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Last Year at Graceland: The Story Behind Elvis Presley’s Lost Film Actual listing from the Turner Classic Movies website, August 16, 2002: “3:00 PM – TICKLE ME/1965 A wealthy man tries to convince a bored socialite that they had an affair years earlier. Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff. D: Alain Resnais. C-91m.” In the [...]

[originally published on Robert Horton's blog The Crop Duster on March 1, 2009] “I’ll be back,” the man calls out, “when it’s dark.” Those words are the warning, and the credo, of every monster that ever slouched through fairy tale or film. Toward the end of The Night of the Hunter, they are uttered by [...]

The reading of the Oscar nominations marks the unofficial (and long overdue) end to the season of Top Ten lists and year-in-review pieces and various awards bestowed by every group who wants to add their stamp to the passports of Oscar hopefuls. So as a postscript, I gather a few lists and remarks from Parallax [...]

Press release Winners Announced in 2004 Seattle Film Critics Awards Forget about a recount! There will be no manual tally, no divining of intent, no lost ballots “discovered” behind the polling booth. The Seattle Film Critics have determined in no uncertain terms (okay, there is one tie) their choices for the best films of 2004. [...]

Press release Winners Announced in Second Annual Seattle Film Critics Awards December 18, 2003 Jack Valenti be damned! The second annual Seattle Film Critics Awards are here, despite Hollywood’s notorious ban on screeners. Fourteen of the most prominent print critics from the Puget Sound area have voted on the best in the film year, perhaps [...]

Press release Winners Announced in First Annual Seattle Film Critics Awards December 19, 2002 Alarmed by the dearth of year-end movie awards, the film critics of the Puget Sound area have raised their voices in unison for the first time. Twenty-four of the area’s top critics have been polled for the first annual Seattle Film [...]