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Alissa Wilkinson

@alissamarie

Movie critic @nytimes. Author of “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine" (2025) and "Salty" (2022)

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linkhttps://www.nytimes.com/by/alissa-wilkinson calendar_today21-02-2007 20:42:50

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This week’s documentary column gave me the excuse to write, if briefly, about one of my favorite topics: janky midcentury US cultural policy

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my punishment for my upgraded Cannes badge status is getting stuck in the second row of every screening, which my poor little brain hates profoundly

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I sat down for a pint at a bar in Cannes and within two minutes, the gentlemen on either side of me had asked what the English words for “tomb” and “anesthesia” were, separately. What am I to make of this

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Sometimes I wonder what would happen if everyone fully realized Josh O’Connor learned Italian for La Chimera, a movie in which he acts … fully in Italian

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After a decade of complaining about cocktails in Paris, I now have two different bars to recommend with drinks that didn’t exist a century ago

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