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Hilton Als on Memory, Misremembered (2013)

“The wall surrounding memory misremembered is clean and wide and high, similar in effect to the wall one finds in certain airports in other countries, clean and wide and high like that, banking in or letting go those who want … Read More

IFB’s Top 10 Posts of 2013

IFB Presents: 7 Classic Springsteen Stories That Are Well Worth Mass Retelling 19 Reasons Why 6 Souls Is The Absolute Worst Movie Julianne Moore Has Ever Agreed To Be a Part Of Moving On: The Year of Losing Dangerously IFB … Read More

Good Pictures/Bad Camera: The Very Best of 2013

(All 2013 images taken with a Canon PowerShot A1300 digital camera.) (Good Pictures/Bad Camera is a regular feature on IFB.)

Moving On: The Year of Losing Dangerously

Today I am two years sober. I am also one year out of a job, nine months without benefits, three months off probation, and two weeks from the cut-off of my unemployment. Given the circumstances, it might be easy to … Read MoreRead More

Which ‘American Hustle’ Cast Members Should – And Will – Be Nominated For An Academy Award?

David O. Russell’s American Hustle is an incredibly likable film that moves so quickly one seldom notices the lapses. By lapses I mean the fact Russell’s film is so loosely based on historical record it actually borders on absurd. How … Read MoreRead More

David Simon on The Great American Horror Story – Marxism Vs. Capitalism (2013)

“In my country you’re seeing a horror show. You’re seeing a retrenchment in terms of family income, you’re seeing the abandonment of basic services, such as public education, functional public education. You’re seeing the underclass hunted through an alleged war … Read More

Christmas, Doors & Windows

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Film Capsule: Inside Llewyn Davis

At some point during the opening third of Bob Dylan’s autobiography, Chronicles, he describes Greenwich Village during the winter of 1961 as follows: “T.S. Eliot wrote a poem once where there were people walking to a fro, and everybody taking … Read MoreRead More

James Agee on Home (1955)

“How far we all come. How far we all come away from ourselves. So far, so much between, you can never go home again. You can go home, it’s good to go home, but you never really get all the … Read More