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Volume 29, Issue 6 / June 2025

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  • RIP: Lalo Schifrin (1932- June 26, 2025)

    June 27th

    The great Argentine-born composer Lalo Schifrin passed away at the age of 93 on June 25, 2025. Oddly the night before I had watched Cool Hand Luke, the wonderful 1967 Paul Newman-George Kennedy prison drama that was one of the… Read more →

  • P.A. Sitney R.I.P.: 1944-June 8, 2025

    June 9th

    Saddened at the news of the passing of film critic/teacher P.A. Sitney at age 80, whose groundbreaking book Visionary Film remains the most influential book on post war American experimental cinema. Immersed in the American experimental scene of the 1950s and 1960s,… Read more →

  • Ted Kotcheff (1931-April 10, 2025)

    April 15th

    Ted Kotcheff was a stalwart Canadian film director who excelled in action, drama, and comedy.  First Blood (1987) set the template for many later post-war films that dealt with PTSD and holds up well forty odd years later. When watched… Read more →

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