Mr. Peel's Sardine Liqueur

Deciphering the Code of Cinema From the Center of Los Feliz by Peter Avellino

Thursday, March 12, 2009

A Lot Of Water

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William Friedkin’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION only seems to get better as the years pass. In contrast John Frankenheimer’s less well-known 1975 f...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

A Vision Of A Vanished America

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It’s now over ten years since a new film by Michael Cimino played theaters—that was THE SUNCHASER, which barely got any sort of release as i...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

Getting Stuck With The Problem

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One night up in Westchester during the spring of 1992 a friend and I were the only audience members in attendance at the evening’s last show...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

As Long As The Roots Are Not Severed

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the films of Hal Ashby lately. Not that I haven’t done that before, but this time just feels different. This ...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Getting Even

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It’s not a title I was familiar with up until a week ago, but Alan Rudolph’s 1978 film REMEMBER MY NAME is a fascinating find, an anti-thril...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Feeling Cheap

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It’s hard for there not to be at least a little bit of mystery around a film that has never been released on video in any format, especial...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Our Universal Language

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The Oscars are over and I’m not sure what else there is to say about them. Frankly, I would have written this last night but when the show e...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009

One Of Those Long, Lingering Things

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At times a truly striking collision of cultures in plot, character and style, THE OUTSIDE MAN has to be one of the oddest yet most engaging ...
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Mr. Peel aka Peter Avellino
Los Angeles, CA, United States
I'm a writer. I live in Los Feliz. Sometimes I go to the movies. There's more to tell, but not just now.
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