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2006 Stories by John Patterson

• Well, Helloooo There

  published December 21, 2006

  Ask any Briton over 40 what he knows about Leslie Phillips and chances are he will simply purr the greeting “Helloooo,” in... More >>

• Of James Bondage

  published November 23, 2006

  As it often does when interest lags or a new 007 is inaugurated, the Bond franchise is once again getting back to its roots. The first time... More >>

• Best Landlocked Treasure Island

  published October 5, 2006

  {mosimage}Lodged between the busy shipping lanes of Los Feliz Boulevard to the north and Glendale Boulevard to the south, and hidden from... More >>

• Yeah, Baby! Yeah!

  published July 20, 2006

  It’s been a full seven years since the American Cinematheque first unveiled its annual cornucopia of shagedelic delights known as the... More >>

• Cisco Pike & Two-Lane Blacktop

  published July 13, 2006

  Two minor masterpieces carved from the bitter husk of the 1960s make up this superb double bill — both of them shot in 1970-71, one... More >>

• Crimson Joy

  published June 8, 2006

  As Gore Vidal once sagely noted, the trouble with golden ages is that there’s always some spoilsport around to point out that, in... More >>

• The Word and the Image: The Films of Peter Whitehead

  published April 20, 2006

  Novelist, filmmaker, falconer, self-pro­fessed shaman and grizzled survivor of that parallel universe called Swinging London, Peter... More >>

• The Fallen Idol

  published April 6, 2006

  Graham Greene went to his grave justifiably disappointed in the many movie adaptations derived from his novels. One of the fascinating... More >>

• Phantom India

  published March 16, 2006

  In 1967, Louis Malle was commissioned by France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a series of films about India. Having planned only... More >>

• Histoire(s) Du Cinema

  published February 9, 2006

  Arriving in the U.S. nearly a decade after its completion, Jean-Luc Godard’s monumental six-part essay film–cum–incantatory... More >>