Author Archives: Bob Hill

Esteemed Writer/Director Nicolas Winding Refn would like you to know something: The strong-silent type – arguably the most identifiable of all American archetypes – was originally the expressed province of the East. Assuming Refn is to be believed, that archetype … Read More … Read More

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At some point a few years back, independent studios experienced a major run on holocaust documentaries. The angles were almost always left-of-center – stock footage from the Warsaw Ghetto, previously undisclosed testimony from the Nuremberg trials, the plight of Polish … Read More … Read More

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“People who work at counters and make you wait while they answer the telephone, privileging the customer on the phone over the one right in front of their face, the one who made the trip, got out of bed, appeared … Read More

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“‘The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one.’ … The man who first said that was probably a coward. He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps 2,000 deaths if … Read More

“Sorry, I seem to have stepped out for a bit. Feel free to make yourself at home; have a look about the place. I’ll be back in a jiffy. Toodaloo.”

We’ve all played the word association game when it comes to Asbury Park, New Jersey. There’s Springsteen and The Stone Pony and that one episode of The Sopranos where Tony winds up talking to the fish. But the beautiful thing … Read More

“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, … Read More