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On the Traces of Roger Tailleur (opens the original)
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Introduction. Who speaks today of the film critic Roger Tailleur (1927-1985)? There are many admirers of his work still around, but it’s sadly unlikely that (in contrast to, say, Serge Daney’s current reputation) it will ever be ‘taken up’ vigorously as a newly inspiring roadmap through the situations and problems of criticism in the 21st century. Tailleur is a figure shrouded, now, by his time: his writing was measured, wise, modestly pitched, largely non-theoretical (while based on impeccable
Notes on Recent Fiction Reading (opens the original)
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There is a recurring form in what I will henceforth pompously label ‘contemporary fiction’ – i.e., a bunch of fairly recent, unsystematically chosen novels I happen to have read – that bothers me. I call it – a little bit ‘normatively’, it’s true – the two-act problem. Actually, it’s more like a two-tier or two-level problem. I am referring to novels including Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake and Daniel Falatko’s The Wayback Machine (which, for the first 20 or so pages, I was ready to hail among
Alain Resnais’ Recommended Video Collection (1995) (opens the original)
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Introduction. “30,000 catalogued titles … The time when it was possible to see every film is well and truly over!” So speaks Alain Resnais. And, in his view, this abundance signals the art form’s newfound maturity. He continues: “Video has revolutionised the way we approach cinema. A new market has been created, prompting producers to delve into their archives. Negatives and prints presumed lost have been found. The real mark of difference is that today, people no longer talk about old films; ra
Defining Moments in Movies (Part 3 of 4) (opens the original)
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For the Introduction to this series see Part 1. All texts below are my original manuscript versions of material commissioned for the book Defining Moments in Movies (2007). Even when my website www.adrianmartinfilmcritic.com covers the same titles, the content here is different. Read more
Four New Non-Fiction Books (opens the original)
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There’s no two ways about this, so I’m calling it already: American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda (OR Books) by Ru Marshall is the absolute greatest book of 2026. It is, by any reckoning, an awesome achievement, and it makes for totally compulsive reading. Marshall does many things in this book, and he does all of them well. On a first level, it’s a detailed exposé of Castaneda – who started out, in his university years, as a writer of fake books about shamanism (fake because t
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