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 "The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This is a web site built around original video essays and critical, personal writing about movies, TV, music, comics and whatever else interests its contributors. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is published by Seitz and Cancelosi and overseen by editor-in-chief Kevin B. Lee and managing editor Max Winter.

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Clint Abides: TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

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In one of his great essays about baseball, the late A. Bartlett Giamatti famously called the game “our best invention to stay change.” Giamatti (who, besides being president of Yale University, was briefly commissioner of Major League Baseball) added, “I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.”
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  • By Peter Tonguette
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  • September 28, 2012 8:21 AM
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In Defense of UNFORGIVEN's Little Bill Daggett

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"Unforgiven," Clint Eastwood’s final western, offers a stirring rebuke to the genre he has done more to popularize than perhaps any actor or director.
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  • By Mark Greenbaum
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  • April 12, 2012 1:00 PM
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VIDEO ESSAY: Clint Eastwood and His Iconic Side View Profile

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The craggy complexion. The stately ovate chin. Those thin lips deceptively wrapped around that charming smile. That perfect nose. Those clear greenish-brown eyes. That squint.
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  • April 12, 2012 12:30 PM
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