Thomas Burchfield
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Book and film critic at Medium, author of two novels and several short stories and screenplays.
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The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
Now Speaks the Devil|eBook
Some men are so blind, only Evil can make them see. Chip Adams may be nearing his forties, but the world looks the same as it did when he was a kid. He lives in a sheltered neighborhood in a San Fran...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
The most naive man in the world finds two million dollars in his garbage can. The most evil man in the universe wants it back. Alfred Hitchcock meets Sergio Leone in this wild darkly comic thriller about a man so blind only evil can make him see.
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my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
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December 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
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Mini-reviews of a few of the best films I've seen in the past month, including Sentimental Value, Herzog's Fata Morgana, Mr. Scorsese and others:
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Capsule Reviews: Sentimental Value, Mr. Scorsese, Train Dreams, and Some Other Gems
Brief looks at some of the best films and television, both new and old, I’ve seen in the last month.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mini-reviews of a few of the best films I've seen in the past month, including Sentimental Value, Herzog's Fata Morgana, Mr. Scorsese and others:
medium.com/fan-fare/913...
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Mini-reviews of a few of the best films I've seen in the past month, including Sentimental Value, Herzog's Fata Morgana, Mr. Scorsese and others:
medium.com/fan-fare/913...
medium.com/fan-fare/913...
Capsule Reviews: Sentimental Value, Mr. Scorsese, Train Dreams, and Some Other Gems
Brief looks at some of the best films and television, both new and old, I’ve seen in the last month.
medium.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Mini-reviews of a few of the best films I've seen in the past month, including Sentimental Value, Herzog's Fata Morgana, Mr. Scorsese and others:
medium.com/fan-fare/913...
medium.com/fan-fare/913...
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A look at James Vanderbilt's new film about the Nuremberg Trials. Happy to say, it does all right by history, for the most part.
A look at James Vanderbilt's new film about the Nuremberg Trials. Happy to say, it does all right by history, for the most part.
Cinematic Factual Fictions: Nuremberg Tells of Imperfect Men in Search of Imperfect Justice
A new factual fiction dramatizing the Nuremberg Trials does a fine job of rousing audience interest even as it makes a doubtful compromise…
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December 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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A look at James Vanderbilt's new film about the Nuremberg Trials. Happy to say, it does all right by history, for the most part.
A look at James Vanderbilt's new film about the Nuremberg Trials. Happy to say, it does all right by history, for the most part.
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The desert, with all it's thorns and spines and scarcity of water, is still a beautiful sight. #SonoranDesert #Arizona #saguaros #landscapes #photography
December 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The desert, with all it's thorns and spines and scarcity of water, is still a beautiful sight. #SonoranDesert #Arizona #saguaros #landscapes #photography
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Written in the 1990s, a road movie with its roots in The Getaway and Bonnie and Clyde. My best selling book is still packs a wallop!
Written in the 1990s, a road movie with its roots in The Getaway and Bonnie and Clyde. My best selling book is still packs a wallop!
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December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Written in the 1990s, a road movie with its roots in The Getaway and Bonnie and Clyde. My best selling book is still packs a wallop!
Written in the 1990s, a road movie with its roots in The Getaway and Bonnie and Clyde. My best selling book is still packs a wallop!
I recommend Fata Morgana (1971, on Criterion) solely for adventurous moviegoers and Werner Herzog admirers as part hallucinatory travelogue.
filming, the cinematographer was jailed as a suspected terrorist, while Herzog was jailed and beaten. I wonder if he should have told *that* story instead.
filming, the cinematographer was jailed as a suspected terrorist, while Herzog was jailed and beaten. I wonder if he should have told *that* story instead.
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I recommend Fata Morgana (1971, on Criterion) solely for adventurous moviegoers and Werner Herzog admirers as part hallucinatory travelogue.
filming, the cinematographer was jailed as a suspected terrorist, while Herzog was jailed and beaten. I wonder if he should have told *that* story instead.
filming, the cinematographer was jailed as a suspected terrorist, while Herzog was jailed and beaten. I wonder if he should have told *that* story instead.
I strongly recommend Nebraska, Alexander Payne’s melancholy 2013 comedy about mortality. It features a great performance from Bruce Dern as an old man in pursuit of one last
Dream and the funny way it comes true.
Dream and the funny way it comes true.
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I strongly recommend Nebraska, Alexander Payne’s melancholy 2013 comedy about mortality. It features a great performance from Bruce Dern as an old man in pursuit of one last
Dream and the funny way it comes true.
Dream and the funny way it comes true.
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After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
The Reading Chair: Tyranny of Tyrannies — The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
A classic of historical writing from seventy years ago is a sometimes challenging read and dates somewhat but remains as timely and urgent…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
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After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
The Reading Chair: Tyranny of Tyrannies — The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
A classic of historical writing from seventy years ago is a sometimes challenging read and dates somewhat but remains as timely and urgent…
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November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
After last night, I’m a little more hopeful we will pull back from the brink of the world depicted in this book!
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A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
The Reading Chair: Tyranny of Tyrannies — The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
A classic of historical writing from seventy years ago is a sometimes challenging read and dates somewhat but remains as timely and urgent…
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November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
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"Then I despair. . . . I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"Then I despair. . . . I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901
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A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
The Reading Chair: Tyranny of Tyrannies — The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
A classic of historical writing from seventy years ago is a sometimes challenging read and dates somewhat but remains as timely and urgent…
medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
A look at a very important work of history written fifty years ago. It's dated somewhat to be sure (besides its convuluted prose), but it hasn't lost its impact!
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Way to go, everyone! Huge turnouts from small towns to big cities all across the country!
October 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Way to go, everyone! Huge turnouts from small towns to big cities all across the country!
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🧨 The Epstein Files Are Coming: And They All Know It
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🧨 The Epstein Files Are Coming: And They All Know It
Prince Andrew stripped. Congress stalled. Virginia Giuffre’s final words. Trumpworld is in a cold sweat. This isn’t a scandal. It’s a reckoning. And there’s nowhere left to Hide.
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October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🧨 The Epstein Files Are Coming: And They All Know It
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