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48141
... I was a bit less warm towards this. Wong Kar-Wai's trademark is there, no doubt, and as always it is great. On the other hand, it seems like he is really...
Jake Savage
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May 3, 2008
6:51 pm
48142
Have been reading Noel Vera's comments on J'accuse (Abel Gance). He thinks it's a classic. Oddly enough, he and I both liked exactly the same things about the...
Michael E. Grost
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May 3, 2008
11:58 pm
48143
... "...The Chicago Reader capsule review has Jonathan Rosenbaum praising J'accuse, and comparing its 'inventiveness' to Sam Fuller. However, he does not...
Richard Modiano
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May 4, 2008
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48144
Still haven't seen "La Roue" (Gance); will keep my eyes open for it. I did enjoy Gance's early "La Folie du Docteur Tube" (1915). Have been trying to see as...
Michael E. Grost
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May 5, 2008
2:29 am
48145
Thanks for the comments, Mike. La Roue, incidentally, is supposed to be out on DVD this month. And J'Accuse to follow this September, if I remember right. I...
Noel Vera
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May 5, 2008
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48146
... I'm not really a fan of Gance, largely I think as a response to the sheer monumentalism of his "big" works. Have never seen La Roue, so can't comment on...
david hare
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May 5, 2008
4:09 am
48147
I re-watched this film on cable over the weekend. I have a decent DVD letterboxed burn off of an IFC broadcast from a few months back, and the film runs fairly...
peterhenne
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May 5, 2008
4:49 pm
48148
I saw the same screening of Boom! It is indeed a fascinating work. It has a rich visual style. Losey follows one complex composition with another, and another....
Michael E. Grost
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May 5, 2008
10:08 pm
48149
Great post, Peter! I adore BOOM! and got to see a lovely print of it a few years ago. It's easily my favorite film/TV adaptation of my beloved Tennessee ...
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May 5, 2008
10:37 pm
48150
I recently caught up with it, and I can't say that I liked it very much -- certainly it pales in comparison's to Lean's "Great Expectation," or for that...
Rick
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May 7, 2008
1:42 pm
48151
Here are my entries on the Jeonju film festival in case anyone's interested. There are posts on Alexander Kluge, Val Lewton, Hong Sangsoo, and Bela Tarr. ...
Marc Raymond
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May 9, 2008
3:21 am
48152
In "Hitchcock's Romantic Irony", Richard Allen eloquently writes: "Vertigo is the supreme illustration of Hitchcock's aestheticism... Is Vertigo a film about a...
minas_vertigo
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May 9, 2008
12:22 pm
48153
5O years passed since Alfred Hitchcock's Supreme Masterpiece premiered in San Fransisco on May 9, 1958!...
minas_vertigo
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May 9, 2008
12:23 pm
48154
The following paragraphs contain SPOILERS in regards to not only Redbelt, but also previous Mamet features (i.e., Heist and Spartan). Discretion is advised. ...
livullmannfan
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May 12, 2008
9:21 am
48155
... premiered ... The New York Times observed this anniversary yesterday with a Terrence Rafferty piece (is this keyed to some sort of reissue?) which states ...
jess_l_amortell
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May 12, 2008
2:40 pm
48156
... "With the release of Redbelt, Mamet's core theme of identity has finally come full circle..." From your thematic analysis it would appear that REDBELT was...
Richard Modiano
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May 12, 2008
7:31 pm
48157
On page 228 of John Russell Taylor's *Strangers in Paradise* (London: Faber and Faber, 1983), he wrote that Jean Renoir, unhappy with a preview screening of...
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May 13, 2008
2:38 pm
48158
It's likely TR means 'brilliant' to reflect the character of the colors rather than as a value judgement on the restoration, though one might also consider it...
Dave McDougall
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May 13, 2008
3:15 pm
48159
... Terrence ... out ... irony ... It seems that the Robert Harris restoration circus has now erected its tent over THE GODFATHER (admittedly a much less...
thebradstevens
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May 13, 2008
10:48 pm
48160
Why do we do so much of the former and so little of the latter? is it cuz we still have loads of frankfurt school meets t.s. eliot great tradition of bullshit...
jlmartinezmcgough
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May 14, 2008
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48161
... I'm sorry but I don't get this. 1) Are "Film Criticism and Interpretation" and "Film Appreciation" wholly different things? In my own practice of them I...
Blake Lucas
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May 14, 2008
5:16 am
48162
I must say that the irony for me personally is that the "brilliant restoration" means that I probably won't see VERTIGO for its 50 year celebration. I deeply...
Blake Lucas
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May 14, 2008
5:22 am
48163
I agree with Blake here, if criticism and interpretation are done well they are also appreciation. But it is true that works that are only about appreciation...
Marc Raymond
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May 14, 2008
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48164
... year ... to ... often ... restoration" ... original ... and ... it, ... I haven't actually seen it, but I understand that the VERTIGO disc contained in the...
thebradstevens
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May 14, 2008
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48165
... lot ... several ... Thanks, Brad. I didn't know about that option of the "mono soundtrack." Sounds watchable enough. I guess the older commercial VHS is...
Blake Lucas
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May 14, 2008
5:17 pm
48166
Personally, I think that Mamet's cinematic works are about as fascist as the those of Peckinpah. Which is to say, not really. Granted, this is strictly my...
livullmannfan
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May 14, 2008
9:35 pm
48168
... I think we've allowed ourselves to become far too esoteric thanks to the former. T. S. Eliot was 1) a depressed pompous sophist and 2) precisely...
jlmartinezmcgough
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May 15, 2008
12:27 pm
48169
... I don't know who you are, but the tone of this post suggests you are something of a troll. For starters, how you get from "Tradition and the Individual...
Bilge Ebiri
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May 15, 2008
2:45 pm
48170
Is this supposed to be a useful response? Why not make an argument if you have one? If you don't have an argument, of what value are statements like these? ...
Jack Angstreich
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May 15, 2008
3:35 pm
48171
... <jirimenzel@> ... is it ... great ... Appreciation" ... them ... think I ... and ... me and ... the most ... about ... I won't argue with this nonsense,...
Blake Lucas
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May 15, 2008
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