Djuna Barnes, “Alla Nazimova”

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Sanford Schwartz on the “emotional rightness and believability” of Pauline Kael’s film criticism

David Bordwell pays homage to the “daredevil criticism” of four pioneering film writers

Robert Polito: The one-of-a-kind “film investigations” of Manny Farber