 + 43
Criterion announced today that it would be releasing an Ultra-Deluxe Blu-ray edition of It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Stanley Kramer’s gargantuan all-star comedy. I first saw it on...
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Ramu
Most of the time I function reasonably well with my admittedly pidgin Japanese, but sometimes when I’m at a shop or a restaurant the person I’m speaking to gets stuck on a particular word and hilarity...
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The Future of the Tea Party? Look to Japan
Conventional wisdom is that after the disastrous government shutdown, the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, led by Ted Cruz, would never try something so stupid and costly like that ever again. I...
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Doing the マカレナ
In my capacity as a cinema historian and writer of books about Japanese film, occasionally I’m asked to appear on a radio or television show to discuss my work. Sometime in 1996, while still living in...
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シネラマ 日本！
Like a lot of you, I’m eagerly awaiting arrival of my copies of the latest Cinerama films on Blu-ray: Cinerama Holiday (1955) and Cinerama South Seas Adventure (1958). I’ll be reviewing the latter for...
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Japan vs. Wall Street
Probably like me you are intensely frustrated that the Wall Street bankers responsible for the ruination of the American economy haven’t been prosecuted, let alone gone to jail for their incredibly...
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World Cinema Paradise
Those among you kind enough to follow this modest blog for the past few years will want to know about a new website I’ve created called World Cinema Paradise. I discuss this in more detail on the...
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Leno’s Lot
A couple of years back I wrote this piece about attending a taping of one of the very last episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. This week, another story comes to mind. When I moved to...
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A Cello Story
A while back I bought a used cello from my pal John Wells. He’d bought a newer, better one and I ended up buying his. I had played the string bass for many years, toyed with learning how to play the...
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