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Nick Pinkerton

Bombast: Decker

By Nick Pinkerton
April 21, 2015
Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington's guileful, green screen satire of cinephile culture and the endless pop culture grist mill

Bombast: D.W. Griffith’s America

By Nick Pinkerton
April 3, 2015
Heart of the country: appraising critical reactions to The Birth of a Nation and the director's other film about rebels

Interview: James B. Harris

By Nick Pinkerton
April 3, 2015
The Kubrick producer and director of Some Call It Loving and Cop talks about lessons learned, Timothy Carey, self-deception, and Richard Pryor

Bombast: Posthumous Performance

By Nick Pinkerton
March 27, 2015
Mortality bites: a consideration of actors who died before finishing their final films

Interview: Larry Clark (Part Two)

By Nick Pinkerton
March 27, 2015
The director of Marfa Girl and The Smell of Us marvels at the improv of James Woods, blasts a prominent critic (or two), and talks Cab Calloway

Interview: Larry Clark (Part One)

By Nick Pinkerton
March 25, 2015
On the genesis of The Smell of Us, pornography, and how there's no such thing as safe search

Bombast: Notes on the Vanity Film

By Nick Pinkerton
March 13, 2015
DIY with a difference: wading into the strange and terrible waters of narcissistic film projects

Bombast: Subterranean Hot Take Blues

By Nick Pinkerton
February 27, 2015
Don’t you have to see the movie? On the practice of cultural commentary without culture

Bombast: Everywhere with Helicopter

By Nick Pinkerton
February 20, 2015
Slipping the surly bonds of Earth: a brief history of the technology and artistry behind aerial shots

Bombast: Lizabeth Scott

By Nick Pinkerton
February 13, 2015
The fall of man: the noir star of Pitfall and Too Late for Tears who was more than a pretty face or femme fatale

Bombast: 2014: The Year We Made Content

By Nick Pinkerton
January 30, 2015
Bad timing: a more considered approach to the best (and worst) of last year's films

Bombast: True Enough

By Nick Pinkerton
January 23, 2015
Honesty is the best policy: on the urge to reconcile history and fiction in American Sniper and Selma

Bombast: Holiday Tour

By Nick Pinkerton
January 9, 2015
Multiplexing across America: a look at theaters in Miami, Cincinnati, the Bronx, and Florence, Kentucky

Bombast: The Black List

By Nick Pinkerton
December 23, 2014
Inside track or well-traveled rut? The highly marketable roster of unproduced screenplays known as The Black List gets a needed dose of skepticism

Bombast: George Armitage

By Nick Pinkerton
December 5, 2014
Career criminal: a closer look at the unsung director of Miami Blues

Bombast: Carole Eastman

By Nick Pinkerton
November 21, 2014
A close look at the all-too-brief career of the woman who wrote Five Easy Pieces

Bombast: Horror Business

By Nick Pinkerton
October 31, 2014
The great possession: looking at the economics of regional American horror films, past and present

Bombast: 35, Stayin’ Alive

By Nick Pinkerton
October 24, 2014
Battle of the Film Format Stars: about medium-specific squabbling and nastiness at the New Bev

Festivals: Camden International Film Festival

By Nick Pinkerton
October 23, 2014
Little town, big pictures: on the standouts from Maine's four-day fest

Bombast: Fan Club

By Nick Pinkerton
October 17, 2014
Show 'em some love: when counterculture met the mainstream, and other horrors of fandom