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From Stephen Elliott
“She had big brown eyes, long eyelashes, and a light brown mane and tail. It may not seem possible but I saw a shy smile on her lips. She tried to make believe that she didn’t notice me.”
At BOMB, an illustrated short story about a man falling in love with a horse, by artist Myron Kaufman. The story, Horse Scents, and its author, are introduced by filmmaker Charlie Kaufman, Myron Kaufman’s son.
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What follows is the introduction to Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script, by Charlie Kaufman:
One of the most powerful scenes in Charlie Kaufman’s Synechdoche New York, the priest’s monologue, was written the day before shooting and is therefore not in the script. We tracked down the full text.
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These movies pass through our lives, take up two hours of our time, and go along their merry way. Recently I enjoyed Preston Sturges’s The Lady Eve, Orson Welles’s masterful Touch of Evil, and a collection of Pixar shorts.
Introduction
I think the best criteria for judging the quality of a film is whether you’re still thinking about it a week after you watched it. Then there are those films we return to in our thoughts time and time again over the course of years.
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