Matthew Cheney
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They Know Not What They Do: BURN AFTER READING
"Burn After Reading" is a film about containment and knowledge, or, to put it another way, a tale of wars against chaos. Necessarily, it is a farce.
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VIDEO ESSAY: The End of Violence: The Conclusions of Clint Eastwood
It took me years to learn how to watch a Clint Eastwood movie. For one thing, I tended to watch them far apart and to rely on memory of earlier films to prepare myself for current ones. But given the gaps in time between viewings, I should have been more suspicious of how I remembered them.
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The Mystery of Werner Herzog: Two Video Essays and One Text Essay
One of the most revealing statements in the book "Herzog on Herzog" appears early on, when Werner Herzog tells interviewer Paul Cronin that from the time he was a young child he has suffered a particular "communication defect": he has no sense of irony.
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