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Melissa Anderson

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As seen in: Film Comment Magazine, Financial Times, Slate, Metacritic, Newsday, Télé Loisirs, The Village Voice, Notebook, Dallas Observer, Miami New Times, EIN News and
Columnist and contributing editor, @FilmComment. Author of Inland Empire @firefliespress and The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012–2024 @TheFilmDesk.

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Seeing Stars: Ronee Blakley

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Seeing Stars Introducing a new column that delves into the career of a cinema luminary, past or present Ronee Blakley in Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975). Courtesy of Janus Films. Cage matches, crypto cons, algae blooms, and other putrid grotesqueries will stand as the definitive emblems of our sick republic’s celebration of its quarter millennium. If the commemorations marking the nation’s bicentennial weren’t as squalid, many nonetheless indulged in queasy-making sentimentality.
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Drunken Noodles

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Drunken Noodles Melissa Anderson A river of bodily emissions runs through it: in Lucio Castro’s new film, the flow of erotic energy proves to be a mystical power. Laith Khalifeh as Adnan in Drunken Noodles. Courtesy Strand Releasing. © Lucio Castro. Drunken Noodles, written and directed by Lucio Castro, now playing at IFC Center, 323 Sixth Avenue, New York City •   •   • Gay is good, as the old slogan has it, and sometimes gay is serendipitous.
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Aloïse

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Aloïse Melissa Anderson Rising star Isabelle Huppert and Delphine Seyrig at her peak deliver impressive performances as a Swiss outsider artist in Liliane de Kermadec’s elliptical 1975 film. Isabelle Huppert as young Aloïse in Aloïse. Courtesy Several Futures.
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