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Peter Tonguette

Peter Tonguette

Wall Street Journal

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How Stanley Kubrick directed his reputation

22.03.2024 5

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Stop watching the skies: The UFO craze has its downsides in...

22.03.2024 9

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Why Haley lost: Republicans aren’t in the mood for civility

08.03.2024 5

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Eric Rohmer’s slow films are paced just right

23.02.2024 30

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Peter Tonguette

Leading light-haired ladies

26.01.2024 5

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

The Trump ballot question

12.01.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Dick Cavett: The last of the great conversationalists

We don’t know how to talk to each other these days, and that includes those who are paid to do the talking. The current generation of late-night...

05.01.2024 3

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

If only The Killer were silent

In a country in which individualism sometimes seems to blot out all other values, it was perhaps inevitable that our movie screens were for so long...

17.11.2023 10

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Child stars provide movies with something irreplaceable and have something irreplaceable robbed from them

“Even when we were kids, the term ‘child actor’ was shorthand for ‘future f---ed up adult,’” wrote actor Clint Howard, the rare child star...

03.11.2023 3

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Gay Talese's fanfare for the common man

Gay Talese wears a fedora. He also wears a three-piece suit, a pocket square, and very often a rather grand scarf. Sometimes, it seems as though he is...

27.10.2023 7

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Larry McMurtry was right about everything except his own greatness

Once, the great American novelists were synonymous with particular places in this large, unruly, complicated country, like landmarks on a map. Philip...

20.10.2023 6

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

Reviewed: William Friedkin’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

The great American filmmaker William Friedkin made movies about a police officer whose methods were scarcely discernible from criminals (The French...

06.10.2023 4

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

The paranoid style in liberal criticism

Depending on who you listen to, hang out with, or read, a hit summer movie about saving kidnapped children is laced with QAnon references, the video...

29.09.2023 5

Washington Examiner

Peter Tonguette

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