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Nick Pinkerton

Bombast: This Print Could Be Your Life

By Nick Pinkerton
May 16, 2014
A polemic on why the decision to "just stream it later" is destroying film culture

Bombast: Revenge

By Nick Pinkerton
May 9, 2014
Cinema's everlasting love affair with people mercilessly tracking down and murdering the ones that wronged them

Bombast: Boyhood

By Nick Pinkerton
May 1, 2014
This boy's life, from Norman Rockwell to Little Fugitive to Captain America

Bombast: The Afghan Whigs

By Nick Pinkerton
April 25, 2014
Sub genius: a consideration of one band's cinematic unself-consciousness

Bombast: Rebirth

By Nick Pinkerton
April 18, 2014
The inimitable column returns with an immodest proposal for clicktastic cinephilia

Interview: Thelma Schoonmaker

By Nick Pinkerton
March 31, 2014
Final cut pro: the three-time Academy Award–winning editor explains the secrets of her trade

Futures & Pasts: Wild Things

By Nick Pinkerton
March 28, 2014
Wicked game: the twists and turns of John McNaughton’s 1998 erotic thriller

Futures & Pasts: The Bowery & Gangs of New York

By Nick Pinkerton
March 21, 2014
Raoul Walsh and Martin Scorsese's visions of the Gay Nineties and its dark underbelly

Futures & Pasts: Barabbas

By Nick Pinkerton
March 11, 2014
Haunted: Richard Fleischer's unsung Biblical story of the criminal pardoned instead of Jesus marks a high point in the versatile studio filmmaker's output

Futures & Pasts: Darkman and The Shadow

By Nick Pinkerton
February 28, 2014
Paper tigers: two unabashedly cartoonish superhero films from the early Nineties

Futures & Pasts: The Carey Treatment

By Nick Pinkerton
February 20, 2014
On the pleasures of Blake Edwards's low-budget Michael Crichton adaptation

Futures & Pasts: Trans-Europ-Express

By Nick Pinkerton
February 14, 2014
Robbe-Grillet's S&M-filled, Nouveau Roman metacinema classic gets its due

Interview: Claire Denis

By Nick Pinkerton
October 10, 2013
The French auteur discusses Bastards, family, and Faulkner

Rep Diary: Robert Aldrich and Burt Lancaster

By Nick Pinkerton
May 31, 2013
Behind the über-masculine collaboration that spawned a ferocious history of the West in Apache, Vera Cruz, and Ulzana’s Raid